Using YouTube to promote your band
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Topic: Using YouTube to promote your band
Posted By: HolyMoly
Subject: Using YouTube to promote your band
Date Posted: December 09 2012 at 09:50
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I'm in a band (Rare Goat) that has been together for 8 years, but only in the past year or so we've started getting serious about producing original material. We now have almost enough original material to comprise an album, and we're more interested than even about getting our music heard. We're all fairly old, having spent at least half our lives in a non-Internet world, but I'm well aware that the expectations of a band trying to promote its music should be tempered by the realities of how people consume music nowadays. Even just hanging around this forum, I've learned a lot about how people discover music, and one of the primary means that I've seen is YouTube. Youtube has become a place to share audio as much as video now. My question to you all arises because of a message I received to my Youtube account. Having uploaded a couple of new songs in the past week, it must have triggered some salesmen types to solicit my business to help me get my videos to "go viral". It was actually a very nice message, going on for paragraphs about how amazing my uploads are, but it was pretty obviously a form letter. I'm not that old and naive.  How do you attract traffic to your band's music online? What methods have worked? What should I avoid? Is this message I received worth investigating? Should I just give up now before I die penniless and insane?
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Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: December 09 2012 at 09:54
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Well I never really had any desire for my stuff to be "huge" or "well-known" so I just threw it into bandcamp and made it my signature for a while. I think I have a youtube video somewhere but I forget if it's still up or not. http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - http://andywebb.bandcamp.com/ ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: December 09 2012 at 10:20
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I like your stuff on Bandcamp btw Andy... I hadn't checked it out in a while. But your remark brings up another good point -- just what is our goal anyway? That's probably a discussion we need to have. I don't think we have any illusions about actually making a lot of money. We just want people to like us, I guess, and maybe let us play a gig for money somewhere, every now and then.
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Posted By: saxxons
Date Posted: December 13 2012 at 09:13
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I choose a right and relevant title for my vidoes in youtube. Apart from this I put proper keywords, description and tags.And then I share it on Facebook, Twitter, and ask my friends to share this on their social networks. If people like our music then it will go viral DEFINITELY! ------------- Saxxons - A British Pop Music Band started by 3 engineering students of University of Leeds. Visit our blog for our Latest Acoustic, Pop and Rock Music Albums |