Haulix Weekly Update #58 – Does Anyone Listen To Morning Zoos in 2014?

We have started almost every one of our recent updates by introducing you to an up and coming artist we love. This week we made it a point to highlight the fact we often work with comedians as well, so we thought it would be a nice change of pace to feature one of our favorite comics at the top of this update. You may have heard of Marc Maron because of his hit show on IFC, but he’s been a standup for many years, and his recent ‘Thinky Pain’ special has kept us laughing throughout 2014. You can view the special on Netflix right now, but here’s a clip to get you started:

Each and every Friday we like to take a brief break from our regularly scheduled programming to update and reflect on everything happening at Haulix HQ. We are far more than a music blog, as many of you already know, and posts like this give us an opportunity to share more our efforts with all of you.

We have dev updates! We have dev updates!

We have been teasing new product updates for the past several weeks, and in recent days we were finally able to unveil on project that has been taking up a lot of our time. 

Our promo distribution platform has long allowed for customization, but this week we took those efforts one step further by allowing for fully transparent promo creation. This means clients have more options than ever before to make each promo reflect the artist its meant to represent. Here’s an example of what a promo created using this feature can look like:

Want to do this with your next promo? Log into your Haulix account and follow these steps:

1. Click on Promos

2. When you have your promo selected, click on the Design button

3. In the upper right Design column, click the drop down list and select New…

4. Give your template a name and Create

5. In the right column, click to upload a background image.  You can either use one wide 2000px image that does not repeat or upload a small tile and repeat it.

6. With your background image uploaded, adjust the other colors and check both of the “transparent” checkboxes.

7. Click the Save button

8. Click to Preview your promo

TIP:  Create a semi-transparent header image (870px wide) and upload it. Your background will blend into the header image.

ON THE BLOG END OF THINGS – we do not have any updates as cool or innovative as the one mentioned above. We do, however, have a lot of new content. In the past seven days we conducted over a dozen interviews, including three new podcast episodes, two artist spotlights, two blogger spotlights, and multiple industry features. To say the fall/winter will be exciting would be an understatement.

Here’s a quick list of everything we ran this week. If you missed anything, now is the time to catch up:

That’s all we have for this week. Thank you for your continued support. Have a safe and fun weekend. We’ll be back tomorrow with another piece of content for you to enjoy.

Best,

Haulix

James Shotwell