TruSpot, the free African music service moves to make African music listening and sharing even more easier and social with its latest major product upgrade launched to all existing and new users today (September 30th). Today we hit the reset button by wiping out all former data, to restart our platform fixing all legal issues with content owners and to provide the users with nothing less than what they want. Our success story of being the first and much favored African music digital service story remains as we move forward to maintain the focus on product and keeping users, brands and content owners satisfied.
Meet the new African music social network myTruSpot (www.myTruSpot.com) , the most significant release since our launch to the market in December 2006. Adding in majority of the most requested features from past feedbacks, including the most requested – Love Button, Artist Self Service, Track Uploads, Spot Feed and Follow Button. The release also features a growing music catalogue featuring legendary artists like Fela Kuti to modern age artists like Wale, a new user interface and experience design, additional product features and easier usability for TruSpot users. TruSpot continues to prove that they can keep the momentum and stay at the forefront of innovation and design at HQ in Lagos, Nigeria.
TruSpot also has just recently rebranded its internet radio station from truspotradio to TruSpot.FM and has released an Android app for it. This launch to the market is significant because not only does the artists have the control their content and profiles, they also can easily talk with their followers and view their lovers, while users can easily leave a review, repost an update from artists and meet new friends thereby allowing the user base for each account type to grow worldwide organically.
Rose Orizu – Community Manager with Team TruSpot maintains that “we are going to fix what we missed out these past few years, and remain focused on building Africa’s largest music network and take our users experience beyond their expectations.” Ike Orizu, CEO also remarks on the amazing effort the team has put in to restructuring and restrategizing “Having a team that works is key. Our vision, creativity, innovation and consistency are what have kept us going and together we have built a product that will solidify our progress, but most importantly it has enhanced our confidence that we are ahead on the road to being the World’s favorite African music service.”
The latest release to TruSpot allows users to follow and interact with their favorite artists, build playlists collectively with friends, discuss and share your African music with friends and followers. It’s a simple way to get the latest updates in the African scene at the same time giving you the avenue to express what you feel about them. Adding the Spot Feed Activities (Twitter like Timeline focused on music habits of people followed), Music Charts features to TruSpot further enhances the value of the social network to the users by making it their preferable music destination and allows users to connect with others that share similar tastes in music.
Key Features of myTruSpot.com by Team TruSpot
- Social Network: Increased focus hyper-social activities
- Follow Button: Users can now follow people that interest them
- User Experience: New UI / UX design and icons
- Rating System: Tags, Star ratings, Comment box
- Music Library and Stations: Users can create playlists, use Love Button to add favorites and play Artist stations
- Neighbours: Connect users that have a common interests as you
- Large Music Catalogue: Search over thousands of African songs on the app and share them
Unlike typical African music platforms that aim to promote manual sharing, the new myTruSpot platform has the unique ability to pull in a user’s listening habits from their actions, helping recommend the right songs for them to listen and give artists insights through detailed statistics of who is listening to them. MyTruSpot.com users can now follow friends, family and favorite celebrities, artists, influencers and even sports stars to see what songs they are playing and therefore discover new African music.
