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MINNEAPOLIS, July 25, 2020 / PRNewswire / – UrbanBridgez.com, one of the main urban pages online, celebrates its 15th anniversary. In 2005, led through Aries Dendy, founder/CEO and President Jason Richards, Urban Bridgez Group (UBG) presented the vision of tackling multimedia, marketing and the creation of a more lifestyle-oriented electronic magazine. The corporate and online website was introduced in August 2005. The logo began with a new e-zine UrbanBridgez.com and a consumer list for UBG that included Ray J and Tasha Scott, who signed up for multimedia projects with the new logo.
Aries began T M H Entertainment after graduating from McNally -Smith College for Music Business in Minneapolis. A bulletin board was born in 1998 and a full online page introduced in 1999. In 2005, the logo call replaced Urban Bridgez Group (UBG).
Since its launch, UBG has worked with many clients in implementation marketing, online page design, logos, radio campaigns, popular marketing promotion, while lately managing the 3 R-B online page. Who conducted interviews with artists in music, television and film. It also introduces new artists, features loose screenings of movies/TV series, provides the latest news from urban entertainment and, of course, plays new music and highlights the big names on the R-B.
“In the fall, we seek to host this kind of birthday party for the anniversary,” Aries says. “However, of course, with the pandemic and everything that’s going on, it’s over. We will have a virtual birthday party with the audience of our site, as well as with prominent visitors later this year.”
To this day, UrbanBridgez.com has remained true to the roots of the site, built with T M H Entertainment and then continued with T M Hxone. It is motivated by the R-B and the other people who actually make a stopover on the site. “We have a turn or die for real, definitions of the first few days,” Jason said. ‘Some have been here since ’98’, they came aboard before me, in fact, on the T M H Boards. It was the original online place to talk about urban music. Before any other room or social platform,” Jason continued.
As of this Sunday, July 26, 2020, UB will provide its new logo #UBPodcast. The first episode is called “A Messy Start”. In the coming months, AriesUBG and the co-host will present the episodes on the sponsored podcast. Celebrities will be guest hosts in the future, as well as other talents for joint interviews. The weekly podcast will provide the latest entertainment news, a preview of the new music and the UBG host will communicate about the UBG and T M H logos and misconceptions that have been around for many years.
“We’ve had everything from public beefs with former clients, to being stolen from and owed money by other clients,” Aries remembers. “With the podcast we finally get the chance to address those things. A lot has been said, but the truth and full stories from our point of view have yet to be and of course we have all of the receipts,” Aries continued. A Documentary on AriesUBG and his 20 Year Journey in the Music Industry, is coming in November. “In the doc, I just really lay everything out on the table,” Aries says. “I have a book coming in 2022, so the full stories on some of that are being saved for that, but the doc will detail them all while telling the story of me and how I got here,” Aries says.
On the e-zine side, “There are artists we do not support any longer, due to their teams or them and their interactions with us,” Aries states. “These days representatives get in their feelings and block their clients from publications like ours. Making the job they were hired to do about them and their personal feelings, instead of the client they’re working for.” Aries laughs, “Everybody wants to be an influencer these days, they want that 5 minute appearance on their clients reality show, more than impressing them by going over and beyond for their actual job!”
With many rich messages over the last 6 months and an active mailing list from the first e-zine, it is one of the first online sites. Started in 1999, the list has accumulated more than 500K registered with active emails. Not to mention a superior investment in Google searches and news… UB traffic may not be better. However, social media figures can be. “Most sites are more involved with social media posts than with the online page they created, we never need to be that,” says Aries. “I also have a saying, that this is not the number of fans you have Array … is who’s hitting you,” Aries said. “We have some of the greatest talents in the world that accompany us on social media, basically Twitter. Following us has more effect on our visibility and discovery than having many fans with fewer fans combined with a bunch of fakes,” he said. Aries. The evidence in the pudding.
Some of those talents after UB and AriesUBG include; Barack Obama, Ellen DeGeneres, Jimmy Jam, Recording Academy / GRAMMYs, Gloria Gaynor, Kandi, Earnest Pugh, Sonja Norwood, BMI, ExtraTV, Yahoo Music, VH1, Power 105.1 (NYC), HuffPost BlackVoices, Popdust and the wonderful Eddie MoneyArray
“Unlike many of these new brands, we don’t have social media to attract other people to our e-zine.” Jason said: “Our site was here before social media, so we never need it to succeed. However, that’s all we’re doing more this year. Higher numbers on social media make marketing specialists who don’t know more, think about it, are your real fans and the other people you,” Jason said. “That’s not the case and we’ll soon discuss why in the podcast, however, the higher numbers seem higher in terms of appearance,” Jason said.
This month, UB presented #DivaFriday, video interviews with talented women in the entertainment industry. She performed through singer R-B Shanice and her husband, actor and comedian Flex Washington, as well as singer and actress Tasha Scott and new singer R-B Porcelan.
