We really enjoy to run competitions, and you seem to do too!
So, we are announcing a new contest is now open: it’s White Fender 2012 and on this we are giving away more prizes, we have a white Fender Stratocaster for the 1st place and then three Soundcloud Premium accounts for the next positions.
Don’t miss this chance because this will be the last Fender contest for a while!
The first competition of 2012 has its winner, it’s Marco Mangraviti that has received more comments than any other. His top score has been followed by Bence Koczka, Yosif Bambin, Lost Brand, Piero Furlan, Piotrek Wojnar and many more thounders.
Marco is receiving a black Fender Stratocaster guitar, that he can’t wait to show off on stage with his band.
We are happy to announce Alessandro Donadei is the winner of the XMAS competition on Facebook!
The competition ended at midnight of the 6th January, counting nearly one hundred tracks recorded with our Facebook app and amongst the ten most liked, Alessandro resulted to be the thounder with more friends (317 at the time of closing) followed by Mateus Oppeln (174), David (156), Giuseppe Antonio Mazza (83), Francisco Manzano Garcia (64), etc
Alessandro is receiving a red Fender Stratocaster guitar, that will help him to record many other thounds.
Time to meet our promise: more Fender guitars for you thounders!
Last Fender contest has been such a success, it started in November and finished after 4 weeks and thousands new users who joined our community, we have been so excited we have bought another Fender guitar for you and there you go.
The rules are always the easiest:
Record a new thound from the contest page (link below)
Get all of your friends to comment that thound
Win a black Fender Stratocaster if you score the highest amount of users that commented
General rules:
Comments will be counted as from unique users.
You can apply with as many thounds as you want.
In case of even amount of comments the earlier recorded thound will win.
Thounds users who already won a prize during 2011 are not eligible
Thounds.com can suspend users with suspicious activity if no valid answers are given upon request
We will ship everywhere in the world for free.
You have time until Wednesday 18th January 2012 23:59 CET
Following server downtime during the weekend we asked our community to decide whether to give two more days or not and they have decided for more time, so:
You have time until Friday 2nd December 2011 23:59 CET
It’s raining today and makes it not very happy then, so we thought it was a good idea to cheer you up and start a new contest to give one Fender Stratocaster away.
The rules are the easiest:
Record a new thound, choose a nice title and type in the tag #fender1111 when prompted
Get all of your friends to comment that thound
Win the blue Fender Stratocaster if you scored the highest amount of users that commented
Comments will be count as from unique users.
You can apply with as many thounds as you want.
In case of even amount of comments the earlier recorded thound will win.
We will ship everywhere in the world for free.
You have time until Wednesday 30th November 2011 17:00 CET
UPDATED
Following server downtime during the weekend we asked our community to decide whether to give two more days or not and they have decided for more time, so:
You have time until Friday 2nd December 2011 23:59 CET
We are happy to confirm Thounds is joining two panels at the second Future Music Forum Barcelona!
The forum is at the second edition and will take place at the Museu D’art Contemporani De Barcelona, MACBA on the 22nd and 23rd September.
Leading minds in the world of online and mobile music will talk how music is being shared in todays digital age, discuss new developments in music technology and how to monetize these activities.
We are joining “Entrepreneurs In The Digital Music Age” and “Music and Social Media” panels, both on the first day.
More interesting panels on the agenda include “Music and Social Gaming” and “New Earning Models For The Music Industry” amongst others.
More details and schedule at links belows.
And finally we are announcing who won our first and much followed Spring contest: congratulations to the Belettes from Lille in France!
This is the winning track! Visit The Belettes page on Thounds
Some random quotes from the jury about the winning track: “The guitar riffs are great, reminds of Foals. Nice and tight.”
“A great potential player, I’d say.”
“Spring Break is a remarkably confident, often troubling debut that excels at both forward-thinking and good old-fashioned music.”