Why Music Promotion Channels aren't a good idea.

What's your favorite way to find music?

  • Word of Mouth

    Votes: 1 20.0%

  • iTunes

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Promotion Channels (safeTRACKS, Monstercat etc)

    Votes: 4 80.0%
  • Total voters
    5
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Hey Guys,
This is really only going to poke fun at me, I don't know how many other people own/run Music Promotion channels, but these are just a few thoughts I have on the idea.

This is one of the hardest types of channels to grow, I can safely say this because I've done Vlogging, Gaming, Skits etc before and most of those are fairly easy to spread to a wider audience. Now considering there are over 1000 different music promotion channels on YouTube, there are are only a few successful ones that definitely stand out. Monstercat Media, UKF, MrSuicideSheep. They're always going to be on top. That's just how it is. The biggest problem with this type of channel is the fact that competition is going to be your biggest obstacle to overcome. You've got to be unique, while at the same time cater to the needs of your audience. Which can be difficult, because there is only a limited range of "New" music that comes out. So first in is usually best served.

Now chances are you are NEVER going to make any "YouTube Money" from this venture, mainly because it's not YOUR content to be making money from. If you do start gaining enough views that you're able to pull in a decent income ($20-$50 p/m) it might be a good idea (to avoid any trouble with artists) to invest in giveaways or deals with your audience. Keeping profit from this is going to be a REALLY stupid move. I've done it before, and I've been slammed on all ends. Literally. I still can't sit properly. It's only going to bring negative attention, and you're going to be the guy that makes money of others hard work for doing well.. basically nothing.

These channels are best done as a hobby, a project if you will. If you wanna mess around, upload your favorite music and connect with fellow music lovers, it's a FANTASTIC way to do that. But if you're only interest is money and subscribers, maybe it's best to stick to fail compilations and cracked programs.

That's my "rant" over, I just wanted to let my frustration out.. WHY AREN'T I FAMOUS YET :'(

Cheers Guys,
Goblin.
 
I disagree, one of my favorite people to work with (rakohus) www.youtube.com/user/rakohus, makes awesome 8-16bit music, that he lets me use in my videos. Naturally he doesn't make a living out of it, but that doesn't stop him from sharing his passion with people on Youtube.

I'm partnered with Monstercat and can use all their music, and they help promote other artists as well. I would have never started to use Vicetone's music if not for Monstercat.
 
Music channels are pretty good tho, as long as you keep posting. A lot of the music channels i see havnt posted in 5 months...
 
uberdanger said:
I disagree, one of my favorite people to work with (rakohus) , makes awesome 8-16bit music, that he lets me use in my videos. Naturally he doesn't make a living out of it, but that doesn't stop him from sharing his passion with people on Youtube.

I'm partnered with Monstercat and can use all their music, and they help promote other artists as well. I would have never started to use Vicetone's music if not for Monstercat.
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I didn't mean that making a music channel where you upload your own music is a bad idea. I love finding and discovering new musicians. It's just owning one of these channels and building it from the ground up is quite difficult. Monstercat have been established for over 2 years, but they've also reached out to a lot of people and have spent a lot of money to get where they are now.[DOUBLEPOST=1389363637,1389363586][/DOUBLEPOST]
iLLwORkYOU said:
Music channels are pretty good tho, as long as you keep posting. A lot of the music channels i see havnt posted in 5 months...
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Keeping these channels active is pretty easy, but finding new music to use is the difficult part. Some weeks we can have up to 10-15 new releases, then others you can only have 2. So you have to recycle "old but gold" tracks to keep everyone happy.
 
If you started making decent money then you could like split it 50:50 with the artists
 
Goblin said:
That's the usual assumption. But when you upload 30+ artists a month, it's gonna be a bit hard to split it all up and pay them individually, unless you've got a team dedicated to doing just that.
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Some MCNs could handle that for you via claiming codes
 
The title is misleading since you're not talking about music channels in general but music promotion channels. Otherwise I see why it can be hard to grow a channel like that.
 
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