OmeGak
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3 years ago I had a call with Miel 'La vie Sauvage' last Monday 19th. I should have dumped my notes and thoughts here while they were still fresh, but I'll try reconstructing them one week later.
Have you used platforms for promotion other than PlaylistPush?
Miel mentioned another popular platform that he has used for music promotion with relative success: https://www.submithub.com/. This platform, rather than matching songs to curators/playlists, artists need to choose a curator and curators may publish their songs in different platforms (e.g. Spotify, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, blog posts, etc.). He mentioned the platform feels much less organized, focused and polished than PlaylistPush. He also mentioned that playlists in there tend to have not as many followers, blog posts are barely read by anyone, and social media feels like a complete lottery.
"getting in touch with people that like your music"
- PlaylistPush doesn't allow for artists to contact curators and it's usually hard to find users from Spotify.
- It's easiest to get in touch with curators / enthusiast listeners directly on Facebook or Instagram directly.
- It seems that I'm only curator that Miel managed to get in touch and keep in contact with (found me on LinkedIn).
- He was pretty excited with the idea of having a platform with a strong focus on this.
How about Soundcloud? Listeners can leave comments on your tracks. Haven't you met curators or listeners that gave you constructive feedback?
- Miel considers Soundcloud more like a platform where to upload his work-in-progress tracks.
- He doesn't think Soundcloud playlists are popular and, so, don't give him much visibility.
- He doesn't think comments on Soundcloud give valuable feedback (as opposed to some reviews on PlaylistPush).
Community ownership, decentralization, aligned incentives and all that jazz?
- For artists, these are pretty fuzzy ideas that can easily come across as empty buzzwords rather than strong value propositions.
- I could explain (without bullshit, I believe), but we will need to explain all these concepts in written/visual/UX form.
What do you think about appearing as early advisor / member/ supporter of the platform?
He would totally be in!
Where would you think it would make sense to have an initial community chat?
Telegram.
Link: Spotify profile Contact: @OmeGak