Streaming platform Accuradio has announced a competition for unemployed radio professionals to develop a customized music playlist.
Accuradio will accept the proposals of up to fifty people for creating a 100-1000 song channel. All of those accepted will receive $300, with five $1000 prizes then being issued for the winners of each of the following categories:
- (1) Channel with the most listening in its first 30 days
- (2) Channel with the most user “favorites” in its first 30 days
- (3) Most creative channel
- (4) Best single-genre channel
- (5) Best multi-genre channel
Full details and a submission form are available here.
AccuRadio, music streaming’s only all-human-curated major music website (www.accuradio.com), is inviting radio professionals “dislocated” by radio’s ongoing restructuring and corporatization to let their creative juices flow again by curating their own unique music channel.
Out-of-work radio professionals can apply to curate a channel with music of their own choosing and without soul-deadening corporate strictures.
“Liberated from the limits of commercial radio, curators can build channels using any music they choose,” says AccuRadio COO Ben Husmann. “It can be music they know intimately, a new genre they’ve always wanted to experiment with, or a groundbreaking blend of songs. It’s completely up to each curators’ whims.”
“We believe a human touch, not algorithms, makes music listening exciting,” says Kurt Hanson, Founder/CEO of AccuRadio. “We want to give industry professionals a chance to have fun programming music again and give listeners a human touch far superior to algorithm-generated streams.”
Each guest curator whose channel is selected to stream on AccuRadio receives a $300 stipend, with up to fifty channels selected to launch.
Once the channels launch on AccuRadio.com, five $1,000 awards will be awarded to curators based on the following criteria:
(1) Channel with the most listening in its first 30 days
(2) Channel with the most user “favorites” in its first 30 days
(3) Most creative channel
(4) Best single-genre channel
(5) Best multi-genre channel“We know it’s no substitute for a full-time job, but it’s a chance to make a few dollars doing what many radio folks enjoy most—creating a music flow that’s fun and entertaining for listeners,” adds Husmann.
Hanson offers this advice to those submitting channels, “Create that ’70s Japanese Blues channel you’ve always wanted to build, design a new format at the intersection of Country and Reggae, curate a channel of break-up songs… No boundaries! Let your passions, knowledge and professionalism guide you.”
For more information about the program and to submit a channel proposal, please visit https://accuradio.com/pages/channel-proposal/
