In these posts I talk about how you can use Facebook ads to market your music.
It is 100% feasible for you to get your first 1 million streams on your music in 1 year. All you need is good music, a hard work ethic and ideally some budget. This strategy revolves around 4 core principles: I can hear you cringing at the idea of making social media content already, but...
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I have over 30,000 followers on my network of Spotify playlists, and I grew most of them using Facebook ads. Similar to how you would promote your music on Spotify using Facebook conversion campaigns, you can do the same thing to promote your playlists. Here's the process in a nutshell: Run a Facebook conversion campaign...
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I've found Facebook ads to be the most effective way of growing my presence on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. It allows us to show our music to people interested in similar artists / genres and have access to Spotify on the Facebook / Instagram / Messenger ecosystem of placements. For my own...
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In this episode Kyle Markland and I talk about marketing your music with Facebook ads, how to get a better cost per conversion, how artists should think about risk, and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Kyle are talking about how Facebook Ads Manager treats ToneDen and Hypeddit conversions differently,...
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Facebook ads are now easier to get started with because the iOS14 requirements are going away! ???? Spotify Growth Machine Course: https://learn.generastudios.com/spotify-growth-machine ???? Hire us to run your ads: https://www.forbidmedia.com/ ???? Best website / store / funnels for music artists: https://musicfunnels.io/ (get your 14-day FREE trial!) ???? YouTube Growth Machine: https://learn.generastudios.com/youtube-google-growth-machine/ ???????? Music Marketing Consultations:...
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My song Chains has generated 1,556,335 streams, but how much money did this actually generate? In this post i'll walk you through where these streams came from, what countries and calculate the average payment per stream. Background & Streaming Services We released Chains around September of 2020 and ran an initial marketing budget of $600...
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Spotify recently released a study they ran claiming Spotify Marquee delivers 10x more listeners per dollar than social ads on average. Is it true? Spotify Marquee Study Here's how Spotify structured their study. They worked with eight labels and distributors over a several month period. Artists ranged from 300,000 to 16 million monthly listeners, and...
Read articleIt is 100% feasible for you to get your first 1 million streams on your music in 1 year. All you need is good music, a hard work ethic and ideally some budget. This strategy revolves around 4 core principles: I can hear you cringing at the idea of making social media content already, but...
Read articleI have over 30,000 followers on my network of Spotify playlists, and I grew most of them using Facebook ads. Similar to how you would promote your music on Spotify using Facebook conversion campaigns, you can do the same thing to promote your playlists. Here's the process in a nutshell: Run a Facebook conversion campaign...
Read articleI've found Facebook ads to be the most effective way of growing my presence on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. It allows us to show our music to people interested in similar artists / genres and have access to Spotify on the Facebook / Instagram / Messenger ecosystem of placements. For my own...
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It is 100% feasible for you to get your first 1 million streams on your music in 1 year. All you need is good music, a hard work ethic and ideally some budget. This strategy revolves around 4 core principles: I can hear you cringing at the idea of making social media content already, but...
Read articleIn this episode Kyle Markland and I talk about marketing your music with Facebook ads, how to get a better cost per conversion, how artists should think about risk, and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Kyle are talking about how Facebook Ads Manager treats ToneDen and Hypeddit conversions differently,...
Read articleFacebook ads are now easier to get started with because the iOS14 requirements are going away! ???? Spotify Growth Machine Course: https://learn.generastudios.com/spotify-growth-machine ???? Hire us to run your ads: https://www.forbidmedia.com/ ???? Best website / store / funnels for music artists: https://musicfunnels.io/ (get your 14-day FREE trial!) ???? YouTube Growth Machine: https://learn.generastudios.com/youtube-google-growth-machine/ ???????? Music Marketing Consultations:...
Read articleMy song Chains has generated 1,556,335 streams, but how much money did this actually generate? In this post i'll walk you through where these streams came from, what countries and calculate the average payment per stream. Background & Streaming Services We released Chains around September of 2020 and ran an initial marketing budget of $600...
Read articleSpotify recently released a study they ran claiming Spotify Marquee delivers 10x more listeners per dollar than social ads on average. Is it true? Spotify Marquee Study Here's how Spotify structured their study. They worked with eight labels and distributors over a several month period. Artists ranged from 300,000 to 16 million monthly listeners, and...
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Facebook ads are one of the most effective ways to promote your music as an independent artist, big or small. There are several types of campaigns you can run, but many artists want to use Facebook ads to promote their music on Spotify and other streaming services (and they should, it works incredibly well). One...
Read articleI have over 30,000 followers on my network of Spotify playlists, and I grew most of them using Facebook ads. Similar to how you would promote your music on Spotify using Facebook conversion campaigns, you can do the same thing to promote your playlists. Here's the process in a nutshell: Run a Facebook conversion campaign...
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In this post we're going to talk about if its possible to profit from Spotify streams when using Facebook ads to promote your music. The answer is yes. Promoting Spotify with Facebook Ads If you aren't familiar with how I use Facebook ads to promote my music on Spotify (and Apple Music, etc), i'll give...
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In May 2022 I managed to sell over 100 CD's, and in this post i'm going to show you how. Specifically I sold 118 CD's to about 78 fans. Many of you might be asking, “who is still buying and listening to CD's in 2022, when music streaming is so convenient?”, but in 2021 over...
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Pretty much every advertiser using Facebook ads will have an ad account restricted one day, usually multiple times over your marketing journey. In this article i'm going to talk about why you may have gotten restricted, how to avoid restrictions in the future, and how to appeal a restricted ad account. How to appeal a...
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I've seen several rumors that the Facebook Pixel will be going away in 2022. People are claiming that this could be the end of Facebook ads as we know it, and the platform itself will be useless to a majority of advertisers that rely on it to promote their brands and businesses. However as far...
Read articleI've found Facebook ads to be the most effective way of growing my presence on streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. It allows us to show our music to people interested in similar artists / genres and have access to Spotify on the Facebook / Instagram / Messenger ecosystem of placements. For my own...
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If you want to be able to use Facebook ads to run conversion ads to promote your music on Spotify and other music platforms, you need to be able to own a domain name and properly set it up for iOS14. Prior to April 2021 you could run Facebook conversion ads for any website you...
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In this episode of Modern Music Marketing, Tom DuPree III and I talk about music marketing and Facebook Ads. Both Tom and I share a lot of videos on YouTube talking about music marketing, and both of us use Facebook Ads as the main way to promote our music. Here we share strategies and talk...
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Jesse Gillenwalters sells hundreds of CD's per month for his project Basic Printer and works at Indepreneur doing coaching and Facebook ad management for music artists. In this video we talk about how he got started at Indepreneur, what the most common pitfalls are for students working through their ‘Buddy System', and what are some...
Read articleHow concerned should you be about bots when running ads? Do bots come from certain countries? Are there ways to make your ads invincible to bots? In this episode I explore this complex subject. Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Even though it adds an extra step for audiences, Andrew has learned that...
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In this episode I chat with Circa from Indepreneur about how to promote your music on social media through storytelling and Facebook Ads. He talks about his music marketing strategies for developing true fans, ones that are much more interested than simply a stream or follow on Spotify. Also, how an artist can leverage social...
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