Learn how to improve your current strategies to promote music beyond social media and constant content creation. With these tested tips, musicians can ‘passively promote’ their music while saving time, money, and effort…
For indie artists, getting music on a Spotify playlist can be crucial to success. This guide offers strategies for optimizing profiles, consistently releasing music, pitching to playlists, engaging with user-curated playlists, and promoting your music beyond Spotify.
Look inside a successful social media music marketing campaign from veteran music marketers CyberPR. It covers essential tactics for increasing visibility, engaging fans, and boosting music career growth through targeted social media.
Catch up on what everybody is talking about with last week’s most-read Hypebot posts. Topics include new Apple Music upload requirements, Jay Gilbert’s updated release planner, why music is getting worse, the true cost of being a working musician, and much more.
Apple Music has added requirements for all new uploaded music designed to enhance the listener experience. The changes Apple has shared with digital music distributors that all songs uploaded must include both lyrics and one or more of the roles in each of its three contributor groups.
Spotify has added comments to podcasts. Said to be the platform’s most requested feature, the inevitable next question is, will Spotify add comments to music?
Threads has reached a level that musicians and music marketers must pay attention to. Meta-owned Twitter rival Threads now has 175 million monthly active users just a year after launching.
According to the new YouTube Culture & Trends Report, 89% of Gen Z describe themselves as fans of someone or something. In comparison, 65% consider themselves “video content creators,” and 80% say they consume content about their favorites at least once a week.
Tired of building an audience on social media only to have 2% of your followers ever see a post? Michael Brandvold and Jay Gilbert explore four music platforms that don’t play the algorithm game…..
With the internet and digital technologies driving rapid change within the music industry, articles about new releases and who has been hired and fired are no longer enough. Our up to the minute industry news alongside insightful commentary helps our readers sift through the rumors and developments to find the information they need to keep their businesses moving forward.
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