Miss Nana is the #1 unsigned artist on SayNow and hustles like no other we know. This full page ad on her is in the May 2008 issue of Vibe Magazine.

There’s no need for this 16 year old to flaunt any sex appeal when she’s commanded crowds all over the country. With her skillful wordplay, this 7 year verteran has graced the stages of national tours alongside Chris Brown, Bow Wow, and Ciara. Her name is Miss Nana, and she’s sold over 60,000 units of her 10 mixtapes while faithfully returning phone calls to her 10,000 plus fans on her SayNow.com cell phone campaign…

Last year, she was chosen by Wyclef Jean and MySpace as the winner of the Vibe Verses 3 Contest and was flown to Hollywood to open for Wyclef’s album release party! (She used her SayNow number to remind fans to vote for her everyday during the competition and they came through) Check her out…

Miss Nana’s SayNow number: (415) 944-8048
Miss Nana’s SayNow Messages
Miss Nana’s MySpace

We’re in this week’s issue of Billboard magazine! Yay! The article is called “Dialing it Up: SayNow Helps Stars and Devotees Keep In Touch.” Here are a few words from our fearless leader…

“Artists love their fans and want an efficient way to connect to them,” SayNow co-founder/CEO Nikhyl Singhal says. “If they send them an e-mail or spend four hours answering questions on MySpace, their audience is still like, ‘Yeah, right, that’s not really them.’ But if the artist calls one of the fans back or leaves a voice mail, fans will know it’s them. There’s magic around the human voice.”

You can read the article over here.

Here’s a recent Billboard article with tips from country stars on ways to engage your fans. There’s even a little blurb on us.

Trisha Yearwood uses mobile/Web service SayNow to communicate with her fans, who can leave messages for her on a dedicated phone number and also receive replies. They can also listen to messages from other fans and Yearwood via a widget on her Web site. SayNow CEO Nikhyl Singhal says his service provides an “intimate connection between the celebrity and their fan base.” There is no cost to Yearwood or fans for the service since it sells advertising that runs at the end of the phone call. Experiment.

Yvonne (our fabulous office manager) spotted this article on the Jonas Brothers in the Feb 29 issue of Entertainment Weekly and there’s something about a MySpace calling plan with a phone number - yep, that’s their SayNow number! (though not sure why EW says it’s a MySpace calling plan).

Anyways, here’s the latest message from them!

The Jonas Brothers’ SayNow Number: (818) 748-8887
The Jonas Brothers’ SayNow Messages
The Jonas Brothers’ MySpace

ABC23 in Bakersfield recently did this story on musicians that are trying new ways to reach their fans (given the overwhelming amount of stuff clamouring for attention on MySpace) and included a little bit on how some of them are using SayNow to connect in a more personal way.

Bands like the Plain White Ts and solo artists like Alicia Keys and 50 Cent all use SayNow’s cell phone social networking tool. Lost Ocean Keyboardist Skyler Johnson said, “We’ll get the message and it will show up on our MySpace and we’ll actually call you back…It’s really cool because fans only normally get to talk to you if you’re coming to their town…

Cassidy’s rap battle and partnership with SayNow was written up in last week’s issue of Billboard! Here are some nice words from Carolyn Williams (J Records Marketing VP)

With SayNow, we were able to quantify the public’s interest in Cassidy, Williams says. This contest had 23,000 contestant entries and 30,000 fan votes. That’s pretty big for a small company. It also reminded consumers who Cassidy is - which is a battle rapper.

You can read the entire article below.

There’s a nice article on Blake Lewis in the Ventura Star today called Blake Lewis Takes Creative Control.

Blake was the runner up on the 6th season of American Idol and has been working hard to get the word out about his new album, which comes out next week. He cowrote 12 of the 13 songs on the new album and says, “I’m the first person, really, to have creative control coming off of American Idol.”

Last month he gave his SayNow fans a preview of his new single Break Anotha which they heard when they called in and which you can hear below.

Blake Lewis’ SayNow Number: (206) 973-3082
Blake Lewis’ SayNow Messages

Billboard just did a nice piece on mobile applications that help people who wouldn’t normally communicate offline to do just that and featured us along with another company called Kadoink.

A number of other social networking services designed specifically for mobile phones have gone live through the years as well, but with little fanfare and even less traffic.

Enter a new class of applications focused less on trying to re-create a social network’s look and feel on mobile devices and more on harnessing the spirit behind them—communication….

You can read the whole article here.

(A wee clarification to this statement in the article “Rather than a widget, SayNow relies on the artists themselves to promote their SayNow phone number in TV appearances, live events or by embedding it in music videos.”

SayNow actually does provide a Flash widget for anyone to embed in their MySpace page or website. The main difference is that rather than relying solely on a widget (which is web based) we also provide a unique phone number that makes it super easy for artists to give out whenever and wherever they want (i.e. on TV and radio appearances, in print collateral, at concerts, at the dentist, on a random street corner, etc.)