This for some reason gets a lot of attention, why?

As I understand (I may be wrong), Blazetrack basically is a critique service, with top notch music industry professionals, and the USP (unique selling point) is the video responses. So far so good, right?

I guess the only real thing in question is how much is the video response is worth, and that's up to each and everyone to decide.

Personally, I have a hard time finding this competitive with say an organization like SongU http://www.songu.com/ , who offers a killer critique service for their members for between 5-10$ each. And they too have top notch music industry professionals, songwriters who's had million dollar hits, grammy award winning producers and top shelf publishers in Nashville and other fine places. And they are willing to follow up ect. How Blazetrack can compete with that, I don't know! That's why I see their prices as way too steep. Some others seem to find it's worth it.

Why will I engange in that discussion? Because JPF is not a board for free commercials and uncritical celebration of any commercial company there is (if that was the premise for these forums, I would not be here), this is a public forum for songwriters! So, I think the "stay out of our business" rhetorics from Gregory is out of line and out of place, no matter how viable Blazetrack is or not!

As I see it, Blazetrack is not a competitor to Taxi either, as there are no real opportunities at Blazetrack. There's just endless rubberband rhetorics that can't be held accountable for anything - if we like it we do, if we don't we don't. At Taxi you will find real people and companies looking for music for particular artists who's recording and looking for material, and music supervisors who's looking for specific music to use in their projects, whether it's for a game, a movie, a tv show or some other application http://www.taxi.com/industry.php . That's WAY beyond a critique service! Taxi is about real market opportunities for real songwriters, musicians and producers, right now. They can be held accountable for what they offer!

Blazetrack is a critique service (that's the only claim they can be held accountable for), and to my knowledge the most expensive one, I've come across so far. So, to the songwriters out there on a budget, I will just say that there IMO are many other, just as good critique services out there, also with top notch music industry professionals, just not with video responses.

And I insist that this is a viable discussion in these foras, unless Brian Whitney says it isn't, because it's not my impression that this is a commercial forum for Blazetrack. That they must pay for themselves, where they can push their own product as much as they like.

I hate when public forums becomes places where free discussion is restricted, and the real things get distorted by particular commercial interests!