How to Promote Your Music on Spotify with Facebook Ads (2026)
Master the art of promoting your music on Spotify using Facebook ads with proven strategies to build effective campaigns, landing pages, and track meaningful engagement.
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DistroKid Royalty Analyzer
Use our free tool to process your DistroKid royalty statement and understand your royalties. See a graph of monthly royalties over time, breakdown by DSP, and average payment per stream by country for Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music. Your data is processed locally, and is not uploaded to our servers. DistroKid Royalty Analyzer DSP...
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How To Make It In Music feat. Ben Patterson
In this episode Ben Patterson, president of Downtown Artist & Label Services, and I talk about music marketing, the industry, Spotify's changes and more! Listen on your favorite Podcast platform Important Points: Andrew and Ben talk about Spotify's Discovery Mode which provides additional visibility for artists, but can reduce royalties. That’s why Downtown Music aggressively...
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Drip Review: The Best Email Marketing Platform for Creators
In this Drip review we cover the best features of Drip and how it's an amazing email marketing platform for music artists. Whether you're a music artist, YouTuber or social media influencer connecting with your fans and building a loyal audience is more important than ever. One of the best ways to do this is...
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How To Build a Music Career from Scratch feat. Llynks
In this episode of Modern Music Marketing I talk to Llynks, a music artist in the trenches building a music career from scratch. Currently she has 40,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, 2,300 subscribers on YouTube, 3,500 on TikTok and more on other platforms. A lot of music marketing people talk about ‘building a community', but...
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How To Make A Living with Music feat. Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb)
A lot of artists and producers want to know how to make a living with music, and Benn Jordan (AKA The Flashbulb) has done exactly that. He has 145,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, 70,000 subscribers on YouTube, has been signed, toured, made music for TV & Film and also made music for commercials. In this...
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How To Make A Living From Music feat. Tommy Zee
In this video I talk to Tommy Zee about how to make a living from music by making music for brands in advertisements. Tommy runs a company called Tommy Zee & Co where he's made music for brands like Nike, Google, Visa and more. He also teaches musicians how to get into this industry with...
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How To Grow Your Music YouTube Channel feat. Adriel Rivera
In this podcast episode I talk to Adriel Rivera (Show Your Genius) about how to grow your music YouTube channel, since he's grown his to about 13,000 subscribers! We talk about content type, how long it takes, and how to stand out. We also talk about music marketing topics, and general life stuff as well....
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How to Promote Your Music on Spotify with Facebook Ads (2026)
Master the art of promoting your music on Spotify using Facebook ads with proven strategies to build effective campaigns, landing pages, and track meaningful engagement.
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Your First 1 Million Streams in 2026 (Ultimate Guide)
Discover a strategic, repeatable plan to reach your first million streams across all platforms in 2026, combining smart content creation and targeted advertising.
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The ULTIMATE Music Marketing Roadmap
Master your music marketing with a comprehensive roadmap that integrates release timing, social media tactics, and strategic advertising to grow your fanbase effectively.
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Which social media platform is best for music marketing?
A social media experiment tested organic video performance across Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, Facebook Reels, and TikTok. Results showed Instagram Reels led in views and comments, while TikTok had the highest like rate but the lowest overall reach for this band’s content.
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Combine paid and organic marketing with a $5,000 budget to release 9 singles in 2026, supported by 20 social posts and 2 YouTube videos per song. This approach builds on proven real-world data to help you reach 1 million streams.
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Hey friends! I saw a large music industry content creator post a video talking about how artists could run Meta ads to promote their music. Given that this is very much my area of expertise, I was expecting to nitpick...
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Discover what defines a good cost per conversion for Spotify ads and how to optimize your music promotion campaigns across different countries and genres.
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DistroKid Just Sold
DistroKid’s recent sale to a private equity firm raises important questions about the future of indie music distribution and what artists should expect next.
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I Made 1,100 Videos Last Month Using THIS Tool
Discover how FlowStage transforms music promotion by effortlessly creating diverse, engaging mini videos tailored for TikTok, Instagram, and ad campaigns with creative ease.
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Spotify Is Turning Into YouTube?
Spotify is transforming into a video platform, allowing artists to upload full-length music videos and live performances directly to their profiles for the first time.
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I Posted 400+ Times on Social Media in 5 Weeks to Promote My Music (was it worth it?)
Discover how posting hundreds of times across multiple social platforms can impact your music promotion and what real results to expect from relentless social media effort.
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I Tested If TikTok Views Actually Create Spotify Streams
Discover how TikTok views translate into meaningful Spotify streams through a real-world experiment with no ads, virality, or direct artist promotion involved.
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How This Artist Grew to 25k Monthly Listeners for $0 Using TikTok feat. Flowstage / AZKAL
Discover how Rom Villarica organically grew his band AZKAL’s monthly listeners to impressive levels using TikTok and his custom platform Flowstage without spending a dime.
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This Company Has Paid Out $35 Million to Artists
Discover how Armada revolutionizes artist merchandise by expertly managing fulfillment, creative vision, and logistics to maximize artists’ focus on their craft and earnings.
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The $5/day music marketing budget (exactly how I would do it)
Discover a smart $5/day Meta ads strategy to boost your music catalog by driving targeted listeners to a curated playlist that sparks meaningful algorithmic growth.
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Spotify's NEW Artist Verification Program (what it is, how to get it)
Discover Spotify’s new green checkmark verification that distinguishes real, active artists from AI-generated projects and what it means for your music career.
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