Each Music Artist Makes an Average of $67 in 30 min During LiveRoom’s Beta Launch
September 30, 2020, LiveRoom Media, a professional live streaming and networking platform for the music industry launched last weekend during the Future Tech Festival, 2-day online music, and tech conference.
Each performer delivered a 30 min show, and made, on average, $67 in contributions from the audience with the largest contribution amounting to $107. “I’ve never made money from straight-up beatboxing before, that’s so exciting,” says D-Nice, an NYC-based professional competitive beatboxer.
The event marked LiveRoom’s official beta launch and 10 performances by musical artists. Each performer delivered a 30 min show, and made, on average, $67 in contributions from the audience with the largest contribution amounting to $107. “I’ve never made money from straight-up beatboxing before, that’s so exciting,” says D-Nice, an NYC-based professional competitive beatboxer.
Another LiveRoom performer and Nashville-based singer/songwriter, Charlie Brennan, said “Thank you all for tipping and, thank you LiveRoom for creating a platform like this for artists like me who can’t play live shows right now, it’s such an amazing opportunity. It means a lot.” “Thank you for donating, we may as well use LiveRoom every single day!,” remarked STAR6IXSE7EN during their Future Tech Festival LiveRoom performance.
“Thank you all for tipping and, thank you LiveRoom for creating a platform like this for artists like me who can’t play live shows right now, it’s such an amazing opportunity. It means a lot.” “Thank you for donating, we may as well use LiveRoom every single day!,” remarked STAR6IXSE7EN.
“As a part of LiveRoom’s mission is to allow artists to monetize their online performances, we’re humbled by the number of contributions sent to each performer. We hope to continue giving artists the possibility to monetize their hard work regardless of their physical location,” remarks Gabriela Naumnik, LiveRoom’s Co-Founder and CEO, “As two-thirds of creatives lost the majority of their income as a result of COVID-19 and social media platforms started overflowing with clutter, LiveRoom aims to provide a highly specialized platform for the music industry where musicians can monetize their performances regularly and where music fans can get invested in their favorite creative’s success.”
“And this is just the beginning,” follows up Klementyna Bohdanowicz, LiveRoom’s Co-Founder and CRO/CMO “Our next goal is to build professional networking capabilities into the platform as we want to give artists an opportunity to build their professional network within the music industry to find mentors, upskill, and achieve their objectives as music professionals.”
Justin Bolognino, Founder and CEO at META, an immersive experiences company igniting human spirit, remarked that “The future is not live streaming, it’s live-streamed concerts that can also be in VR and have an AR component!”
Vijay Krishnan, Founder and CTO of Turing.com, a platform enabling hiring remote software engineers from all over the world, and one of the participants during the Future Tech Festival explains that: “We’re seeing a boundaryless revolution happening to all walks of life and LiveRoom is an exciting example of a platform that transcends all the geographic boundaries to help music artists access larger global audiences, and be able to monetize their work regularly regardless of their physical location.” Justin Bolognino, Founder and CEO at META, an immersive experiences company igniting human spirit, remarked that “The future is not live streaming, it’s live-streamed concerts that can also be in VR and have an AR component!”
Carla Gannis, NYU’s Integrated Digital Media Professor also emphasized during one of Future Tech Festival’s sessions that “The arts and entertainment industries have a moment of cultural reckoning,” Gabriela Naumnik and LiveRoom’s Co-Founder and CEO remarks that “This is exciting because LiveRoom aims to evolve into a platform allowing music artists to create multisensory music performances for their audiences across multiple realities.”
Products by Women is incredibly proud to have collaborated with LiveRoom and Femily to create a unique festival where tech meets talent! Our goal at Products by Women is to back female-led start-ups, so they can successfully build and scale impactful and profitable products,” says Naimeesha Murthy, startup advisor and Founder at Products By Women. “And this initiative was a blast to work on and watch!,” said Leah Miriani, a UX Designer working on the visuals for Future Tech Festival, “ It was amazing to see so much great talent across industries come together, and watch art, media and tech blend to produce something new, entertaining and educational, all online.” “Future Tech Festival, including LiveRoom sessions, is certainly one of the best virtual conferences that I’ve attended this year. The topics discussed broadened my perspective on technologies that will play an increasingly important role in the years to come,” sums up Levaughn Denton, Founder of Zophonos, a platform transforming wearables into dynamic mixers.
LiveRoom is a result of an entirely remote 5-month-short collaboration between 4 Co-Founders: Gabriela Naumnik (CEO), Klementyna Bohdanowicz (CRO/CMO), Konrad Krawczyk (CTO), and Sara Bruszt (CDO), all of whom met during their undergraduate years at NYU in New York and Shanghai. LiveRoom Media was selected from 140 startups to join Columbia Startup Lab as a resident venture on September 9, 2020, and was selected one of 10 finalists during Columbia University’s The Greater Good Challenge Business Pitch Competition with the final competition round scheduled for October 9, 2020.
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