b5media Launches New Music Channel

b5media Launches New Music Channel

TORONTO, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- b5media Inc. is extremely pleased to announce the launch of its new music channel featuring a wide variety of blogs focused on bands, genres and geographical locations.

This is b5media's 14th channel and increases the number of blogs within the network to more than 230.

"Since b5media first launched in September of 2005, we've felt the music scene was being vastly underserved by professional blogs," said Jeremy Wright, b5media's CEO. "We believe that by bringing together thought leaders in the music space, new music bloggers and plain old music phreaks that we can provide a real place where music lovers from around the world can find bands, music, reviews and content they'll love!"

The music channel portfolio, headed by channel editor Mike Laba, features blogs focused on genres such as the metal, jazz, blues, industrial and crooner scenes, as well as hotspots such as Nashville, the U.K. and Australia.

"I'm a huge music fan, and I think music lovers are going to find our blogs to be rewarding places to discover new and exciting bands and artists within various genres and styles," Laba said. "We've assembled a great group of passionate bloggers so whether it's music discovery or re-discovery, this channel will rock all expectations."

As part of the music channel's launch, b5media is giving away three iPod Shuffles, three Memorex MP3 players pre-loaded with MusicIP's kick-ass music discovery software, and three $25 iTunes certificates. All the contest details can be found at b5media.com/blog

For more information about b5's new music channel, contact Jeremy Wright Jeremy at b5media.com.

To find the music channel go to b5media.com/channels/music. For information about b5media, go to b5media.com or b5media.com/blog.

About b5media: b5media is a global new media network that features a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. With content written by passionate people that attracts more than three million unique visitors a month, the Toronto-based company is among the world's largest blogging/new media networks.

b5media received venture capital financing in late-2006 from JLA Ventures and Brightspark Ventures.

Source: b5media Inc.

CONTACT: Jeremy Wright of b5media Inc., +1-866-652-7189,
Jeremy at b5media.com

Web site:

http://www.b5media.com/
http://b5media.com/blog

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