Kiyomi
Singer/Songwriter
http://www.kiyomimusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/kiyomi325

"Ever since my ad campaign started, I've gotten so much fan mail from people from all over, really sincere, heartfelt messages from people who've been touched by my music somehow, some even thanking me with tears for "sharing my gift". Co-workers and fellow students have come up to me asking how I managed to get my face all over the internet. I've gotten many requests from fans wanting to purchase my cd as well, and it has been amazing exposure for me, and I'm truly grateful."

Tom Gavornik
Jazz Guitarist/Composer.
http://www.tomgavornik.com

"I've recorded and released over records in my career and for a Jazz musician retail has always been one of the toughest part of the music industry to impact upon. Since I started participating in these Internet banner campaigns I've seen a huge up-tick in both my digital download sales as well as CD sales. Thanks why I make sure to reserve a space for every 30 day cycle month after month after month. Man, this kind of advertising doesn't cost - it pays!"

Black Dawn
Loud Rock Band
http://www.blackdawn.net
http://www.myspace.com/blackdawnband

"It's been over 3 years since our last CD was released and felt that the industry magazines we've placed ads just didn't do enough in the past to help us get the additonal exposure we wanted. In fact, it seems that over the past several years we have had more success hooking up with new fans and selling more CDs by using MySpace. So, we figured we would give advertising on MySpace a shot since it has helped out so much in the past, but the process of getting a straight answer from anyone there was really a pain. Plus when we finally did make contact with somebody they told us it would cost $20,000.00 dollars to run an ad with them :-( But, just when we figured there would be no way we could come up with that amount of cash, or run an ad with them, we received an email from HotIndieMedia.com letting us know how we could run a co-op ad for about the price of a full page ad in our favorite industry magazine. So, we tried them out, and we can't believe how much traffic our website and MySpace page started receiving. Plus, we've been receiving checks from CD Baby on a monthly basis (something that never happened to us before). So, all we want to say is thank you so much HotIndieMedia.com for providing such a great service that helps give independent artists the same advertising opportunities that the major labels have at a very low cost."