News Archive—December 2024
24 December 2024 - Pick My Postcode
[Permalink]Our single Christmas To Remember is featured on Pick My Postcode.
Pick My Postcode is a website with a 100% free lottery, based on UK postcodes. Every day, there are multiple draws in which people can win any amount between £5 and £200, although with rollovers, these winnings can grow. On top of that, every winner also gets paid a bonus, that increases by checking the draws, and by completing surveys. There have been cases of people winning thousands of pounds, simply by participating entirely for free.
One of the draws is called the 'Video Draw', and it's a draw where the winning postcode is revealed upon playing an embedded video. And it's on this draw where the PMP website has now chosen to feature our single.
Earlier this month, the B-side of the same single, Dance Under The Mistletoe, was also featured. It didn't cost us a penny to have our videos featured, but then we also don't get paid for it. We just see it as free promotion, and we've already seen some effects on our streaming figures since our video was first featured.
This is an excellent opportunity for us to test how well Pick My Postcode is as a promotional website, and we'll be giving an update once we have more data to reflect upon (for some reason, YouTube views haven't been updated for the past 12 days in our Amuse dashboard, so we can't tell how the feature has impacted streams yet). Be sure to check back here, or follow us on Bluesky if you're interested in this data as well.
22 December 2024 - Bluesky
[Permalink]We're officially on Bluesky.
In case you don't know what it is, Bluesky is a social network where people can post short statuses, and connect with people with whom they share interests. You might be under the assumption that such a network already exists. This is partially true, however that network has changed a lot these past few years, which led to a lot of people leaving the platform. So that's where Bluesky comes in. A social network that is what the other one once was, without the negativity that is now rife on the old one. We're happy to have joined Bluesky today, and we welcome you to follow our account @donkerbot.bsky.social.
05 December 2024 - Wrapped
[Permalink]We've not forgotten about you! And we hope you haven't forgotten about us either. It's been crazy. Due to events outside of our control, we basically lost all of our free time. We could not spend any time on writing new music, and so we had nothing new to report. We did release our traditional Christmas single in December last year, but we didn't even have time to write one this year. So we're sorry to say there is no new Christmas single this year.
Anyway, it's that time of year again that everybody's favourite music streaming platform we all agree to hate but still have to use has released its annual Wrapped feature. And this is ours:
We know, it's not very exciting, but we do have exciting news on the way (or so we hope), all the way from our friends across the pond, so stay tuned for that!