Yesterday, July 24, Trenyce of American Idol gave the impression in #UBLive #DivaFriday of talking about her first single release.
In August, superwoman Karyn White and singers Brandy and Ledisi will go to #DivaFriday to tell UB all about their new albums with the logo “b7” and “The Wild Card”. Also talk about other topical topics, adding #BLM
For more than 15 years, UrbanBridgez.com’s vision has come true. UB has gone from being a music-based site to an online urban lifestyle page that has interviewed some of the world’s most important stars, among others; Denzel Washington, Ciara, Bobby Brown, Kevin Hart, Marlon Waynes, Charlamagne Tha God, T.I, Regina Hall, Kelly Rowland, Issa Rae and beyond due to Dr. Roscoe Brown and Teena Marie.
Recent interviews have been conducted with Tyler Perry’s belet casts, The Oval and Bruh of Tyler Perry, as well as the legendary Clark Sisters, Coko, Jacquees, John P. Kee, Mtume, Robert Townsand, Shirley Murdock, TJ Jackson, James Fortune and Minneapolis- actress born Kimberly. Elise.
Music is, of course, the center of UrbanBridgez.com and, over the years, the e-zine has had the honor of presenting visitors to its First Listens site. Some of the songs that were created in UB include; Johnny Gill’s number one “Soul of A Woman,” with an introduction through Johnny himself, Stokley’s number one “She” and the singles who broke UrbanBridgez.com last year, Saweetie’s remix with Jhené Aiko and City Girls for “My Type.” Singles broke the visitation record, when he collected more than 2 million views as the only position to broadcast the track.
Tevin Campbell’s return single “Safer on The Ground” in 2016 was also a focus of attention for the e-zine. This month, UB created the new bachelor through R-B singer Porcelan “Grimey” and the bachelor return of R-B legend Tony Terry titled “Born 2 Luv Ya”, which was the single moment added to urban radio this week. Earlier this month, Ralph Tresvant, the lead singer of the new edition, also arrived at the venue of the time, only Beyonce. After creating his new bachelor “All Mine” with Johnny Gill on UB and appearing in a live interview with the e-zine, the day of its release.
Titles and first glances are also important in UB. The recent maxim, with the collaboration of Toni Braxton and Missy Elliott, first known through UrbanBridgez.com and shown on social media through Toni herself. Singles also a First Listen, the day before its release.
Some of First Looks’ sites included the canopy of the BET series “American Soul: The Story of Soul Train” prior to the release and the canopy of albums, release dates and track lists. Including the recent announcement of Clark Sisters’ album “The Return” with the album’s canopy and TV movie previews. This helped the site get more than a million views in April.
To crown the good fortune of the online page for the more than 15 years, they have also participated in primary fundamental marketing promotions. This includes loose screenings, such as the premiere of the hit Fox series “Empire” on the Mall of America. In addition, the launch of the marketing promotion of “What Men Want” through Taraji P. Henson, which reached $72.2 million, and “Bad Boys Forever” this year, which grossed more than $148 million. Both UB films had initial screenings in Minneapolis and had exclusive previews and gifts on UrbanBridgez.com in some of the films. Other projects included “Black Panther” and Pharrell Williams “DOPE”.
UrbanBridgez.com had the glorious thrill of helping Monica celebrate her birthday in Atlanta in October 2009, which included an exclusive interview. The UB has also covered primary events, award shows and level tours. Like “Family Time” by Bounce TV. Rewards; BET Awards, BET Hip Hop Awards and Black Music Honors for several years.
The UB press has been collected through some of the world’s largest news and entertainment organizations, others; Billboard, The Source, MTV, Perez Hilton, B Scott, Power 105.1, eurweb, musicserver.cz, The Inquisitr and Beyonce’s official website.
With Urban Bridgez Group as a whole, some of its existing customers and beyond come with BET, Paramount Pictures, Katt Williams, Faith Evans, Norwood-Norwood, Music World Entertainment, Blackground Records, KnockOut Entertainment; for Sonja Norwood, Brandy, radio host of MUTHAKNOWS, Ray J and 702. More marketing for Shanice, Trey Songz / Songz four Peace, Song Source Music Group, Allied, Empire and J Records.
In 15 years, Urban Bridgez Group and urbanbridgez.com have completed more of them in their lifetime, but according to them … they’re just getting started. “They gave us 15, with my intellectual aptitude problems beyond, and with the deaths in my circle of relatives and not to mention the problems of my own life. I’ve committed my life to this and we’re focused! We’re here and standing, we’re not going anywhere soon. Stay tuned for the rest! Aries says.
To be more informed about UBG: urbanbridgez.com ubgweb.com akilahdendy.com
ABOUT URBANBRIDGEZUrbanBridgez.com is an online music magazine for R-B and Hip-Hop. The site serves as an interface for urban pop culture that includes exclusive interviews, news, contests, lifestyle trends.
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