easily do your music marketing or music promotion with DistroKid and their hyperfollow feature i'm
zane welcome to simple green tech and today i'm looking at the hyperfollow feature on DistroKid
now this is a sponsored video but that doesn't change anything i'm a big fan of DistroKid i
use their service and i've done several other videos that weren't sponsored where i talk about
their service so this is just sort of a bonus for me now normally in my videos i talk about
creating music but let's say you've created music you've got some songs ready you want to release
them you want to get them on spotify itunes google play maybe even on instagram so you can share them
in your instagram stories now DistroKid is a very affordable service that will get your music onto
all of the major online music stores like spotify like itunes and amazon and google play it costs
about 19.99 per year and you can release as many songs as you can create within a year
and you get 100 of the royalties DistroKid just gets that $19.99 that you paid them and if you
use the link down in the description you save an additional seven percent on that so if you
plan on releasing any music over the next year be sure to use that link and save yourself some money
now releasing your music is just the first part of the battle you need to do some music marketing and
music promotion so that people can find the music that you just released well DistroKid can help you
with that too by providing you with a hyper follow page as soon as you're done uploading your ep
album or your single to DistroKid it creates this hyperfollow page which has a quick clip so people
can test out your goods and then they can click and they can pre-save your song on spotify and
once your song is actually released on all of the platforms it will provide you links
to each of those platforms and your song on those platforms so people can easily click and download
your song from whichever online music store they prefer plus you'll gain spotify followers
get some new listeners and you can even get your listeners email addresses and i'll get more into
that in just a bit but first i want to show you what this hyperfollow page looks like now this
is a DistroKid hyperfollow page for a single that i released a while back so you can see it has the
links to all of the major online music stores in here you have your spotify your apple music
amazon google play and more so you can start your music promotion right away start sharing
this link and people can start doing pre-saves by clicking on here and then once your music is
actually released onto these stores those links are going to show up in here like this one
now you can also customize this page by going up to customize here then you want to go to
edit this page you can see you can change things like artist song title but you don't
want to do that because your artist name is your artist name and song title is song title you can
change the release date if you really wanted you can put a youtube embedded url in there so
if you have the video for this you can put that in there and you do get a video that's created
for you through the youtube topic channel so if you can find that once it's uploaded there you can
come back here and embed it so here are the stores that showed up on our hyperfollow page by default
and i'm going to reorganize these i want spotify at the top then i want itunes right under it
and i also want google play up there might as well bring napster to the top too as it pays
a little more but you can also add new links in here so a bandcamp might be one that you want to
add in here you can also add your social media links just click add link choose the service
save changes and now you can see i have my instagram link at the top here and you can
see that all of these have been reordered all right so here's that youtube topic channel that
i was telling you about this was automatically created for me and the video is just the album
artwork with the song playing and that's it so what you want to do is go to share and grab this
link right here let's go back go to customize edit this page and we'll just put that link
in there then we'll go down to save and now you can see it has the youtube video embedded right
on this page and ads will play on this video and you'll get the revenue for the ads that play
on that video okay so that's an older hyper follow page but before i started doing this
video i actually uploaded my latest ep and this is what the hyperfollow page looks like right
after you upload your ep or your single or your album so you can see here if people click on this
it's the spotify pre-save which would add your album or song to their spotify library so once
it is live on spotify it actually gets into their library you can also see there's the share email
address with artists so if people don't uncheck that you're going to get their email address
but let me refresh this now and you'll see that because i added the social media links in the
other one i also set it to add it to all of the hyperfollow pages for this particular artist so
if i had more they would all show up along in here but let's see what else we can do in customize on
this one we don't have the youtube embedded earl yet but we can put that in there once we get it
we have the spotify pre-save on you can turn that off if you really want to for whatever reason
there's the audio previews that you can turn off but like it says in here you don't get
those previews until it's actually released and i have this set to release in a couple of days
you can add your google analytics in here so you can see the analytics from this page
and if you're on soundcloud or some other service like maybe bandcamp you can add that in here too
and of course you can add more social media accounts the moment you've uploaded your song
or songs you get this page and you can start sharing it right away and hopefully you're going
to collect some pre-saves or at least get on some people's radars plus it gives you some content to
share on your social media accounts most of us are do it yourself musicians we write and record
the music ourselves we mix it ourselves and now we've released the music ourselves and having
just one link to worry about for all the major online music stores makes it easy for our music
marketing efforts and even if you have a band or a bit of a crew to help you this still helps to
keep everything in order so everyone's using the same link and there's no confusion and look at
this they even give you share buttons for twitter facebook linkedin and pinterest so if you're not
on all those social media sites yet get creating them plus also create an instagram page i know i'm
not going to make it rich with my music releases but i at least want some people to have a listen
to it why else would i release it but maybe you do have the potential to have your music take off
and start making you some income and maybe you can even make a career out of it well first you need
to start with creating some great songs and then releasing them and then the next big thing is the
music promotion and music marketing the DistroKid hyperfollow link makes it easy to reach your fans
and have them check out your music no matter which music platform they prefer you've got fans
that like itunes you're covered spotify covered napster you're covered plus many others the idea
is to make it easy for your fans to listen and purchase your music plus it makes it easy for
you to promote and market it now if you want to check out my video that discusses an ep versus
a single versus an album click up here or click down here to see what youtube recommends if you
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me thank you so much for watching for simple green tech i'm zane keep creating and we'll talk soon