Creative Music Marketing: Unlocking Amatorski, Daft Punk x The 70s, Little Dragon Phones You
These days interesting music marketing approaches tend to include lots of experimentation with tech including Amatorski's use of an interactive page that unlocks music by the millisecond to encourage social media news sharing. Another creative use of current tech includes Little Dragon using Twilio to call fans. But Daft Punk's creating and promoting merch with 70's-style ads that do a nice job of capturing the ads and culture of that time. At the end of the day, both the past and the future remain fair game for creative music marketing.
Unlocking Amatorski
Amatorski's back with another bit of art marketing involving creative director Hilke Ros. Previous efforts include "Deleting Borders."
Amatorski will have a new album, "from clay to figures," available via iTunes April 14.
An unlock page, shown above, encourages you to spread the word about the website or upcoming release and, in the process, unlock additional milliseconds of individual tracks.
Daft Punk's 70's-Style Merch Ads
The official Daft Punk website currently features a variety of 70's style ads like the above thumbnail. Click on an ad and it takes you to the corresponding bit of merch.
When they change those up you can relive days of yore via Pitchfork.
Little Dragon Wants To Call You
We've previously covered Little Dragon's "Klapp Klapp" project designed to promote their upcoming release "Nabuma Rubberband."
But they recently reposted the project due to winning FWA's "Site Of The Day" award.
It's a good opportunity to point to Lee Martin's essay "Intimacy Doesn't Scale" discussing what he created with Little Dragon including the why and the how.
The technical details are interesting but his thoughts on scaling intimacy are worth considering beyond this particular effort.
More:
- More Major Musicians Pursuing Creative Album Release Strategies
- 'Deleting Borders': Crossing The Blurry Borders Between Music And Music Marketing
- Don't Ignore Old School Music Marketing: Creative Ideas For Press Kits, Merch & More
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The attention to detail in the marketing of Daft Punk’s merch is what stood out the most. They did a great job capturing the sound of the album in each ad.