Digital distributor The Orchard has added six new apps to its Marketplace, which provides helpful tools to the company’s label clients. Here are the six: Act Local helps artists and labels build their own apps for various devices; DIY Music is a social commerce application for Facebook; Charitable Checkout helps artists raise money for charities through their fan communities; Link-Busters tracks down infringing links to music on social media services, blogs and torrent sites; ShoutEm is another DIY app creation platform, and SoundOut is the analytics tool for new music. The six apps are all available to The Orchard’s clients now.


