Songwritr.com – pitching 2.0 for the creative industries

I’ve thinking about a web application for songwriters. Something that could ease the process of finding songwriters, pitching songs to record companies and collaborating.

One option is to design a full web app from the ground up and try to get everyone to use it. The alternative is to create a lightweight framework that uses a load of existing services and integrates with all the existing social media apps. Songwriters need to use every network they have to get songs into the right hands, and most aren’t the best natural marketers.

So Songwritr.com would work mostly for the songwriter, allowing him/her to collaborate with other songwriters using easy mp3 sharing (and maybe more – session files?), easily create attractive pages to pitch songs and a public profile that would allow song hunters to audition loads of songs by different writers on one site.

On the industry side (maybe industry would have to pay to search?), the database of songs could be tagged, reviewed, rated, favourited and featured. Leads could be posted for songwriters to respond to directly. In theory this could be a service that the songwriters pay for (like Songlink), but I think keeping the service free for songwriters is important.

Are there any simalar sites for other creative industries? I saw a site recently for film/TV composers that had a peer-review barrier to entry. I’m sure there are more (including lots of offline directories, email lists and older listing style sites). But pitching for creative work is all about networks, and I don’t think anybody has yet really made the most of the existing social networking apps.

Of course, somebody already has the domain, but you have to start somewhere, right?

Tagged with: social media, songwriting, web apps

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