you've created your music maybe you've even released your music or you're planning on
releasing it soon but now comes the hard part how do you get people to actually listen to it in this
video i'm looking at five features that DistroKid has launched to help you promote your music and
get you more spins i'm Zane welcome to audio tech tv where it's my goal to help you conquer the text
so you can unleash your creativity and this video is sponsored by DistroKid but if you've watched my
channel long enough you'll know that i'm a big fan of their service i do videos on their service that
aren't sponsored it's something that i believe in and i don't mind sharing with you because
i think they do great things and if you're not sure of what they do basically they get your music
on spotify itunes amazon music and all of the big online music stores plus a bunch of smaller
stores and they give you 100 of the royalties all you have to do is pay a small annual membership
fee i think it's around twenty dollars but if you use the link down in the description you'll save
seven percent on that so it gets even smaller but basically that's the basics of what DistroKid does
they also have these features to help you promote your music so you can get more listens and a lot
of these are free they come with the membership so the first feature that we're going to look at is
the playlist spotlight so each week distrokid adds new songs to their playlists and you can
get your song added to those playlists you just need to submit it into this sort of contest here
clicking add your track and basically your song is going to go up against another song
and then users vote and the cool thing is anyone can vote they don't need to be a
member of DistroKid so you can share your voting link on your social media pages and get your fans
to vote for you it's pretty easy for them to do it so it's not a huge inconvenience or anything
and one thing to note is you can only have one song in the contest at any time but you can remove
that song and add another one whenever you want distrokid resets the votes every week so this is
something you can continue to promote it gives you some content to post on your social media sites
and it doesn't cost you anything extra to get into the playlist spotlight it's included with
your membership so here's what the voting page looks like it's just two songs you would listen
to one listen to the other one and then you could vote so you vote for whichever one out of the two
you think should be added to the playlist and you can even select the genre of music that you
want to focus on so it's a pretty cool thing and i spent a lot of time in here just going through
and listening to some new music and hearing some new artists which is great i always like hearing
new artists there's some great music being created so have fun with this and get your fans involved
and let them have fun with it as well now here's how you add your track you go to add your track
you would select your artist if you have more than one choose the song that you want to put
in the contest and you can even choose the start of the clip and the clip is 29 seconds that's
what people will get to listen to in that little voting window so be sure to choose a section of
the song that you think is pretty catchy and is worth a vote and then once you do that you would
just click the connect with spotify and it's that easy if you're not logged into spotify
i think it asks you to log in but that's pretty straightforward the second promo feature is promo
cards so these distrokid promo cards quickly give you branded content that you can share on your
social media platforms and there's quite a few to choose from so you can post a different one
every day if you want and again it's super easy to set up so you would just choose the release
click generate promo cards and then you can see here's a bunch of different promo cards that you
can use and share on your social media sites use one or use them all it's up to you again
this is a free feature and it's very cool it's giving you content to share on your social media
the third feature is mini videos so this feature allows you to create a 29 second mini
video for your tracks and again this gives you content to share on your social media platforms
and just like the promo cards there are several options here to choose from
and you can keep creating these with different sections of your songs and you'll have a huge
amount of content to share while promoting your music so let's have a look at how easy this is so
first you would just look for one that you think suits your music i'm gonna choose this one here
pick a song you can even change the announcement if you want this says out now because it says
that here but we could change that to say something else if you want and again you
would choose the start time and i'll click generate mini video so as you can see i
actually created this earlier i'm going to click on that now and we can see what it looks
and like red and they can download it and they even give you a share button here so you can
copy this link and then share just the link so you don't have to download it re-upload it you could
share this link if you wanted again it's another free feature that distrokit gives you and it gives
you a lot of content to share on your social media platforms and that's where you're going to start
getting the views and you'll notice a lot of these are really geared towards like instagram or maybe
tick tock the reason for that is because that's where people are and that's probably where you're
going to reach the most people but you can also post these on facebook and twitter and wherever
else you want to post them now this next feature is more of a spotify feature but if you're a
distrokid member you have access to this and this is spotify canvas so this lets you set a loopable
video as the background while your song is playing in spotify and this can lead to listeners staying
on your song longer and not skipping past it you can maybe even use one of those mini videos if you
want or create your own thing you have to set this up on your spotify for artists app on your phone
you just click the track that you want to add the canvas to and then select create canvas and then
you can choose artwork for your canvas from videos and photos that are on your phone and the cool
thing is you can keep changing this up whenever you want you're not stuck with the same canvas
the fifth promo feature on distrokid is vizi now this one isn't free but it doesn't cost you too
much and it can give you some great content to share on youtube facebook instagram or whatever
social media account you use vizi lets you create full length videos for your tracks
and then you can choose which platforms you'll be sharing it on and it will create the specific size
for that platform if you want videos for your youtube channel vizi is a great way to generate
them quickly and easily now let's look at how easy it is so you just click on the get started
again you choose one of these templates that you think suits your song i'll choose this
old broken down car here then you choose the song you want and you'll notice this
song title is too long they cut it off so i'm going to change it up just a little bit here
and you can allow distrokid to feature your video if you want or you can say no to that now
here's where you get to choose and this sort of sets the pricing so if you want
the square instagram you click there it's 8.99 you want vertical instagram stories tick tock or
snapchat it's 8.99 for that or you can add both of those and you can see you get a bit of a discount
if you want the horizontal youtube video that you could also post on facebook or twitter
it's again 8.99 for that but if you add them all up it's 24 27 for all of them together
so i'll just complete the purchase now and you can see it's creating all of these videos for me
in here again this is great content that you can share on your social media platforms and
keep engaging with your audience like having a full-length youtube video on your channel that
isn't just the static cover art this is giving you a full video that has some moving features and is
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thank you so much for watching for audio tech tv i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon