A Guest Post by Bas Grasmayer
To the readers of the Make It In Music blog, I would like to present my paper looking into some of the best practices of the online promotion of new music releases.
The paper identifies trends at play in the online practices of music promotion, looks at five different case studies and draws some observations and conclusions based on these case studies.
With the great, and some times not so great, examples set by Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, DangerMouse & Sparklehorse, Mos Def and Groove Armada, the paper aims to show very simply what works well when promoting music on the web and what does not.
Are you familiar with the phrase ‘freemium’ yet? Where you give something away for free, only to give yourself more opportunities to sell your premium content (fan packs, high quality versions, bundled packages, etc.).
Something else the paper discusses is that when you give something away, you should really give it away. So no DRM (copy protection), no sub-par quality versions (anything below 128 or 192 kbps), or other things which might actually disappoint people expecting to be delighted.
Without further ado, I present to you my paper about the online promotion of new musical content, click the link to download: Online Promotion of New Musical Content by Bas Grasmayer
This article was written by Bas Grasmayer, an International Communication Management student at INHOLLAND University Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He’s currently writing his thesis about successfully using the web for monetizing music and wrote this paper as a side-project.
As part of his studies, he’s completed an internship with the Bulgarian National Radio in Sofia with excellent results, studied new media and PR at Yeditepe University in Istanbul, Turkey for a semester and has combined two of his biggest loves, new media and music, into one research objective for his thesis, which will be finished and made public somewhere within the next few months.
Bas regularly tweets about innovation in the music industry on Twitter: http://twitter.com/spartz
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Keep working ,great job!
Hey look, these guys blogged about you and I
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/introducing/2009/09/making_it_in_music_two_mustrea.shtml
I think it giving free songs away is one thing, but converting them to paid users is very hard. I find it hard enough trying to attract listeners. I think premium packs only works on bands/artists with popularity due to gigs or radioplay or tvplay.
I detailed 30+ music promotion websites w/ reviews. All for promoting music. It was a 5 day experiment.
http://djfrobot.blogspot.com/2010/07/frobots-5-day-journey-to-promote-2.html
Hope this helps!!!
FroBot
FroBot – that is a brilliant piece. I’ll highlight it to our readers.
Have you seen any noticeable results yet?
Ian
Hey man! I would say that it has now put my website at about +30 extra hits on weekdays, and about 100 on weekends. After all, if every website only drove 1 person per day, that is 33+ hits, but a few are driving more than that. And, also, my general google ranking of my main page has gone way up since I have many backlinks….and, there are some really weird websites like DJtube…who seem to lack activity…yet, their webpages update daily (and accidentally find mine everyday since its not update much). So a google search of FROBOT seems to find that website as number 2. Kind of weird. There are also some places on these websites to blog….and, I am finding, people are more interested in reading a blog about music that actually listening to music….so I am driving tons of traffic to my blogs from these websites (which in turn is getting me listeners). Im still analyzing it…but since summer came…its a lot of DJing and beach parties all over japan!
FroBot
Thanks very much for dropping by and updating us on what has worked for you.
All that linking and profile building was worth it.
Ian
Thanks for the tutorial on online music promotion…. i think internet is the best to promote and to streamline your business.
I found this article really useful as well with some alternative ideas to music promotion online – it’s not as simple as a lot of people think it is!
http://beccaluck.hubpages.com/hub/Promoting-Music-Online-A-Musicians-Definitive-Guide
Coby – That’s a good piece. I don’t agree with the whole approach – as I say here, an artist’s own site is key – but it has some good points.
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