200,000 Bands Using iLike to Manage Social Net Profiles

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on March 5, 2008 - 1:31pm.

Seattle - Social music discovery service iLike said on Wednesday that more than 200,000 musicians, including half of the top 500 acts in music, are using its service to manage their profiles on social networks including Facebook, hi5 and Bebo. Artists including Radiohead, Linkin Park, 50 Cent and Herbie Hancock use the iLike Universal Artist Dashboard to post songs, videos, tour dates and other information across the various social networks. iLike, which claims 23 million registered users for its own service, said its Artist Dashboard also soon support MySpace and Orkut, following the launch of Google's OpenSocial.