<h1>MLP Forums Advertising Program</h1>
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<h2>What does Pony.fm want from musicians?</h2>
<p>Want <em>from</em> probably isn't the best way to put it. Pony.fm
wants
to provide brony musicians with the best package of services for hosting
their music. We also want to provide musicians with free advertising
space right on the homepage of
<a href="https://mlpforums.com/" title="MLP Forums" target="_blank">MLP
Forums</a>
to be seen by its userbase of
over 32,000 registered members. And we want to provide your listeners
with the best experience to listen to your music. All we ask in exchange
is for musicians to use Pony.fm as their home base of sorts for their
music hosting needs. We understand musicians want to continue to upload
their music to a wide array of music hosting sites, and we can respect
that. All we ask is that you use your Pony.fm link any time you send
someone to download or listen to a song.</p>
<p><strong>Sound like an interesting proposal? Then read on!</strong></p>
<h2>Why should I host my music on Pony.fm?</h2>
<p>We understand brony musicians have a lot of choices when it comes to
where to host their music. But Pony.fm is engineered specifically to be
the best site for <em>My Little Pony</em> fan music!</p>
<p>But why, specifically, should you choose Pony.fm? The better question
is: why wouldn't you?</p>
<p>Pony.fm exclusively hosts <em>My Little Pony</em> fan content! Ask
yourself, how
exactly would a user with no knowledge of your music find you from the
SoundCloud or Bandcamp homepage? A search for Pony music will yield
thousands of unspecific results. A genre search will fill the page with
music unrelated to bronies. Unless the user is looking for your song
specifically, it's difficult for them to find it.</p>
<p>Pony.fm addresses this problem by removing the non-brony music from the
equation entirely, allowing users to search for genres, styles, or even
specify a specific show song they want to hear a remix of and get
nothing but relevant results. This means Pony.fm's listeners spend less
time searching for your music and more time listening to it!</p>
<p>Pony.fm also proides you with features that sites like SoundCloud and
Bandcamp don't. With Pony.fm, you can offer streaming and unlimited
downloads. You'll never run out of free downloads again!</p>
<p>Other artists have turned to file sharing sites for music downloads due
to the limitations of sites like SoundCloud, but because of the risks of
unknown downloads, many users simply will not trust links to file
sharing sites. File sharing sites also have limitations. Since they host
specific files, you're forced to provide an additional upload and
link
for every individual file type and quality you want to offer listeners.
These sites are also designed only for linking to files from an external
site, eliminating any chance that users will find your music through the
file sharing site itself. On Pony.fm your listeners will be exposed to
your branding, your music, your tags, and much more allowing you to get
the most out of every valuable click to your download.</p>
<p>Sites like YouTube aren't designed to be used as music hosting sites,
playing significantly reduced quality lossy audio files to allow for the
bandwidth of the video. Pony.fm, however, is designed for music,
providing high quality music streams to your listeners.
<strong>Pony.fm is all around the best balance of features designed
specifically for brony musicians.</strong></p>
<p>Beyond everything else, using Pony.fm brings you into the Poniverse
supercommunity! Not only will users be able to give you valuable
feedback right on Pony.fm's comment system, but with one login, you'll
unlock all the features of the Poniverse network. Want to show off your
music to MLP Forum's 32,000+ members? How would you like to get tips
and
tricks from fellow musicians in our Creative Resources area? Or would
you just like to relax and spend some time talking about your favorite
episode? Want to host a live-stream on Equestria.tv? All of that and
much more is possible when you unlock the power of your Poniverse login!
<strong>With Poniverse, Pony.fm isn't just a music hosting or
download
site -
it's a community made for bronies, by bronies!</strong></p>
<h2>All right, I get it; it's got some nice features. I'll upload
some
songs. But what's this about linking to my songs on Pony.fm? Why
should
I?</h2>
<p>So you want more than just great features? We respect that, because we
want more, too. Pony.fm already houses the largest collection of brony
music on the planet as the official host of the MLP Music Archive, but
we want to bring Pony.fm to the next level as the go-to place for people
to find and post music in this fandom, and we need your support as a
musician to do it!</p>
<p>Every time you post a download link on YouTube or share a link to a song
on Twitter, Facebook, or any other site, you're deciding which
experience you want to give your listeners. We think Pony.fm provides
the best experience for bronies to listen to fan music and we want you
to share in that belief!</p>
<p>So we're offering a special incentive to those that go the extra mile
and help share Pony.fm with the community by using the Pony.fm link to
their song whenever possible! <strong>We're <em>giving</em> you a
banner
ad right smack
on the front page of Poniverse's largest site for absolutely
free.</strong></p>
<p><em>Why?</em> Because we want the members of MLP Forums to listen to your
music
on Pony.fm just as bad as you do! That advertisement to your music is
also an advertisement to try Pony.fm, so it benefits everybody involved!
You get users being sent directly to your music page on Pony.fm, we get
new users checking out Pony.fm that are interested in your music, and
the listener gets an awesome new site to find pony tunes on!</p>
<h2>Okay… that's cool. I'm in! What do I need to do?</h2>
<p>It's super simple!</p>
<ol>
<li><a href="/account/uploader" target="_blank">Upload your music to
Pony.fm.</a></li>
<li>If you've previously linked to song downloads to SoundCloud,
Bandcamp,
or a file sharing service in the description of YouTube videos,
consider
switching those links over to Pony.fm to ensure the best possible
experience for your listeners!
</li>
<li>
<p>Once it's uploaded, fill out <a
href="https://goo.gl/forms/hmTUVjKNJj" target="_blank">this
form</a>. This gets the
ball rolling on
getting you free advertising. To further expedite the process of
getting
you ad-space, include a 540x200 image for your advertisement
like
this one:</p>
<p class="text-center"><img
src="https://mlpforums.com/uploads/referral-0017832001448500924.gif">
</p>
<p>Note: the ad will be scaled down to 270x100 pixels
when displayed on MLP Forums).</p>
</li>
<li>Wait for a reply! We'll review your application and get back to
you
as
soon as possible with confirmation that you'll be included in
the
program and more details! If you didn't provide an advertisement
or
if
there are any issues with your advertisement image, we'll help
you
get
one ready to go at this stage!
</li>
<li>Once your advertisement is up, start using your Pony.fm links
anywhere
you link to a song!
</li>
</ol>
<h2>I've got to admit it sounds neat, but I'm skeptical. Who can I
contact
for more information or answers to my questions?</h2>
<p>Just shoot a message to Poniverse's Head of Public Relations, Simon,
at
<a href="mailto:simon@poniverse.net"
target="_blank">simon@poniverse.net</a> and he'll
be happy to answer any questions you have about Pony.fm and the
advertising deal offered here!</p>
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