What strategies for a free music channel? Not the norm here.

JayManOurMusicBox

JayManOurMusicBox

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I am a composer and my channel leads others to my site to download music I am offering YouTubers to use for free. (see my signature - Music for Creators). I am seeking a bit of unconventional advice.

I am so new to YouTube it's unreal. Where have I been?
Anyway I see my situation here as slightly different as I don't produce videos that have any commentary or idea around it. It's just all my music that I am giving away for free.

I am learning a bit but a lot of it is about frequency, focus etc. I've read sub4sub is bad.
What do you suggest I do to get the word out? I really don't want to waste time on trial and errors if possible.
Please advice. Thanks!
 
The best way would be to promote yourself to smaller YouTubers like you'll find here, because everyone is looking to use free music in their videos! If they link your channel in the description then people will find you. Social Media is always a way to get anything out there to everyone as well!
 
Thanks Rattled. Yes I do notice that smaller channels are you really make fast friends and that really nice. I usually sub back when they sub to me and it goes from there whereby they contact me.

I have had bigger channels up to a half a million subs using my music too and they've really boosted my website directly. I haven't yet contacted them to sub to my new channel which I should but feel kinda awkward doing that.[DOUBLEPOST=1451921711,1451921613][/DOUBLEPOST]Redit? Now that's somewhere I haven't been in awhile. Let me go there and mess around. Thanks OzTalksHw.
If you can share how to use it correctly, that'd be a plus.
 
JayManOurMusicBox said:
Thanks Rattled. Yes I do notice that smaller channels are you really make fast friends and that really nice. I usually sub back when they sub to me and it goes from there whereby they contact me.

I have had bigger channels up to a half a million subs using my music too and they've really boosted my website directly. I haven't yet contacted them to sub to my new channel which I should but feel kinda awkward doing that.[DOUBLEPOST=1451921711,1451921613][/DOUBLEPOST]Redit? Now that's somewhere I haven't been in awhile. Let me go there and mess around. Thanks OzTalksHw.
If you can share how to use it correctly, that'd be a plus.
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Here's a thread I made a few weeks ago.
/threads/the-power-of-reddit-when-used-correctly.190437/
 
If you're hosting the music yourself, then why not ask people who use your music to credit your channel in their description. Most people don't mind having to credit the music they use, and I've seen a lot of other sites that are dedicated specifically to providing YouTube friendly copyright free music doing this, where you're free to use it but in exchange you're asked to credit the artist and the site you downloaded it from in your description. This won't get you as many clickthroughs initially but when larger YouTubers start using your music it should gradually start to draw in more people to check out your site and your channel.

Also think to yourself, what are the people who would want your music downloads searching for on YouTube? "Where to get non copyrighted music to use on YouTube", "Where to download music to use on YouTube", "What songs can I use on YouTube", etc etc, you get the idea. Now make videos for these, with guides explaining how users can navigate your site and download the music, what credit they have to give if any, and all the basics required for them to use it. This way you're giving value to people who're searching for these answers, and putting yourself out there as the person to provide them with that music at the same time!

This + the appropriate meta data (Titles, Tags, Description, and Closed Captions) on your video targeting long tail tags (i.e. full questions like "Where to download music to use on YouTube" as tags, rather than just "music", "youtube" etc as your tags) will get you plenty of natural discovery in search.

For what it's worth I've subscribed!
 
OzTalksHw said:
Here's a thread I made a few weeks ago.
/threads/the-power-of-reddit-when-used-correctly.190437/
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Thanks man.
I missed this one out. Will check it out.[DOUBLEPOST=1452065960,1452065868][/DOUBLEPOST]
JesusGreen said:
If you're hosting the music yourself, then why not ask people who use your music to credit your channel in their description. Most people don't mind having to credit the music they use, and I've seen a lot of other sites that are dedicated specifically to providing YouTube friendly copyright free music doing this, where you're free to use it but in exchange you're asked to credit the artist and the site you downloaded it from in your description. This won't get you as many clickthroughs initially but when larger YouTubers start using your music it should gradually start to draw in more people to check out your site and your channel.

Also think to yourself, what are the people who would want your music downloads searching for on YouTube? "Where to get non copyrighted music to use on YouTube", "Where to download music to use on YouTube", "What songs can I use on YouTube", etc etc, you get the idea. Now make videos for these, with guides explaining how users can navigate your site and download the music, what credit they have to give if any, and all the basics required for them to use it. This way you're giving value to people who're searching for these answers, and putting yourself out there as the person to provide them with that music at the same time!

This + the appropriate meta data (Titles, Tags, Description, and Closed Captions) on your video targeting long tail tags (i.e. full questions like "Where to download music to use on YouTube" as tags, rather than just "music", "youtube" etc as your tags) will get you plenty of natural discovery in search.

For what it's worth I've subscribed!
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Thanks JesusGreen! That's cool.
Really solid advice. Lot's to do here already from your list
 
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