Music

Considering A Digital Music Solution? Choose GAD’s AMI Jukebox
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So much more than the tradition juke box that played a selection of music. The AMI Digital Juke Box solution can do so much more. Here’s just a few innovative ideas:

  • AMI’s background music solution add on feature keeps the music going. Let AMI seamlessly play background music until a paid selection is made. This way you reduce your human DJ needs, increase your patrons selecting their own music and have a revenue stream on top of it all.
  • AMI takes care of all your ASCAP reporting. You can program less expensive music selections in the slow parts of your day and pump it up as the busier day parts hit. This way you maximize your music spend and streamline reporting.
  • Add on your trivia games with AMI. This way you have a single solution to your week. AMI can appear on all your screens and run the game for you.
  • Advertise specials at a moments notice. Want to run a food special to keep people in your place? AMI has an app that allows your managers to have specials ready to post at a moment’s notice. This way you can anticipate your kitchen’s pace so you please both your staff with larger receipts and your customers with specials.
  • Set up incentives for you staff to use the juke box as well. This is available to sign up for on AMI’s website.
  • AMI is your partner. Once your customer has the AMI app, they are engaged to purchase music, participate in AMI contests and get rewards from AMI. This gets more out of your AMI revenue stream.

Contact GAD to find out more on how the AMI digital juke box solutions can work for you.

Your Commercial Establishment is Missing Out if You Don’t Have AMI
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What’s on tap? AMI ad manager for bars, venues and restaurants around the country. GAD sells AMI through various channels. You may be referred to one of our quality partners to provide your AMI Digital Jukebox.

AMI ad manager is compatible with all AMI digital systems, AMI jukeboxes and Tap TV.

AMI Ad Manager is a promotional tool that transforms your AMI products into powerful digital signage systems. It’s a great tool for businesses looking to promote their services, daily specials, or upcoming events.

You can create, edit, and schedule ads from the palm of your hand using AMI’s all-new Co-Pilot app or from your computer.

With over a thousand pre-made templates to choose from, and an easy-to-use interface, it takes just minutes for installers, business owners, or designated location staff members to build a rotation of custom digital signage.

  • Begin by choosing from a library of pre-made ad templates, easily searchable by keyword, theme, or event type
  • Personalize the messaging with your own custom text
  • Target a specific audience (families, happy hour, late night crowd, etc.) by setting its date range and hours of display
  • Publish your ad!

You can even upload and schedule your own custom-made images for display via the AMI operator website.

If you are missing AMI Ad Manager, talk with your GAD rep today. 

Are You Ready For Tap TV?
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Tap TV Trivia reinvents the traditional game show – turning the television audience into real-time contestants. That’s right – we put YOUR customers on TV. Patrons face off against trivia fans from around the country, while earning themselves, and your business, a spot on our national leaderboards. Set up tournaments to drive patron engagement, extend dwell time and boost repeat business as customers return to improve their score and move up in the rankings!

Connect your customers with fun, fast-paced trivia action without the hassle of buying or renting tablets and other controllers.

With the Tap TV app in hand, our players use their own smartphone to answer questions that appear on in-store TVs connected to our media player. With multiple categories and tens of thousands of entertaining questions, Tap TV Trivia has a game for every type of trivia aficionado. Setting up and running trivia tournaments builds on the app’s power to keep patrons engaged.

Ask GAD how this works! GAD Knows AMI Tap TV

Looking for Digital Music? GAD Has The Solutions for You
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AMI Co Pilot Owner App

GAD recommends the AMI Co Pilot app for our digital music venues. What can the AMI Co Pilot app do for you?

  • Check digital music revenue
  • Remote control your venue’s digital delivery systems (TV’s and sound system)
  • Program different types of music based on day parts
  • Reject songs (ie reject for offensive language in a family establishment)
  • Control bumper music when a live band comes on/takes a break
  • AMI Ad Manager Tools

Learn more and download the app at AMI. 

AMI User Music App

Make your customers’ user experience immersive! You and your patrons can control the music, vibe and playlists. This can change through the evening and is a great way to add a revenue channel to your bar, restaurant, store or arcade.

