Ubetoo is a social networking website aimed towards musicians and filmmakers who want to earn money from their work. The service is divided in streaming and distribution.

Monetized music and video streaming

All music and videos on Ubetoo Streaming are free to listen to and watch. Financing is done through advertising. The service is open only to artists who are not tied with the film, record labels or music publishers, if they do not have their permission. Each time a unique visitor plays a song or video guaranteed by the author to a fraction of monthly income. On May 27, 2011, 9600 artists had uploaded a total of 44,000 contributions on the site.

Digital music distribution

Any streaming member on Ubetoo can upgrade to a digital music distribution account to sell their music on digital music download services like iTunes

ITunes

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, Amazon MP3

Amazon MP3

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, Napster

Napster

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, Spotify

Spotify

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, eMusic

EMusic

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, Beatport

Beatport

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 and more than 500 other music services around the globe. The distribution service is subject to a charge and open to either unsigned artists or independent labels.

The company

The company, Ubetoo AB was founded in 2008 by Anna-Clara Blixt Modin as a subsidiary of North European entertainment industry job portal StagePool AB. Behind the boot is the company's CEO, Anna-Clara Blixt Modin and Development Director Thomas Flores, who also founded the parent company StagePool. Operational partners by StagePool and Ubetoo include Kristofer Arwin (Pricerunner

PriceRunner

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) and Ola Lauritzson (GI Viktkoll) but also Björn Ulvaeus

Björn Ulvaeus

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 and Joop van den Ende

Joop van den Ende

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.

Ubetoo is a much similar service to the service run by mp3.com

MP3.com

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in the early years after year 2000.