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Changes afoot

2007-06-01T18:00:00.000-07:00

we're pausing the pure "vote to get on TV" program for now and working on a better way to help deserving new bands get a break on TV. We hoped that voting would help great undiscovered bands percolate to the top but gaming a voting system proved too easy... To insure interesting talent get on air and provide a good viewing experience we're going to make voting one component of how videos are chosen. Big changes are coming here this month!

For those outside Comcast TV markets...

2007-03-19T12:13:00.000-07:00

Most of the videos that get on Music Video Spy TV are our personal favorite new works from signed independent artists. Some of them are truly inspired works of art.

We set up MVspy.com to add an extra democratic flavor to our TV line up and so any artist in the world has the ability to get their work seen on TV by getting a few of their friends and fans to vote them there.

Some of the videos submitted online are impressive (impossible to tell them apart from catchy, polished label sponsored productions) and others are so raw that it's hard to imagine an audience for them. It's no surprise that some seriously bizarre stuff gets on air from the web...

For those of you without access to Comcast digital TV, here's a list of some of the videos airing on Music Video Spy TV right now:

New Videos from:

Artic Monkeys
Badly Drawn Boy
Bare Naked Ladies
Catfish Haven
Copeland
Danielson
Elijah Bossenbroek (voted onto TV)
Eric McVay (voted onto TV)
Eric Michael Hopper (voted onto TV)
Golden Boy (voted onto TV 3 videos)
JP Extreme (voted onto TV)
Kittie Funeral
Lisa Rine (voted onto TV)
Lost and no on knows
Metal Feather (voted onto TV 3 videos)
Midlake (voted onto TV)
Philosophers Inc (voted onto TV)
Raising day break (voted onto TV)
Riverboat gambler
Rye Coalition (voted onto TV)
Silent service (voted onto TV)
The Format
The Transit War
These Arms
Valencia
Visionaries
Whole wheat bread
Zion I & The Grouch

February's winners to go on MVspy TV

2007-03-01T11:59:00.000-08:00

*1.* *Eshy*, “Blacks & Jews” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MjA0> 379.70
*2.* *LX of Warpath*, “Drunken Depression” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6NDIw> 297.80
*3.* *Saints & Sinners*, “On Being and Believing” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6NDIx> 283.20
*4.* *Blue Stone*, “Worlds Apart (Searching for You)” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6NDEy> 168.20
*5.* *Crisstoffer*, “Breath-the Video” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MzYz> 136.60
*6.* *OHN*, “Ijo People” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MTQz> 134.60
*7.* *Diverse*, “Explosive” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mzc=> 134.30
*8.* *The Jellybricks*, “Can't Be Wrong” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mjcw> 118.40
*9.* *Skitchy*, “Tiny Little Freaks” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MzI3> 108.20
*10.* *Delta Rage*, “Delta Rage # 2 by Mag3k.com” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MjI1> 107.30
*11.* *stikyfinger*, “clara tu n'es pas un ange” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MjQw> 103.40
*12.* *I.F.U*, “Dark” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mzcy> 100.60
*13.* *I.F.U*, “Pray For Your Sins” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mzcz> 94.40
*14.* *THE LOW-FLOW PLAYAZ*, “ Conflict In civilaztionz ” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MzE5> 91.00
*15.* *Color Of Darkness*, “Death Ride” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MjEx> 84.30
*16.* *Tom Gaebel*, “IS SINATRA STILL ALIVE” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mzgy> 78.80
*17.* *Tom Gaebel*, “SINGING LIKE FRANK SINATRA” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mzgw> 75.40
*18.* *Bob Gentry*, “Foam” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6Mzk0> 73.40
*19.* *Scott Wilson*, “Coffeehouse 101” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MzYy> 72.40
*20.* *Kynosis*, “Frequency” <http://www.mvspy.com/mvspy/video/bXZzcHk6MTM3> 72.20

Many more vids on TV

2007-02-23T16:45:00.000-08:00

Here are some great videos we've had on TV this year that are not on the site - if you are in a Comcast area check us out on TV:

Fatboy Slim

The Streets-Never Went to Church

Underoath: Writing On The Walls

Barenaked Ladies

Big City Rock

Imogen Heap

Warriors

NOFX

Calexico-Cruel

Dr. Octagon-Aliens

Buzzocks-Wish I Never Loved You

Peeping Tom: Mojo

Lady Sovereign, "Random"

Halifax

Eleventyseven

Blow Up Hollywood

Britt Black Jet Black Heart

Arctic Monkeys..

The Academy Is..

Placebo

Blk Hrt Procession

A Heartwell Ending

Mastodon

The Shins - Saint Simon

The Lovethugs

Set Your Goals-Mutiny

Gomez

The Early November-Hair

Organ, The

Stills, The

Paramore-Emerg...

