Here's another handy way to see only New Listings. Go to: http://www.taxi.com/industry.php?
Click Command -F, and you'll see a little field pop up (using Firefox it's in the lower left corner). If you type in New Listing, the up and down (or "next" ) arrows next to the field will let you scroll through only the new listings. Easy, breezy.
The reason we send out the reminder emails is because the vast majority of our members don't take the time to go through all the listings, and often miss opportunities. We've done the math, and found that listings that are highlighted in reminder emails get 40% more submissions than those which are not featured. Now, you might think that we do this to drive up submissions, but that's not the case. Remember, unlike virtually all the TAXI copycats, submission fees aren't a profit center for us. Why?
Because we pay many hundreds of thousands of dollars per year to the screeners. Submission fees in, screener fees out. It's essentially a wash. So unlike other companies that split submission fees with the people and companies running the listings, our profit isn't driven by submission fees. Frankly, we'd rather have fewer submissions, and see more that are on target. We also wonder about the motivation of companies that run "listings" with the copycats... are they really motivated to find great new music, or are they primarily motivated to get as many submissions as possible so they can make more profit?
When there are no screeners to pay (which I believe is the case at virtually all of the copycat sites), and the submission fees are split between the company running the listing and the site that posts them, more submissions are highly desirable. We were researching that recently, and in the process found about a dozen of TAXI's listings appearing on a very well known copycat's website. Any reasonable person would look at TAXI's listings in comparison to the listings on the other site, and quickly see that they were copied nearly word for word! Typos and all.
In most cases, the listings from TAXI had fairly quick deadlines, yet the copied listings on the other site often had open ended deadlines, presumably so they can get as many submissions as possible, which of course drives up income and profits. What's scary about the practice of stealing listings from the TAXI website and putting them on another website (beyond mere copyright infringement) is that there IS no company actually running the listings (or looking for music), so the people who submit are submitting to opportunities that in all likelihood don't even exist!
In other words, if the copycats don't know where TAXI's listings came from, and they don't have relationships with those same companies and people AT those companies, then what is the submitted music used for (if anything at all), and how do the copycat companies justify taking submission fees for opportunities that don't exist?
TAXI on the other hand, has always kept records of where and who our listings come from, plus emails and records of phone calls to show who the listings came from, and their authenticity. I would bet that the copycats don't... just sayin'! Maybe their sortable "New Listings" are new... newly copied from our website.
Hope this helps,
Michael
), when an email isn't for a new listing, Taxi has been starting the subject line of the email with "Reminder: "... I find that very helpful. That way I usually don't have to check to see if it's a listing I already submitted to.
Casey
