NEW!! Take your customers on a musical journey with 2 awesome playlists.

The experts at Soundnet have created two incredible playlists to take your customers on a trip through the best music from recent decades.

Weekend party nights are a great tactic to help get your customers in, enjoying themselves and spending! Vidimixer’s DJ playlists make it easy! All you need to do is select the playlist you want and your party night music is taken care of!

NO costly DJs or extra equipment required!

Time Tunnel:

A funky fusion of top tunes from the 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s to have your customers twisting and boogying on down into the early hours…maybe you’ll even see a moon walk!

Here’s a taster of the tracks:  Robert Palmer – Addicted To Love, Adamski – Killer, Gloria Gaynor – Never Can Say Goodbye.

This Is Jam Hot:

The ultimate collection of dance music in one playlist! Taking you on a euphoric journey from it’s glorious electronic birth in the 80s, through the eurodance days of the 90s to the electropop of the 00s!

Tracks include: Technotronic – Pump Up The Jam, Snap! - Rhythm Is A Dancer, Moloko – The Time Is Now.

The Euros 2012 Final: A recipe for success, whatever the result.

I’m keeping all my fingers and toes crossed for England making it to the final of The Euros 2012, but just in case we don’t……

Read on to find out how to make sure your pub is packed for the final whether England is in it or not.

Preparation Time: 30 minutes deciding your events (pick from the list below)

Cooking Time: 2 hours planning and organising (this will pay off when you have a full pub)

Serves: Your football regulars and their friends

Ingredients

• Advertise: Make sure you have adverts showing during games leading up to the final with details of what why they should be at your pub for the final.
• Use Beer or No Beer: This game can be your secret weapon to keep your customers in and spending money once the game is over. Sell or give away raffle tickets for the chance to play once the game is over. You can draw as many winning tickets as you like to keep your customers in.
• Offer extra special prizes: Change your prizes on Beer or No Beer to make the game even more appealing. Could you offer the chance to wins tickets to a game as your top prize, or priority seating for the Euros Final? To change your prizes, email feedback@vidimixer.com.
• Promotional SMS: Send out text messages with offer codes to claim a free drink after the game.
• Playlists: Use the Football playlist in your Playlist Manager to create an atmosphere which your customers won’t want to leave!

Method

1. Decide on the ingredients you are going to use.
2. Plan your Beer or No Beer prizes to make them exclusive to the Euros Final. Contact Vidimixer if you want to make any changes to your prizes.
3. Start advertising the games now, making sure your customers know exactly why they should be watching the game with you.
4. Send out text with details of drinks offer they won’t be able to refuse!

Here’s One We Made Earlier…

5.00pm: Hand out raffle tickets with your customers first drink or sell them to your early birds

7.45pm: Watch the game!

10.30pm: Draw your raffle tickets for your lucky player’s chance to win your exclusive prize.

*Updated Post* NEW! Jubilee Playlist available now! Don’t miss out!

*Post Update* The Jubilee Playlist is now on available to select from your Vidimixer playlist manager.

You’ll find it in Playlist manager >>UK Holidays Playlist >> Diamond Jubilee Playlist.

If you’d like to add the official Diamond Jubilee single Sing which was co written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Gary Barlow (with Prince Harry on tambourine) to the playlist call us on 0845 203 2727.

Don’t forget you also have other patriotic songs like God Save the Queen, Jerusalem, Swing Low and Land of Hope and Glory – you’ll find them through the track search screen.

Have a great Jubilee Weekend – The Vidimixer Team.

NEW! 4 decade defining playlists which will have your customers back for more!

Delight your customers by taking them back to their glory days! We’ve put together 4 incredible DJ playlists (created by Soundnet) based on the decades that define the music of today!

Weekend party nights are a great tactic to help get your customers in, enjoying themselves and spending! Vidimixer’s DJ playlists make it easy! All you need to do is select the playlist you want and your party night music is taken care of!

NO costly DJs or extra equipment required!

Twist and Shout.

Travel back to the Summer of Love with the psychedelic sounds of the 60s.

Tracks include: Aretha Franklin – Respect, Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup and The Rolling Stone – Satisfaction.  Peace, man!

Carwash.

Carwash will have your party fans panting for more after strutting their funky stuff to the party pumping beats of the 70s.

Tracks include: ABBA – Dancing Queen, Carl Douglas – Kung Fu Fighting and The Jacksons – Blame it on The Boogie!

Club Tropicana.

Embrace the sweeeet synthetic sounds of the 80s with Wham! – I’m Your Man, Human League – Fascination and Black Box – Rise on Time!

Hot Stepper.

