Win $500 – Spring Fling contest update

Gydget’s Top 10 most-grabbed contest is heating up, with a little more than two weeks to go.

These bands/organizations are in the running to win one of our contests ($500 for the most-grabbed gydget in May/June, $500 for the most-grabbed new gydget and $500 for the most-grabbed new indie gydget):

* Affliction Banned	* Ani DiFranco
* Bayside	* Beyonce
* Burton Cummings	* Chevelle
* DeVotchKa	* John 5
* DWELE	* Lacuna Coil
* Lil Wayne	* Melvins
* Mindless Self Indulgence	* PROZAK
* Ray J	* Scotty Vanity
* TECH N9NE	* The Cult
* Train	* Woof! Think About It (PETA2)

Even if you’re not on the list above, there is still time left to win the contest since it is measured weekly! See www.gydget.com/newsletters/2008-05-07

To get more grabs and increase your chances to win, please bulletin your fans as much as you can (just login and use the bulletin code on your gydget.com promote page). Check out other ideas to increase your grabs in the link above.

FanSpace, our MySpace App Has Launched!

This morning we publicly launched FanSpace on MySpace. FanSpace enables fans to more easily discover, display and share artist and team widgets across MySpace, thus increasing exposure and driving ticket, music, ringtone and merchandise sales – see example screenshot at right. To see a live example, click here. FanSpace is a communications platform for bands and sports teams looking to engage fans on MySpace. Built specifically for the MySpace platform, FanSpace incorporates the best viral features of the platform to ensure that music fans can easily discover and share media and information-rich fan widgets, or gydgets, with their friends. When bands create a free gydget on Gydget.com and add it to their profile page it is automatically included in the FanSpace gallery for fan discovery. Fans can collect all their favorite band gydgets on FanSpace so they and their friends always have access to their favorite music, videos and tour news.  See the press release here.