With the music industry constantly evolving on an almost daily basis, it is important to remain up to date. The same thing goes for music technology. With platforms such as Craigslist and LinkedIn appearing more Web 1.0 by the minute, an effective and up-to-date alternative has never been more necessary. That’s where we come in 🙂
One way you might describe Vampr is Craigslist meets LinkedIn meets Tinder on steroids. The possibilities are endless. You can now search for exactly what you are looking for with the click of a button. Forget about aimlessly looking through thousands of listings, or having to guess the right keyword to search for. With Vampr, find the type of collaboration you are looking for, when you are looking for it.
With the 90’s long behind us Vampr has stepped up to take advantage of the mobile technology this generation has been afforded. Using swipe technology, our process is a much more fun way to discover musical collaborators than aimlessly scrolling through lists and networks. Let’s say you’re sitting in your room and you start to think you would love to collaborate with a French singer. No problem, just search for one. You want to find someone to practice with in your city? Cool, find one that same minute.
Don’t get us wrong. Craigslist and LinkedIn are good for certain things. If I want to sell my used sofa, I’ll be sure to get on Craigslist to do so. If I’m looking for a job selling insurance and would like to build my sales network, I’ll be sure to hop on LInkedIn.
Vampr is a platform built by musicians, for musicians. Our main goal is to find you, the musical creative, the exact collaborator you would like to work with as fast as possible. No run around processes are involved. Find someone you like, message them and collaborate. We just want to see everyone Play Together ✌️
ps. remember Carpool Tunnel, the San Jose band who formed on Vampr? They’ve now used the app to find a producer (GRAMMY nominee Billy Mohler, no less!) and have shot a new video of them in the studio together:
Good news for all you Vampr folks out there who have been patiently waiting for email signup – it’s here 🤗
For those of you who enjoyed the ease-of-use and speed of our one-click Facebook login, don’t worry, it’s not going anywhere. If you choose to signup via email, you will simply have to input your information manually.
Email signup is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the future of Vampr. We have so many amazing features in the works that will absolutely blow your minds!
Any musician in the world can now join Vampr and get swiping — how exciting!
With over 450,000 connections across 166 countries, our network of musicians and creatives with which you can connect with is about to get bigger again. And the best part is that all of these changes are a result of your direct feedback.
We hope you can see that we’re always listening and open to any feedback that could potentially make Vampr a better experience. Every single support email and App Store review is received, read and taken into serious consideration.
Thanks again for helping us make the music industry a better and more open community 😊
Play Together ✌️
Josh
It’s been an incredible couple of weeks here at Vampr HQ. Our user numbers grew beyond mine and everyone else’s wildest expectations, which was capped off by being able to share the moment with the whole Vampr team, who had come together from around the world to kick off planning for V3 – we took the above photo to celebrate!
In the last 10 days alone, you guys have racked up an additional 1 Million swipes and made an insane 110,000 new connections (in just 10 days!) And at our end, we have scoped out a vision for the platform that has us truly excited, and hope will offer our community another level of service and opportunity.
But hey, it’s not all milk and honey. The large volume of new signups has brought its fair share of technical glitches. Being a small team we are working as fast as we can to squash the bugs and can only promise that if you stick with us through these growing pains you will not be disappointed.
On the subject of growing pains, we are wary of some damaging reviews in the App Store and Google Play Store, which might possibly deter some people from joining our wonderful community. There’s no way we want to see our ship sink before it gets into full sail so if you have an issue, please send it to me — I will personally respond to all reports and user issues.
And for all you Vampr lovers, if you can spare some App Store love that would be fantastic 🙂
There is a lot of genuine support for the platform and a pile of good news stories. One of the best parts of my job is just hearing about people who have met because Vampr exists. You can check some of these out with the continuing Vampr Stories monthly series, which we’ve been posting on our social media channels. This month, we featured Adrian, a producer and multi-instrumentalist from Los Angeles, who connected with Viviana, a vocalist from Miami. They’ve got plans to make a banger of a track — we can’t wait to hear it!
To all of you who have jumped on board and helped us knock down the 20th century barriers to connecting and collaborating, a big big thanks. We look forward to continuing this journey with you ✌️️
Josh
In April we announced our first set of figures, reporting that Vampr users had swiped on each other 250,000 times and made 15,000 connections across 96 countries. We also kicked off our Vampr Stories series.
Well, in just 60 days since that blog piece, the Vampr community has exploded! We’ll let the above infographic do the talking 😎
With incredible traction comes frustrating growing pains. We are aware that there is a LOT of work to be done on the tech side of things. Our challenge is to juggle continued community growth while improving the app, fixing the bugs and speeding up our servers.
Rest assured, we’re on it. And we also have the most recent Vampr Story to share:
For any musician out there reading this, it’s common knowledge that tech innovation has made it easier to record and publish music, along with building a global fanbase, than it’s ever been and all for a fraction of what it once cost. Equally, technology has undermined the industry gatekeepers, who no longer get to decide who can have a career in music and what we get to record. Amen to all that!
But despite all these technological disruptions, one problem that technology has yet to fundamentally fix is how we find and connect with our fellow musicians on a local and global level. Vampr was created to do just that, aiming to help bring musicians together anywhere, any genre, any age, to play, listen and collaborate together.
Thankfully through the support of our ever growing community it’s off to a really good start. Literally tens of thousands of musicians, industry creatives and professionals have connected and started down the path of working together. Real opportunities are being created, friendships made and songs begun. Nevertheless, for all Vampr’s beautiful tech and opportunities within, it all still relies on the user making that first move, swiping right on someone they want to connect with. And we understand that for many people just starting out in music it can feel like one very big and bold swipe to make.
Which became the inspiration behind our Vampr Stories series. We thought we would try doing the swiping for them. We wanted to know if there were opportunities for anyone and everyone on the platform.
So throughout the month, we started hitting up various talented members of our community and asked them what they needed help with. We’ve only just begun but already can see that there really are opportunities out there just waiting behind the next swipe right…
Here’s a few examples of what we’ve been doing –
Steven, a Virginian producer with an R&B edge:
He needed a top-line writer/vocalist with “silky tones”. By week’s end we found him Elizabeth to work with, a fellow Vampr member from London, UK. Despite the 3000 mile gap, the two have since organized dates to start work on a brand new collab!
The following week we heard from Manny, a recording engineer with a studio on the Sunset Strip in LA:
He simply wanted to help develop a fledgling singer-songwriter. Enter Marcus:
Our hope is that by demonstrating not only the power of Vampr, but also the effort required in making stuff happen, that our community members will be guided by example in how to make that nerve-wracking first approach, and that the individual’s Vampr experience and thus overall community’s will benefit.
So go on, swipe right. You never know what you’re missing if you don’t.
Good luck ✌️️