New London Fire

Cute We Aim For..

Flatfoot 56

Xiu Xiu-Boy..

Radio 4

Beth Orton "Shop..

Hard-Fi

Immaculate Machine-Broken Ship

Two Ton Boa-Cash..

Shelby

Every Time I Die..

Burning Spear-Never

Hot Chip "Over...

The Willowz, "Cons & Tricks"

Matt Pond PA: So Much

Lennon-No One

Johnny Lives

As Fast As-Florida..

Majestic 12

Centro-matic

The Futureheads Skip To the End

Baby Dayliner

Glovebox: Superstar

The Heavy Blinkers-Try Telling Baby

Valencia-The Space..

Old Crow Med...

Needtobreathe

Captain Ahab-Snakes..

The Submarines

Eagles/Death I..

Meg & Dia Monster

The Get Quick-Lose It All

Midlake "Young...

The Gossip-Listen..

Leigh Nash-My...

Inkwell-Just Take..

Lennon-Where..

David Rolas-Adren..

Hellogoodbye: Here (In Your Arms)

MSTRKRFT-Work On...

Erase Errat-Tax..

Phoenix-Consolation Prize

Motion Man & Kutm..

Fields-Song For..

The Organ-Memor..

Strike Anywhere

Mobius Band-Loving...

The Bouncing Souls

Motion City Sound..

Livitz Livitz

Emelee Head Over..

Plus Minus-Steal..

Danko Jones First..

Matchbook Romance

From First To Last

IV Thieves-You..

Psapp_Tricycle

Supersystem-White..

Novillero-The Art...

Left Alone Every..

Panic Division-Ver.

Panacea Star..

Rye Coalition Young

New Charts!

2007-02-20T09:59:00.000-08:00

Following your suggestions we just put up charts to make it easier to see which vids are on deck to go on air. Pretty nifty!
Right now a handful of registered votes can move a lot of vids from off air to one of the top 20 slots.

MVspy's January Get on TV winners

2007-02-06T09:24:00.000-08:00

January Get on TV contest winners scheduled to go on air for the month of April on MVspy TV.

Here they are:

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name title score

+---------------------------------------+------------------------------------+---------+-----+

1 Splinter Feed the Masses 884.601

2 KAREN CURIOUS & the new professionals Nothin' Pretty 569.002

3 d.a.r.k (dumbass roadkill) wampyre 311.799

4 Pistol Whippin Ike Pistol Whippin Ike #2 246.8

5 KM Williams New Preachin' Blues 223.5

6 HORSY HATE 203

7 Shawn Gallaway I Choose Love - The Experience 202.999

8 Devlin Murphy I'm on a High 202.199

9 ILIANA Mariposa 195.4

10 JPExtreme I Am Gone 154.8

11 JPExtreme Sands By The Sea 153.4

12 JPExtreme Life 150.7

13 thetiler Hero's Dust Version 3 127.

14 Johnny Love Hip Hop 120

15 Devlin Murphy Where do we all go 119.2

16Troublemakers Stunna Shades 116

17 Devlin Murphy Nowhere 111.6

18 boxViolet punding 109.4

19 Crisstoffer ZeeRo DegRee 99.4

20 Crisstoffer Perfect 96.6 96.00

2007-01-18T09:20:00.000-08:00

Howdy. In case you were wondering - the contest date was extended this month so we could synch up the with the actual calendar month. Makes it easier for everyone to keep track of the contest dates. The first batch of winners from the first month's contest will go on air in about 3 weeks.

What is MVspy?

2006-12-23T11:45:00.000-08:00

What is this thing MVspy?

Well unlike a lot of other user content sites that let content developers put up content to share, our mission is simple. Let the world pick what gets on TV!

The way the site works is that people who have videos can sign up and post them on the site. We do go through an approval process (we can't put things onto TV that might violate copyrights, have profanity or nudity). Once a video is approved it appears on the site.

Then viewers visit the site and can vote for videos. Every month we take the top 20 scoring videos and put them on Comcast VOD channel 1 (MVspy!). It is that simple. We have the clearest way for video creators to get their music onto TV.

Are there any catches? Not really - as a video owner, you would really want to promote the video. We use a scoring system that is based on votes. People who register and sign in count a lot more than people who just visit and vote. Also we allow people to vote once per day. How hard is it to win?

Let's do the math- The overall winner last month, Elijah Bossenbroek, got about 300 points in a month. Each registered user counts as a point. So if one person votes every day it would be 30 points in a month. That means that it only takes 10 registered voters coming back every day to get to the top.

Since this is our first blog post, we'll leave it at that for now. We will be back every week highlighting great videos and talking about new features and what is going on at MVspy. We hope to hear from our audience on suggestions, rants, raves and anything else that may be on your mind.

Signing out,
MVspy