Users get ease of pay, a wide music/music video selection and AMI helps promote use through user contests and promotions. Here’s how:

  • Easy for users to pay for music – credit card, PayPal or Apple Pay.
  • A wide library of music and music videos makes this app a winner.
  • You, as the AMI owner, can limit the song selections or change the popular list.
  • AMI offers bonuses on users music purchases. Promotes user contests. And allows users to personalize their AMI experience.

Learn more and download the AMI Music App here. 

If you have questions if AMI digital music and jukeboxes are right for you, and you are located in Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas, call GAD for customer service. GAD knows music.

AMI Digital Music Newest Promotion
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AMI digital music is a venue’s best friend. And here’s how:

  • Digital music
  • Adds to a live DJ
  • Tracks music for ASCAP reporting
  • Runs promotions and ads
  • Allows customers to pay for music they want to play
  • Trivia games
  • Music videos
  • And, AMI helps promote their own product with giveaways on their app

Most current promotion for July 2022:

AMI celebrates the music of Kehlani by giving away two exclusive prizes in their latest contest. The Grand Prize winner will receive a Kehlani “Altar” hoodie, an autographed art card, and Kehlani’s latest CD, Blue Water Road. One runner up will also receive a signed art card and CD, plus a Kehlani long-sleeve t-shirt. This giveaway runs July 1, 2022 through July 13, 2022. Everyone can enter using the AMI Music app, available on iOS and Android. Contest entry is also available on any participating AMI Jukebox.

Kehlani was born and raised in Oakland, California. At home, they were surrounded by R&B and soul music. Powerful female vocalists like Lauryn Hill, Erykah Badu, and Jill Scott are cited as some of their biggest early influences. At school, Kehlani was serious about dance and had their sights focused on studying at Julliard until being sidetracked by a knee injury. Switching gears from dancing, they were soon recruited into Poplyfe- a local singing group, at the age of 14.

Poplyfe experienced success in and around Oakland but were exposed to a national audience when they appeared on season six of the competition reality show America’s Got Talent, in 2011, where they finished fourth. Perhaps the biggest takeaway from the show was judge Piers Morgan telling Kehlani “You’ve got real talent, but I don’t think you need the group.” As fate would have it, Poplyfe soon disbanded because of mismanagement and contract disputes, and Kehlani became a solo artist.

It was 2013 when Kehlani released their first single on Soundcloud. “ANTISUMMERLUV” was popular on the streaming platform, and once Nick Cannon–who was a judge on AGT–heard it, he brought them out to Los Angeles, arranged an apartment and paid for studio time. Kehlani quickly released their first mixtape–Cloud 19 in 2014. The rest of the pieces easily fell into place and by 2018, They were the opening act on Demi Lovato’s “Tell Me You Love Me” world tour. Kehlani has also been featured on chart-topping tracks with some of pop’s biggest names: Charlie Puth, Cardi B, and Justin Bieber.

Currently, their “Blue Water Road” tour kicks off on July 30th in Raleigh, North Carolina and travels across the US, then to the UK, New Zealand, and Australia. AMI is excited to offer fans the opportunity to win some signed Kehlani merchandise. For a limited time, AMI jukeboxes will also be featuring a playlist of their songs. Everyone is encouraged to check out the playlist and enter the contest using the AMI Music app or by visiting a nearby AMI jukebox venue.

Past AMI app merchandise promotions included:

  • June 2022 Warren Zeiders
  • April 2022 Fontaines D.C.
  • March 2022 Keith Richards
  • Jan 2022 Motorhead

GAD Knows AMI Entertainment. Let us help you create an immersive music experience.

A 5-Step Money Making Commercial Arcade Game Ideas (That Anyone Can Follow)
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Arcades came in to fashion in the early 1900’s with the creation of the pinball machine. But it took until the 1970’s for video games to storm the scene. Since, there has been steady evolution of arcade games, crane games (claw games), video style games and pinball.

No longer are arcades limited to just their physical premise. With an internet connection, gamers can play their friends anywhere in the world. A player in Omaha can direct challenge their buddy in Kansas City. Join tournaments anywhere in the world. Play a local traveling tournament. And create accounts to follow the player from home to arcade.

With the wide variety of games and the connection to the internet, there is so much more to attract (and retain) customers for longer times.

