Greetings everyone! We are proud to announce that, starting this month, Vampr will be heading out on the road. In our first ever tour of North America we will be hitting New York, San Jose and Los Angeles in order to spread awareness about Vampr and our goal of connecting all musicians everywhere.
To start, we will be hosting a networking event with Let’s All Build at LMHQ in New York on Friday March 23. We’re calling the evening SOUND SCREEN and in addition to networking will feature a panel with representatives from Building Beats, License Lounge and Underground Producers Alliance.
Next stop is San Jose on Sunday April 15, where we are co-presenting a Devin The Dude show at Back Bar SoFA. The show is on track to sell out — if you’re keen to come, make sure you purchase tickets well ahead of time. You will find us in a Vampr booth at the back of the room where we’ll be handing out swag including the famous Vampr guitar pick!
Finally, every Monday this May we will be presenting The Sunset Jam at The Viper Room. The Sunset Jam is a unique showcase event providing musicians in LA an environment to network in. Depending on the night you might mingle with record label reps, A&R scouts, producers, songwriters, musical directors or bands seeking musicians.
This first anouncement of events is only the tip of the iceberg for us. We look forward to guaging the response to each event so we can plan bigger and better events for the future. The ultimate goal here is to not only provide our community a place to congregate in a way that’s exciting and ephemeral, but to put a face to the technology that you have so magnificently embraced.
We would love to see every single one of you come out and get to know both other members of our community and members of the Vampr team. So much great music has already come out of Vampr and we’re betting that with events like these, we’ll start to see that much more.
EDIT: We have added a quick trans-pacific pit stop in Sydney, Australia on April 12 & 13, where will be presenting as part of the FastForward music conference.
For more information, visit the links below and secure your spot at the Vampr Roadshow today!
New York — Friday March 23 — 6pm — https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sound-screen-music-industry-panel-event-tickets-43910489456
Sydney (Australia) — Thursday April 12 & Friday April 13 — 1030am — https://sydney.fastforward.xyz
San Jose — Sunday April 15 — 8pm — https://www.eventbrite.com/e/devin-the-dude-live-presented-by-nu-ricks-and-vampr-tickets-42297980398
Los Angeles — Mondays in May — 730pm — http://www.viperroom.com/
As of today, Vampr users have swiped on each other 10 million times! Here’s to the 10 millionth person who was swiped on — introducing Thea Jones!
For many of you, the wait is finally over. As of this week, Vampr is now available in both Spanish and Turkish versions. The localization of Vampr has been a long time coming and we are excited to hear all of your feedback!
The goal of Vampr has always been to connect you with people all over the world. With this new update we just made that a whole lot easier. With a large portion of our users living in Spanish and Turkish speaking countries, it made sense to start there, however, we are far from finished. We are currently working tirelessly on getting Vampr out in all languages!
To those of you in China, France, Japan, Portugal and Russia please send us your own Hello videos at social@vampr.me for a chance to be featured on our social media accounts! To all of you who speak Spanish or Turkish, check out Vampr now in your native tongue.
Needless to say, every Vampr member is important to us and we want to make Vampr a great experience no matter where you are or where you come from. Just hearing that someone from Germany connected with someone from Texas, gets us excited and shows us that we are doing our job. Please continue sending us your Vampr collaborations. I speak on behalf of the whole Vampr team when I say that we are more than looking forward to hearing all of the amazing music you guys are about to make and love the music you have made so far. Be on the lookout for constant updates to our app and keep Playing Together ✌️
Just a quick one today to share with y’all some really exciting news for our community.
Apple has just released its annual list of favorite apps from around the world. Known as ‘Best of 2017’ we were selected as one of their Trends of the Year in the Lifestyle category!
For us, and for you, this is validation of a product and a community which we’ve all worked sincerely hard to create. We are on track to pass 200,000 signups by New Years and so much of that is word of mouth — please keep up the hustle. Without it we wouldn’t be getting acknowledgement from the likes of Apple or Facebook or Amazon or any of the incredible partners we’ve had a chance to work with in 2017.
Josh ✌️
Ps. See Star Wars 😱
Pps. Check out the final Vampr Story for the year in a wonderfully festive video below!
