Thounds gives you a Fender Stratocaster and Soundcloud Premium accounts

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!

What do you have to do to win?

  1. Like and share on your Facebook wall/timeline this page:
    http://www.facebook.com/thounds
  2. Record a new thound from the contest page
  3. Get all of your friends to comment that thound
  4. Most commented thound wins a Fender Stratocaster, 2nd/3rd/4th most commented win a Souncloud Premium account each

General rules:

  • Comments will be counted as from unique users.
  • There is a daily limit to 20 comments only for the first six days
  • You can apply with as many thounds as you want
  • You can win only one prize in this contest
  • In case of even amount of comments the earlier recorded thound will win.
  • Thounds users who already won a prize in the past 12 months are not eligible
  • Thounds.com can suspend users with suspicious activity or causing inconveniences

We will ship the guitar everywhere in the world for free.

You have time until Wednesday 8th February 2012 23:59 CET

http://thounds.com/contests/whitefender2012

Winner for the XMAS competition

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.

Listen to all the thounds that have been submitted:
http://thounds.com/contests/fenderfirst2012

The winner for the XMAS contest is…
January 10th, 2012
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Winner for the XMAS competition

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.

Don’t miss another chance to win a guitar, join the current competition on:
http://thounds.com/contests/fenderfirst2012

First Fender contest of 2012 now online
December 30th, 2011
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Win a Fender guitar with 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:

  1. Record a new thound from the contest page (link below)
  2. Get all of your friends to comment that thound
  3. 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

http://thounds.com/contests/fenderfirst2012

Two extra days for the contest
November 28th, 2011
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Win a Fender guitar with Thounds

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

Good luck!

Last days to win a Fender Strat
November 25th, 2011
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Win a Fender guitar with Thounds

A few days to go but you are still in time to win a new Fender Stratocaster offered by Thounds.

See who is winning and enter the competition from here:
http://thounds.com/contest

In November you win a Fender!
November 4th, 2011
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Win a Fender guitar with Thounds

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:

  1. Record a new thound, choose a nice title and type in the tag #fender1111 when prompted
  2. Get all of your friends to comment that thound
  3. 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

http://thounds.com/contests/fender1111

Thounds at the Future Music Forum Barcelona
September 1st, 2011
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Thounds at the Future Music Forum Barcelona 2011

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.

Future Music Forum
Barcelona, 22 and 23 September 2011
http://www.futuremusicforum.com | Facebook

Velvet & Microsoft Messenger
August 2nd, 2011
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Sei un Utente Messenger? Hai un account Hotmail?
Con Thounds e Messenger potrai suonare e cantare con i Velvet!
Clicca qui per iniziare

Are you a Messenger or Hotmail user?
With Thounds and Messenger you can play or sing along with Velvet!
Press here to start

The Belettes won the Spring contest!
May 3rd, 2011
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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.”

The full line up for the wonderful jury was:

Aaron Bogucki, Polydor (UK)
http://www.polydor.co.uk

Jack Fryer, Frukt Communications (UK)
http://www.fruktcomms.com

Christoph Sobel, New Yorker (Germany)
http://www.newyorker.de

Wil Padley, BandCentral (UK)
http://bandcentral.com

David Casalini, Cond´ Nast (Italy)
http://www.wired.it and http://ps.glamour.it

Gerardo Gascon, PIAS (Spain)
http://twitter.com/#!/promopiasspain

Lior Shamir, VibeDeck (USA)
http://vibedeck.com

Paul Dando, Starfield Road Management (UK)
http://www.starfieldroad.com

Virginie Berger, Don’t Believe The Hype (France)
http://virginieberger.com

Andrea Schipani, Audiocoop (Italy)
http://www.audiocoop.it

See more details and who got to 2nd and 3rd places too on:
http://thounds.com/contest