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Social Media Marketing Assignment Sydney Plummer CMUS356: Music Marketing (B01) Professor Hodges March 2nd, 2024
As times change and technology makes it easier for consumers to access products and services online, it is extremely important that artists and the record labels that they are with move to promoting and engaging with fans digitally, at least in some capacity. Social media is one way for customers to express brand loyalty, and it also provides an unofficial endorsement in the form of user-generated content (UGC) that can then be reposted and shared. 1 As the younger generations enter the marketplace, it is imperative that companies find ways, such as social media, to advertise new music to them using the platforms that they frequent. This also allows them to interact with the artist, their music, and share it amongst their friends in ways that are so much faster than before. The more focused and targeted the marketing is, the better and quicker it will grow and spread, gaining more notice. This will allow for more engagement, follows, shares, plays, and downloads, all which benefit the artist and their record label. There are several different types of social media platforms from which to find ways to advertise and share music. Facebook is the largest social media platform, with 2.23 billion active monthly users. 2 About 25 percent of Facebook users are between the ages of 25 and 34, which is an excellent demographic to market music to. Facebook offers a feature that allows a user to promote a post for a fee, which pushes the post (which could include a music video, touring info, or link to an artist's recorded works) to a wider audience. This option does present an artist or label with a good opportunity to jumpstart the engagement of a new page by promoting select posts that nurture strong engagement with your audience. 3 Creating a fan page will allow more 1 Alison Munsch. 2021. “Millennial and Generation Z Digital Marketing Communication and Advertising Effectiveness: A Qualitative Exploration.” Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science 31, no. 1 (January): 10–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/21639159.2020.1808812. 2 Bobby Owsinski. Social Media Promotion For Musicians . Available from: Liberty University Online Bookshelf, (3rd Edition). Bobby Owsinski Media Group, 2020. 3 Clyde Philip Rolston, et al. Record Label Marketing : How Music Companies Brand and Market Artists in the Digital Era , Taylor & Francis Group, 2015. ProQuest Ebook Central , http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/liberty/detail.action?docID=4098068.
people to follow the artist than a personal page does, and you can also track insights and track how well posts are doing and how often they are being viewed and shared. The artist can also post giveaways, tickets to shows, or announce special events or touring information to a large group of people. There is a slight downside to using a fan page, however. If the artist wishes to post music information on their personal page as well as their fan page, they now must do double the work and make sure to maintain both pages. Instagram has over 1 billion active monthly users, and 59% of all active online users between the ages of 18 and 29 use the platform. 4 It has a wide variety of ways to interact with posts and other users, which include: comments, shares, saves, direct messages, as well as others. Instagram has a business feature, which is excellent for an artist because they can see insight data on posts, as well as being able to connect it to their Facebook fan account. Instagram is excellent for reaching potential consumers, and it is set up in a way that users can interact and share it with their friends and family easily. According to Instagram’s internal data, 50 percent of their users follow at least one business, 60 percent claim they learn about a product or service on the platform and 75 percent visit the product’s website or tell their friends, after looking at an Instagram advertising post. 5 Instagram allows users to post reels, which is an excellent way for an artist to post short videos about their music for promotion purposes. They can also conduct polls, offer giveaways, and engage directly with the fans and visitors to increase interactions. They can post short clips on their stories, as well as go live and interact with their fans in real time, and they can also use hashtags in their posts to be pulled up during users searches on the app. However, it is easy to post too often and flood people's timelines with posts that become easily ignored, so it is best to post fewer posts for better engagement. 4 Bobby Owsinski. Social Media Promotion For Musicians . Available from: Liberty University Online Bookshelf, (3rd Edition). Bobby Owsinski Media Group, 2020. 5
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