{"id":5619,"date":"2022-01-26T11:41:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/label-engine.com\/news\/?p=5619"},"modified":"2022-01-26T11:41:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T19:41:59","slug":"announcement-discontinuation-of-follow-to-download","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/label-engine.com\/news\/announcement-discontinuation-of-follow-to-download\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcement: Discontinuation of &#8220;Follow to Download&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We have made the decision to discontinue our feature &#8220;Follow to Download&#8221;, which requires recipients to login on social media platforms and follow your accounts on social media to download the selected tracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>The Background<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>With the initial development of (at the time) Label Engine, the team envisioned a tool where artists and labels give fans first access to their music in exchange for expanding their social media reach. 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This has forced a reckoning where we needed to make some long-term decisions about the future of this amazing product.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5>Discontinuing Follow to download<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective immediately, the team is discontinuing any development on the feature and recommend that our labels and artists begin utilizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/label-engine.com\/record_label_promotion.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"promotional system (opens in a new tab)\">promotional system<\/a> features and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Follow to download&#8221; will be taken down on March 1st 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us via live chat or at support@label-engine.com and don&#8217;t forget #MakeMoreFromMusic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Label Engine&#8217;s &#8220;Follow to Download&#8221; feature will be discontinued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5655,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - 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