Modern Music Marketing

In this interview I talk with Sam Duboff, the Global Head of Marketing & Policy at Spotify, about how Spotify royalties work, why they imposed a 1,000 stream monetization threshold, how they're handling AI music and much more.
 
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In this episode I talk to Jesse Cannon about how artists can get their music heard, and his amazing 30+ year journey working in the music industry.
Jesse's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Musformation
My .4 Cents Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@MyPoint4Cents

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In this episode I talk with Keyan Houshmand - a guitarist that built an online audience of nearly 200k followers, 15 million views on YouTube alone, and who made the gap to playing shows with artists like Animals As Leaders, I Built The Sky and more.
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In this video I talk to James Rhodes, the president of FiXT Records. We talk about what it's like running a label, what revenue sources are most important for them and how they approach marketing their artists.

Check out FiXT and FiXT Academy:
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In this episode I spoke with Noah Kellman, a jazz piano player that grew to 200,000 subscribers on YouTube and makes a living in the music industry. Watch more of Noah here.

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In this episode I talk with Goshfather about how he went from almost quitting music to 50k monthly listeners, playing EDC, being an Insomniac radio host and more in under 2 years.
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In this episode I chat with Alan Douches, a Grammy award winning mastering engineer with over 16,000 credits to his name and founder of West West Side Music.
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In this episode I talk to Mark Roberge about how artists can grow their fanbase, get more fans to shows, sell more merch, and how he promotes his band back from the Myspace days to now.

Check out FanFlowy: https://www.makeourmusic.com/andrew_fanflowy

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In this episode I talk to Joe Wadsworth from The Online Recording Studio about the importance of song quality, how artists are making money with their music and how an online recording studio works.
Free 20 minute song feedback session + $100 of TORS credit: https://geni.us/XgGwNm

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Is physical media back? Rob Bach, formerly of Virgin Megastores, Amazon and CD Baby, talks about the value of physical media for music artists and how artists can get into it without the hassle of dealing with shipping.
Check out Spinney Media (use coupon code 'SOUTHWORTH' for 25% off!): https://geni.us/SpinneyMedia

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