Get your glowsticks ready!  This 90s playlist is da BOMB!!

Tracks to take you back to the ultimate decade of dance including Stereo Mcs – Step It Up, Corona - Rhythm of The Night and Terrovision – Tequila.

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Your June Update Highlights!

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Your June update is packed with new music and videos, karaoke, quizzes and marketing support. Simply click on the links below for more information.

Click here for New Releases and Pre Release Tracks

Included on the 0512 Update are an incredible 13 pre-released video tracks, along with the rest of your Videos!

• Alexandra Burke – Let It Go
• Lawson – When She Was Mine
• Pure Love – Bury My Bones
• Rihanna – Where Have You Been
• Gotye – Eyes Wide Open
• Jessie Ware – 110%
• Ladyhawke – Sunday Drive
• Marcus Collins – Mercy
• Nelly Furtado – Big Hoops (bigger the better)
• Chery Cole – Call My Name
• Stooshe – Black Heart
• David Guetta – Alphabeat
• Kaiser Chiefs – On The Run

Click here for this month’s Albums

The following Albums are on this month’s Audio update:

• Jack White – Blunderbuss
• Labrinth – Electronic Earth

Click here for Quiz Updates

Print your quiz questions and to take a look which quizzes you’ll be receiving this month.

Special Quiz Rounds:

• Queens Jubilee
• Fathers Day
• Music Festivals

Video Request Sheets

Update your Video books with the latest video update list.

Karaoke Request Sheets

Update your Karaoke books with the latest karaoke update list.

London Olympics 2012: Make sure your customers choose your pub for every big event!

 All eyes will be on the London Olympic Games this summer! Get involved in this historic event in your pub!

Read on to find out how you can keep your customers coming back for each of the big events, starting with the Opening Ceremony…..

Preparation Time: 30 minutes deciding your events (pick from the list below)

Cooking Time: 2 hours planning and organising (this will pay off when you have a full pub)

Serves: Your regulars and their friends

Ingredients

• Advertise: Your Vidimixer gives you the advantage of advertising on screen. Make sure you have adverts showing during your busy periods leading up to the Opening Ceremony so your customer choose your pub on the big day!
• Quiz: A fantastic Olympics quiz round will be on your 0712 Quiz Update so make sure you update!
• Collect Numbers: This is the perfect opportunity to build your Promotional SMS database so you can text all of your athletics fans. Create an advert for your screens displaying a Olympics related question. Ask your customers to text in their answer for the chance to win a great prize!
• Send Promo Texts: Text out to the numbers you have collected for the chance to redeem great offers including food and drinks offers and priority seating. Keep sending the texts throughout the Games for all the big events!
• Playlists: Put together a playlist to create an atmosphere which your customers will keep coming back to!

Method

1. Decide on the ingredients you are going to use.
2. Start advertising the Opening Ceremony now, making sure your customers know exactly why they should be watching it with you.
3. Plan your on screen question and make sure your staff can explain to your customers how to text in.
4. Update your Quiz Disk and print out the quiz questions on our website.
5. Send out text with details of offers they won’t be able to refuse!

Here’s One We Made Earlier…

Times have not yet been released for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, so these times are only guidelines.

5.00pm: Start building the hype! Put on tour Olympics playlist.

6.00pm: Make sure your staff know what offers may be redeemed from the text promotions and incentivise them to promote the Olympics Quiz.

6.30am: Let the Games commence (on your TVs)!

9.00pm: Begin your Olympics Quiz for the chance to win an amazing prize.

Join the Conversation

We’d love to hear for you….

What do you have planned for the Olympics in your pub?

What effect will the Olympics have on your pub?

Leave us a comment on anything you like or ask a question and we’ll get back to you!

New and coming soon… Song selection made brilliant!

Living for the weekend… Awesome, new and free, expertly profiled weekend DJ playlists

Your customers live for the weekend and music is one of the most important deciding factors for them when they are choosing where they’ll be spending their leisure time. 

Creating the right atmosphere can be both a challenge and expensive and you cannot get away from how important really successful weekend sessions can be for a pub.

Be creative, and put some love and thought into the music you play on a weekend and your customers will love you right back! Create the right atmosphere and you’ll be a weekend hero meaning your customers will visit more often and stay longer. 

If you can have great weekend DJ playlists without expensive DJ costs you’ll have happy customers and a happy business!

So here’s what we’ve done…

We’ve worked together with the Soundnet profiling team to create 12 great new weekend DJ playlists covering all of the most popular party night themes. We’re backing them up with some great branded marketing tools including on screen adverts and printable fliers. 