Step 1 Cleanliness

Brought in with COVID, players want assurance of a clean environment to play. Make sure to clean your machines regularly during the day, have hand sanitizer stations and deep clean before opening. But be cautious with the type of cleaning chemicals you use – some chemicals can damage the graphics. Cleaning product manufacturer suggested guidelines are available through GAD.

Here are additional ideas you can use to ensure cleanliness:

  • Offer your players additional wipes for their own secondary sanitation.
  • Spread out your games for social distancing.
  • Check with your state or local health department for current guidelines.

Step 2 Location, Location, Location

Arcade machines make revenue in two ways. One, players paying to play. And, two, people staying longer to watch play and ordering more food/drinks in your establishment.

  • Choose high traffic locations that draw players over.
  • Add a game with lots of LED’s and great sound to a dark corner.
  • Capture your own “Shots of the Week” or “High Score” and promote across your TV’s through your AMI digital music system.
  • Choose games that others can watch game play from a safe distance.
  • Place games toward the back of the room to draw players further into your establishment. Make it convenient for people to stay longer.

Step 3 Consider a Table Games vs Console

When you review the floor plan for your arcade games, consider replacing a regular table with an arcade table. This creates a paying space in an awkward area.

  • Playing a console table – or not, it’s a table. (And, GAD’s newest Classic-Cade is over 60 games on one table.)
  • Consider adding a large table game like shuffleboard, or pool to utilize space toward the back of the room or fill an awkward space.
  • Add a foosball table in a space that you’d lose to social distancing regulations.

Do the math of one normal table vs. revenues from a game table. Patrons in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri tend to be active and like to play!

Step 4 Passive Income vs Active Income

Some business owners consider arcade games as a source of passive income. Or just an expensive way to entertain customers. And, that’s okay. But why not take an active approach to adding revenue and attracting repeat patrons?

  • Tournaments
    • Host a progressive tournament.
    • Golden Tee and G3 Galaxy Fire Electronic Darts run international tournaments online.
  • Leagues
  • Specials Night
  • Shot of the Week
  • Progressive Games
  • Trivia Games

Step 5 Take It Outside

Most bars and restaurants have maximized their outdoor space for eating and drinking. With social distancing, some had opened up parking lots, neighboring spaces and other creative additional spaces. And, you may be keeping these spaces open. How about adding games to those areas?

  • Basketball Shot Contest
  • Table Arcade Games
  • Foosball
  • Trivia Games through your AMI Jukebox System
  • Move your darts outdoors – adding wind could make it that much more challenging

As a business owner, it is essential to maximize floor space, follow health and safety guidelines and keep your patrons happy. Not an easy task but well worth the effort.

Need games in a hurry? ATM machine? Parts to fix existing games? GAD is a stocking distributor of pinball and games. Each of our locations have parts in stock. Our offices are located in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City.

Digital Music

How To Add a Machine to Maximize High Traffic Areas
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Own a commercial facility? Bar? Restaurant? Mall? Retail Store? Arcade? High foot traffic area? Apartment complex? Office?

Looking to gain more automated cash flow without adding staff? Need something socially distancing that can be easily cleaned?

If you own or manage a space with lots of people passing through that you want to capture interest and revenue, read on……

It is expensive to get people to show up at your facility. You work at advertising, marketing, customer service, cleanliness, social distancing regulations, best product mix and everything else to get and retain customers. (Customer can be defined as – customer, tenant, employees, shoppers, staff, client – whoever it is that you want to engage.) So anything you can do to further engage – and profit from – your foot traffic is critical.

Add strategic machines to solve problems and create ROI!

ATM

A free standing ATM in a high traffic area can = profit!

  • You can charge a transaction fee.
  • You can reduce credit card fees by encouraging customers to pay in cash.
  • You can reduce employee time by allowing customers to self service for cash.
  • You can add additional revenue to other games, pinball or machines with cash access.

What should you consider? ATM’s generally cash flow in one or more of the following conditions:

  • 150 people through the doors daily,
  • when you are encouraging cash tips to staff,
  • you are looking to provide a service to your customer,
  • when it’s cheaper to have an unattended operation or unattended during off hours,
  • and/or when there are cash based services nearby.