Happy holiday season! What a massive year it’s been for this Vampr community of ours.
We’ve just passed 1 million connections!
Meaning more of you are discovering, connecting and collaborating to make more and more new and wonderful music for the world — and we’re only just getting started 😊
In a remarkably short amount of time the Vampr community has become the most active and engaged music networking platform in the world. A round of applause to you all 👏
Our Vampr Stories series continues to highlight your unique and personal journeys of artistic collaboration, with tracks and videos flowing in from all corners of the world. To say we LOVE these stories would be a huge understatement.
While you have been busy making music we have been busy on our new website that will shift the spotlight onto you, the creators. We want to show the kinds of opportunities that continue to be created for new and existing users alike on Vampr.
Check it out → www.vampr.me
As some of you are aware our growth has not been without its hiccups, but rest assured we continue to throw every bit of talent and resources we can muster to fix bugs and improve speed, and we continue to encourage you to let us know directly if something is broken or not working for you.
Last up, please let us know if you have your own Vampr Story that you want to share with the world — we will be running new content on the website regularly!
Take care everyone,
Thanks again and see you in 2018.
Josh, Baz & the Vampr Team ✌️
Last updated: November 17, 2020
Thank you to all of our Vampr community for your continued app feedback. It helps us continue to refine our technology to provide the most user friendly experience possible, to meet the expectations of our users.
The most common questions we receive are about Login, Discovery, Search and Messaging.
Kicking off with Login, you can access Vampr through either your Facebook account or your email address. Whether you are a returning user or brand new to Vampr, simply click the option you are most comfortable with and follow the steps to get into your account.
Vampr uses a Navigation Bar to help users find their way around the app.
Once logged in you are taken to the Discovery tab where you will find other creatives based on your current location and taste in music.
If you want to learn more about someone, click on their photo to see their Deep Profile – this is where you can “audition” a user by checking out their videos, tracks, photos, taste in music and read their bio.
To connect with another user simply swipe right on their photo or press the + button. To pass on a user swipe left or hit the X button. Once you have connected with another user you can message them from the Messages page, which you will always find in the top right corner of the app. More on that in a bit…
To adjust your search results, tap the Discovery Preferences button in the top left corner of your screen and tell the app what you are looking for.
Vampr Tip 1: All users have a Shoutout which appears above their profile picture – kind of like a thought bubble! Your Shoutout is like your status — what do you want people to know immediately? What are you looking for?! Edit your shoutout from the Profile tab.
Editing your profile has never been easier. Click on the Profile tab from the navigation bar and make sure you are in Edit Profile mode. This is where you can add or remove your images, choose a Soundcloud track and/or point to a YouTube or Vimeo clip.
Vampr Tip 2: Profiles with media attached attract a 75% higher engagement rate!
In Edit Profile mode you can also change all of your other details — name, age, what you do, what you listen to, your bio, your favorite genre etc.
The more favorite artists you list the more accurate our matching algorithm will be in suggesting suitable collaborative partners.
Vampr Tip 3: You can enter a custom genre or custom skill by simply typing something original into the respective sections in Edit Profile, like in the above GIF.
Next up we have Settings which you will find on the far right of the navigation bar.
From the Settings page users can access or manage their Vampr Publishing catalogue (more on that here), purchase Vampr Pro (what’s Vampr Pro?) or fine tune any of the apps settings to suit your needs (ie. choose which notifications you want to receive). The Settings page is also where you can get in touch with our support team, logout of the app or, if you must, delete your account.
To view your messages and connections, click the Message icon at the top right of the Discovery page. When you see a number next to the icon it means you have unopened new connections or new messages.
Vampr Tip 4: Upon making a connection, why not kick things off with one of our conversation starters? A quick and easy way to get the ball rolling on a light and friendly note 😊
You can filter your connections and conversations by skills and genre, so you never have to worry about searching through hundreds of people to find that bass player you connected with last summer!
We wanted to pack all of the features that musicians and creatives want in the simplest user experience possible. Hopefully this clears up any questions you might have had. But of course if have any additional questions, hit us up anytime at support@vampr.me
The rest is up to you — Make Music Happen ✌️