• Twist & Shout - 60s
• Car Wash – 70′s
• Club Tropicana – 80′s
• Hot Stepper – 90′s
• The Time Tunnel - 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
• Regulate - RnB & Rap
• Smells Like Teen Spirit - Rock
• Move On UP - Soul
• Hallelujah - Indie/Brit Pop
• Drop It Like It’s Hot - DJ Weekend
• Cheese Feast - Cheesy
• This Is Jam Hot - 80s, 90s, 00s Dance

All you need to do is choose the theme that’s right for you and your customers and let us know when you’d like the playlist to start and we’ll take care of both the playlist and on screen advert scheduling. You could say we’ve done all the hard work for you!

We’ll be posting more details over the coming weeks to give you the information you need to get your staff clued up and promoting your weekend sessions. 

We’ll be in contact soon to see what profiles you’d like, but if you can’t wait you can let us know sooner by calling 0845 2032727

The Ashes: A VIP Event your customers won’t want to miss!

Read on to find out how you can make The Ashes a VIP event for your customers and keep them coming back for every test match….and beyond!

Preparation Time: 30 minutes deciding your events (pick from the list below)

Cooking Time: 2 hours planning and organising (this will pay off when you have a full pub)

Serves: Your regulars and their friends

Ingredients

• Advertise: Create some excitement for your Ashes events by creating on screen adverts! There are some great images on your Vidimixer to choose from.

• Australian/England Playlist Theme: Combined with food and a dress code, an Australian and England playlist is the perfect way to create an amazing themed atmosphere!

• Quiz: A special Ashes Quiz round is available on your 0712 quiz disk so don’t forget to update! Make sure you have some great prizes for the winner!

• VIP area competition: Offer a VIP area with waitress service.

• SMS prize draw: Encourage your customers to text in the word ‘Ashes’ to enter the prize draw to win the VIP area! Announce the winner before the match begins by selecting a number from your Vidimixer SMS Manager. Offer other runner up prizes throughout the day to keep everyone else involved too.

Method

1. Create your Ashes on screen advert and make sure it’s showing on your screens!
2. Decide on your promotion to get people into your pub.
3. Create your Ashes playlist. For a guide on how to create a playlist, click here
4. Make sure you have the Ashes quiz round on your Vidimixer. If you don’t, update your quiz disk.
5. Send out your Promotional SMS.

Here’s One We Made Earlier…

10.00am:  Announce the winner of your VIP Area Prize!

10.45am: Once your VIPs and your other customers are settled in, put on your screens and let the games commence!

12.30am – 6.30pm: Announce the winners of your other prizes. They can be anything from a meal to a free drink, or even a free raffle ticket to play Beer or No Beer.

7pm: Start your Ashes Quiz for the chance to win a fantastic prize. Maybe you could offer the quiz winner the VIP area for the next Test Match!

Join the Conversation

We’d love to hear for you….

Are you showing the Ashes in your pub?

Is cricket popular in your pub?

Leave us a comment on anything you like or ask a question and we’ll get back to you!

Find out why The Ben Lomond’s customers love Vidimixer karaoke

Karaoke at The Ben Lomond

• Ian, the manager of the Ben Lomond, uses Vidimixer Karaoke on a Thursday and Saturday night.
• He creates a very relaxed atmosphere by giving his customers the option to either singing from their table or, if they prefer an audience, choosing a spot in the centre of the pub.
• Ian’s assistant manager, Alison, gets the karaoke started by showing off her own vocal skills on the mic first.
• Ian runs other competitions and plays music between karaoke songs to keep his customers longer.

How Vidimixer helped….

• Ian’s customers love that there are 1000′s of tracks to choose from.
• Vidimixer means karaoke is instantly available as an on demand event.
• Ian’s customers can see the words on the screens anywhere in the pub so they can perform wherever they feel most comfortable.

The challenges….

• Ian advertises on screen, using posters and through word of mouth but he says that it did take time to build the customer numbers. Despite this challenged, Ian continued to offer karaoke and has definitely seen the benefits…

The benefits….

• Ian has seen a definite increase in customers numbers on a Thursday and Saturday since he started his karaoke.
• He has been able to create unique and on demand karaoke nights using Vidimixer.

Ian’s advice on using Vidimixer’s karaoke

• Talk to your customers about your events to get them involved. Leave the karaoke books on the tables and take the time to explain to your customers how to request tracks.
• Always make sure you have staff members working on your karaoke nights who are comfortable with getting up and start the night by singing.

Join the conversation

How do you use karaoke in your pub?

What effect has karaoke had in your pub?

Leave us a comment on anything you like or ask a question and we’ll get back to you!