Focusing on YouTube vs Spotify (?)

[Max Garceau]

Hey everyone!

I'm releasing my first song for a new music project and I want to come out of the gate with a cohesive promotion strategy and ad campaign. I've got a music video, website, logo, etc prepared. I watched Andrew's videos on how to run an effective ad campaign and I want to give this track a fighting chance of doing well with a healthy ad budget. My goal is to see if anyone likes the music and, if so, make a lasting connection with them.

The problem I'm having is that I'm not sure whether to focus on promoting the music video on YouTube or the song on Spotify. After watching Andrews videos it seems like Spotify has a lot more features for making a song trend, but at the same time it seems to me like a video would make a better impression on a potential fan than a song would by itself.

Any advice or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
PS: If anyone wanted to weigh in on how much money they thought would be a good amount to put down in advertising for a projects first song feel free to weigh in!

[Regret Regret]

Ive run ads for both YouTube music vids and for Spotify. I would put a lot of effort into YouTube but most of the money into ads for Spotify.

It has been my experience that it is easier to get repeat listeners on Spotify. So much so that I end up with almost as many YouTube followers from $100 in ads for Spotify than if I ran $100 direct to YouTube. Enough just trickle though my social media and find their way to YouTube.

that being said, the people that end up following on YouTube are deeper fans. I want to put out more content and interact with them more because that is what they are looking for. I’ve been uploading 3 vids per song, an idea I got from a YouTube channel called Musformation. One still image vid, one lyric vid a few weeks later, and the official vid a few weeks after that.

[Max Garceau]

Ive run ads for both YouTube music vids and for Spotify. I would put a lot of effort into YouTube but most of the money into ads for Spotify.

It has been my experience that it is easier to get repeat listeners on Spotify. So much so that I end up with almost as many YouTube followers from $100 in ads for Spotify than if I ran $100 direct to YouTube. Enough just trickle though my social media and find their way to YouTube.

that being said, the people that end up following on YouTube are deeper fans. I want to put out more content and interact with them more because that is what they are looking for. I’ve been uploading 3 vids per song, an idea I got from a YouTube channel called Musformation. One still image vid, one lyric vid a few weeks later, and the official vid a few weeks after that.

Thanks for the info and the multiple videos/Musformation tip! That gives me a much better idea on where to spend my time.

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