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