Do you use videos for your tracks on YouTube?

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Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask about the release of your tracks:
What platforms do you generally release your music on?

How important is Youtube to you?
Do you use your own videos for your music on YouTube?
Do you just use pictures?
Would suitable animations for your tracks be interesting?
Do you think animations and fancy thumbnails would help to increase your reach?

Personally, I’m planning to create my own animations and have already animated a few things because I believe that this has a positive effect on the music and the reach, be it YouTube, Instagram or TikTok.

Now I wanted to ask you, what do you think?
How do you add visuals to your tracks or covers?

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Oh, that’s something I was thinking about, too. But I think in case one’s not planning to become famous and sell music, it’s not worth the effort. A simple picture that’s related to the song title (at best) is more than enough. Animations don’t improve the music. If you want to gain more listeners/customers, then social media activity and keyword optimization is key. No one will find perfect animations, thumbnails or whatever if the keywords suck and if one’s not spreading the word.

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I think it’s very complicated if you want reach and I don’t think you can do it without paying ads on top of it all.

I enjoy creating visuals but they don’t bring in new listeners at least for me, you probably have to make shorts and hope to go viral with an interesting clip.

I use following apps in combination to create my videos:
Blender 3d, Affinity Photo and Magic Music Visuals

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Now with AI we can make complete music videos in a day or less.Video is important as we live in the age of video and picture but if the song is bad no video can save it.Fancy thumbnails make a difference in youtube but most important for me are the tags you will use for the video,they must be specific music tags because you dont wont to attract people who are not interested in music because they will pass your video instantly.You need to attract music lovers so they can like and share, shorts are pretty important these days,most people prefer them and in my expirience you will get way more subscribers and views from shorts than with complete videos,its a “fast food” age as well.Make new social pages for your music only and share every day but not too much,making too many posts a day makes people get bored of you and they will ignore them in the long run.Facebook,YouTube have statistic tools so you will now when is the right time in the day to share your tracks ,this is very important too.I was posting randomly in the past but when i started to use the tools social platforms provide, it made a huge difference.You could also “sell yourself” by making videos on how you make tracks etc,its a more direct way to interact with your audience and your music could benefit from that as well ,but if you are an asshole :smiley:{dont take it personaly} dont do that :smile:

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