CLAW/CRANE GAMES

Claw (Crane) games with non-ticket redemption (no tickets to mess with) is an ideal addition to a family based establishment. These are the cabinet games with stuffed animals with a movable claw that picks up a toy and delivers to the player.

  • Ideal for a restaurant waiting area where families gather.
  • Include in an apartment clubhouse that caters to families.
  • Add to an arcade, game room or family lounge area.
  • Stand alone machine in a pizza restaurant.

To maximize profit – keep you claw game maintained and well stocked. Keep your machine clean – not only by the restocking vendor but employees should clean between every patron. Post a hand sanitizer or wipes nearby.

GAD Vending sells and maintains claw machines in MO, KS, NE and IA. GAD Vending does not stock claw games but we can suggest companies that do.

DIGIAL MUSIC/JUKEBOX

No great party experience is complete without great music!

The new digital music jukeboxes have amazing capabilities that add to your user immersive experience – and can reduce expenses.

Digital music can be a new profit center:

  • Allow users to be the DJ and pay for their favorite tracks (and associated music videos) to play.
  • Run specials through your music software.
    • Promote specials
    • Tease holiday events
    • Pop Up specials
  • Sell advertising.
  • Appeals to all generations. The online music catalogs, along with associated video, is extensive.

Digital music software can reduce costs:

  • Bundles your trivia games into your software cost.
  • Replaces canned background music and can be programmed to change song selections thru the various day parts.
  • Supports karaoke.
  • Tracks your music play.
    • Music licensing companies assume you are playing music 100% of the time to 100% of your occupancy. Digital music tracks the exact songs played and creates a digital report so you pay on what you play.
  • Pre-programs available to eliminate DJ’s.

Digital music adds energy to unexpected places:

  • Add a digital jukebox to the front door of your retail store. Instead of elevator music, this adds the option to change music styles as you choose – or as your customers choose on their phone.
  • Add a digital jukebox in an employee lounge area. GAD Vending can program a free play option.
  • Add a digital jukebox to a restaurant/bar that changes from Baby Boomers to Millennial over the course of the evening.

Music to your ears? GAD Vending knows digital music and speaker installation.

VENDING MACHINES

Vending machines allow the owner to provide refreshment options without adding employees.

Try a mixed product vending machine – one machine offering drinks and snacks. A healthy option vending machine. Coffee vending machine. Or a simple bottle water vending machine. Whatever your customers are most looking for. This can free up employees to wait on customers with more complex needs.

Add vending machines in a high traffic area like by restrooms, lounge areas or break rooms. Anywhere customers or employees look to rest for a moment.

Add customer confidence! Use touchless payment – and even touchless ordering – using a smartphone app. This allows customers the cleanest, least touch options.

GAD Vending sells and repairs vending machines. Our warehouses have vending machines in stock with parts to configure a machine that best fits your needs. We have sales and service personnel in Kansas City, Omaha and Des Moines.

GOLDEN TEE PGA TOUR

Just like with a claw game for kids – Golden Tee PGA Tour is an ideal stand alone game machine.

Golden Tee PGA Tour is available in both commercial and home use versions. And, Golden Tee has a long established software upgrade schedule.

Add a single Golden Tee PGA Tour game to an entry way, low use/high visibility area.  Golden Tee PGA Tour is essential to an arcade, game room, pinball area. Add Golden Tee PGA Tour tournaments with their worldwide software support.

MONEY CHANGERS

Money changers are for customers that need to change bill-to-bill, bill-to-coin, pay stations and bill/coin counters. Add next to an ATM to give your customers self service capabilities.

Concerned about money changer and ATM security? Ask GAD Vending for security suggestions (we don’t publish security suggestions!)

If you have an unattended business like a car wash, coin operated laundry, or arcade, you need GAD Vending. GAD Vending inventories new money handling machines in our warehouses in Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City. Our service techs also have parts to fix money changers.

GAD VENDING

At GAD Vending, we sell and service a variety of vending, games, ATM and other machines. We stock new and used machines at our warehouses in Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas City. And, we service machines. Call us at (402) 553-2812 to find out what we can do for you!

NEW! AMI Co-Pilot App
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Designed for those that own a route with lots of AMI customers or the manager with multiple locations. This app does so much for you.

