LiveXLive Collaborates With American Songwriter for Annual Song Contest

LiveXLive Media, a global platform for Livestream and on-demand audio, video, and podcast/vodcast content in music, comedy, and popular culture, and owner of PodcastOne, Slacker Radio, React Presents. Custom Personalization Solutions announced today that it's partnered with American Songwriter, a subsidiary of Savage Ventures, to highlight aspiring songwriters with the publication's annual song contest. The partnership allows rising talent to win a First Place Prize, including two premium benefits provided by LiveXLive, $10,000 in cash and a music publishing affect LiveXLive's Music Publishing Division; a big kickstart for a rising songwriter's career. In addition, each entrant will be given a three-month LiveXLive Plus subscription. At the core of the relationship is a mutual desire to support songwriters' pursuit of professional success while sharing their music's greater awareness with a world platform offering a captive audience searching for the discovery of new music.

Contest submissions will be evaluated and judged by a panel of notable artists and songwriters, like Martina McBride, Michael Franti, Maggie Rose, label and industry executives, and LiveXLive, who will collectively select the winner.

The partnership will tap into LiveXLive's flywheel business model of listening, watch, attend, engage and transact. The LiveXLive platform is unique in the marketplace, providing incredible opportunities to publish and share their songs and create professional videos. All of this engagement builds artists' audience. It amplifies its music through the high-profile LiveXLive franchise content such as "Music Lives On" and "Music Lives" and being featured across other LiveXLive platforms such as its leading podcast platform PodcastOne.

LiveXLive's platforms in live streaming, streaming radio, podcasts, vodcasts, original programming, and publishing provide rising artists with incredible exposure early on in their careers. LiveXLive's live streams, festivals, and pay-per-view concerts afford artists the critical mass of viewers and listeners, establishing the platform as a must-stop on rising talent's exposure to audiences.

About American Songwriter
American Songwriter was founded in 1984 and acquired by Savage Ventures in 2019. The site, magazine publication, and podcast network offer various engaging content and contests for site visitors and members. The content shares in-depth Q&As with up-and-coming, established, and legendary songwriters, provides coverage of recording technology (including the latest gadgets and gear every songwriter should know about), and reports on the music publishing business with interviews and insight from publishers, producers, and other industry professionals. American Songwriter explores all genres of music – from country to hip-hop, folk to classical, rock to pop, blues to electronica and soul to R&B. Distributed internationally with a heavy domestic subscriber base, the readership of American Songwriter is just as diverse as its contents, including both professional and aspiring songwriters, music fans, music publishers, studio owners, copyright lawyers, record label presidents, and music consumers.

About LiveXLive Media, Inc.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, LiveXLive Media, Inc. is a leading global all-in-one streaming artist-first platform delivering premium music and entertainment content and live-streams from the world's top artists, expertly curated streaming radio stations, podcasts, and original video and audio-on-demand content, also as personalized merchandise, connecting artists to millions of fans every day. The company has streamed over 1,800 artists since January 2020. It has created a valuable connection between bands, fans, and brands by building long-term franchises in audio, video, podcasting, pay-per-view (PPV), live-streaming, and specialty merchandise. LiveXLive is available on iOS, Android, Roku, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire, and through OTT, Samsung TV, STIRR, Sling, and XUMO, in addition to its app, online website, and social channels. The company's wholly-owned subsidiary PodcastOne generates more than 2.25 billion downloads per year, with 400+ episodes distributed per week across a stable of hundreds of top podcasts.