Operator Features

AMI Co-Pilot is a powerful mobile tool for operators and AV installers always on the go. Simply download the app and sign in with your AMI Operator Website credentials to view route connections, check revenue, access contact information, get driving directions, add/edit location managers, control installed systems, and more!

Venue Controls

Common actions previously done by using the remote control provided with your jukebox are now built into AMI Co-Pilot! Reject unwanted songs, power your device on and off during bands or sporting events, and even reboot your jukebox right from your own phone.

AMI Ad Manager Support

AMI Co-Pilot also includes an optimized version of our widely popular Ad Manager tool. In four quick steps, operators, installers, business owners and staff can create and schedule digital signage promoting their own goods and services! Ads created on your phone appear within minutes on your AMI equipment.

Want a demo? Need more information? GAD knows AMI!

Want to know more about AMI’s Ultra Music Video Jukebox?
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GAD Knows Digital Music

When you are looking for an immersive experience to change up your client’s experience – and how long they stay – talk with GAD. From AMI digital music solutions and speakers, GAD knows how to install music to all your different zones.

Maybe music in the ladies bathroom and sports in the men’s? Want background music? Want to save on music licensing fees during the slow hours? Your customers can even be the DJ all night long.

AMI digital music also has a full range of trivia, games, contests and advertising you can use to promote business. GAD knows how to train your staff how to use AMI’s dashboard to run specials, promote quick games to keep people in the bar and promote upcoming specials.

GAD knows digital music solutions.

Mick Fleetwood and Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green in AMI’s Latest Giveaway
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11 Jun 2021

AMI’s Grand prize is a Mick Fleetwood and Friends deluxe edition box set.

AMI announced their most recent giveaway, in recognition of the 2020 live music event honoring guitarist Peter Green. One lucky fan will win the Mick Fleetwood and Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac super deluxe edition box set. The set comes with remastered audio recordings from the February 2020 concert on 4 LPs and 2 CDs. The set also includes a Blu-ray disc and 44-page book pack of images from the show. The contest is open June 11, 2021 through June 23, 2021. Music fans can enter the contest using the AMI Music app, available on iOS and Android. Contest entry is also available on any participating AMI jukebox.

Peter Green got his start in music at the age of 15, playing bass professionally in a number of cover bands in and around London. It was only after seeing how Eric Clapton expertly played his Les Paul, that he was persuaded to switch from bass to guitar. Green then got the chance of a lifetime when asked to take over lead guitar in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers when Clapton left the band. A year later, Green had assembled a new band with former Bluesbreakers Mick Fleetwood and Jeremy Spencer. Fleetwood Mac was quickly signed to their first record deal and soon after achieved their first UK #1 with their song “Albatross.”

Green officially left the band in 1970 but continued on with solo and side projects. Over the years that followed, he had multiple uncredited appearances on various Fleetwood Mac recordings, including their experimental double album, Tusk. When Mick Fleetwood began to discuss the idea of a tribute to Green and the early years of their band, he found no shortage of rock guitarists who cited Green as a major influence. Some of the big names from the project include David Gilmour, Christine McVie, Steven Tyler, Bill Wyman, Noel Gallagher, and Kirk Hammett. Said Fleetwood: “The concert is a celebration of those early blues days where we all began and it’s important to recognize the profound impact Peter and the early Fleetwood Mac had on the world of music. Peter was my greatest mentor and it gives me such joy to pay tribute to his incredible talent.”

AMI is proud to offer fans of Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, and Fleetwood Mac a chance at winning this prize. Everyone is encouraged to enter the contest using the AMI Music app or by asking GAD where the closest AMI jukebox venue is in Nebraska, Kansas City and Iowa.

GAD Vending

Greater America Distributing (GAD Vending) is your premier marketer of vending equipment and amusement games in Mid America.  The company has been operating for over 30 years with offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Kansas City, Missouri; and Grimes, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines.

Omaha

6161 Grover Street, Omaha,
NE 68106

1-402-553-2812
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1-402-553-2812
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Kansas City

3230 Roanake Road, Kansas City,
MO 64111

1-816-531-4300
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Des Moines

2105 SE 37 Street, Grimes,
Iowa 50111

1-515-278-4455
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