In a saturated, crowded space (approx. 20,000 new tracks are added to Spotify each day according to DMR) where you are expected to attract fans and spin your own marketing magic, these platforms are vital. This post will cover Feature.fm, Toneden, Show.co, Hypeddit, and HyperFollow. They are slightly different but they do basically the same things. We use all of them here and they are deeply incorporated in our Total Tuneups<\/span><\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n Feature.FM is a fan engagement platform and it features Action Pages to help build your audience – <\/span>Click Here to create one. <\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>From The Site: “Action Pages are highly engaging pages that reward fans for taking the actions you want in the platforms you want and provide you with deep insight into your audience.”<\/span><\/p>\n ToneDen is a fan engagement platform much like Feature.FM. You can use this platform to facilitate social media follows\/likes and\/or email addresses for free downloads. Learn more about the platform <\/span>here<\/a><\/span><\/strong>. You can also optimize Facebook ads via ToneDen, and customize those ads more than you can under the Facebook Ads Manager.<\/span><\/p>\n Show.co<\/a><\/span><\/strong> is a fan engagement platform much like Toneden and Feature.fm. This platform is owned by CD Baby and is integrated so you can use it as well (we can discuss which pieces to pick and choose on coaching calls). The CD Baby Blog has <\/span>a great article<\/strong> <\/span><\/a><\/span>on the best ways to utilize it for marketing campaigns and to use it as part of a successful streaming strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n Hypeddit<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is a music marketing and promotion tool that aims to organically grow your fans and followers. This is done through multiple smartlinks and landing pages much like Linktr.ee, Feature.FM, ToneDen, and HyperFollow. Hypeddit is perfect for independent musicians with a small to medium audience.<\/span><\/p>\n HyperFollow<\/a><\/strong><\/span> is the easiest way to make pages that have your music, videos, social media links, and more\u2014free and exclusive to DistroKid users. HyperFollow is a fan engagement platform that was designed to help artists earn a larger following on Spotify.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is a suite of powerful artist marketing tools that includes a <\/span>song promotion network<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a> that places your songs on streaming radio stations to targeted audiences. This is not a free service but can be a great way for artists to gain exposure where fans listen. <\/span>We love their Action Pages and suggest them because they provide an effective way to \u201cshock\u201d the algorithm at Spotify which can help you get picked up by playlists organically.<\/span><\/p>\n You can use this tool to run a pre-save (before release) or a save campaign (for tracks that are already posted on Spotify), a great place to start a marketing and streaming strategy. <\/span>These campaigns differ in that the artist is able to choose where and how their music is featured or streamed. After choosing the campaign, the next steps involve choosing the target audience. This feature allows you to select all types of demographics and genres based on the audience you are looking for.<\/p>\n Every artist has an analytic dashboard, which shows all engagements and interactions of their music. Engagements include favorites, shares, follows, and Soundcloud clicks. Viewed Impressions are when the music is put on a website and it is viewed by the user.<\/p>\n Feature.FM’s self-serve ad platform allows you to advertise your music to your target audience through unique channels only offered by Feature.FM like sponsored songs in streaming services and on music websites in addition to channels like audio ads, display, and an AI Powered Social Ads. Feature.FM is useful for Spotify pre-save campaigns: Artists receive email addresses, profiles, locations, and the number of followers for everyone who pre-saves their music. Feature.fm Pre-save allows fans to Pre-save your music on Spotify, Deezer, and pre-order from other stores.<\/p>\n All artists of any size can create unlimited Pre-Saves with Feature.fm for free. They’ll automatically add your music to fan libraries the second it’s released. Pre-save or save Spotify campaigns are strategies used by artists and record labels to notify fans of an artist\u2019s new music as it is released on Spotify. At first, you might think \u201cpre-save\u201d is something that Spotify is directly offering. This is not an official Spotify feature \u2013 It\u2019s a creative use of Spotify\u2019s algorithm by record labels and digital marketers. Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n Before releasing new music, direct your fans to a special link and ask them to hit the Follow button on your Spotify artist profile. When your new music becomes available, Spotify will automatically put the new release into \u201cYour Library.\u201d Options for creating these campaigns rage from a manual call to action to a sophisticated campaign on a website. Pre-save Spotify campaigns work best when implemented many weeks before a new release.<\/p>\n The feature that serves users new music from artists a user follows was there long before \u201cpre-save.\u201d Spotify drew attention to this with the rollout of their Release Radar playlist across all user accounts. Release Radar is an algorithm generated playlist. Every user on Spotify has their own unique Release Radar, Discover Weekly, and Your Daily Mix playlists. Based on what users listen to, save, add, share, or follow, Spotify automatically delivers these automated playlists.<\/p>\n The \u201cpre-save\u201d is meant to increase the streaming of a song in order to increase the likelihood of getting on one of these playlists.<\/p>\n Feature.FM allows you to design your own budget and allows you to see what that budget will get you:<\/p>\n First, choose a max budget for the campaign and if you’d like to set a daily limit or start and end dates on your campaign budget. For a Deezer streaming campaign, you only pay for each stream if the song is listened to for least 30 seconds. For a music website campaign, you pay $1 to $2 for every 1000 impressions. Payments are made weekly.<\/p>\n Show.co is a marketing platform for musicians that allows you to make links to promote your music by sending your audience to directly interact with your socials. You have the option of selecting from 4 different types of campaigns including:<\/p>\n YouTube and or Soundcloud campaign to increase streams on a specific song or video and can “gate” the video requesting that fans subscribe to your channel before they get to view it (this is a great way to up your subscriber numbers) ToneDen is also known for their “social unlock” feature, which has become very popular with social media marketing because it prompts a call-to-action to fans that is mutually beneficial to both the musician and the fan. The fan received generally a free download and in return the musician collects their contact data which can be used for marketing analytics to better advertise in the future.<\/p>\n According to their website, ToneDen is social marketing platform that allows creators to increase their reach through creating multipurpose marketing campaigns that collect fan data to refine their target audience. Their sleek interface is easy-to-use and simplifies the social marketing process for independent musicians.<\/p>\n Playbooks<\/b> Ad Campaigns and Strategies<\/b> This feature acts as a 20-man ad agency at your finger tips, automating everything in your campaign from start to finish.<\/p>\n Messaging<\/b> Once all this is done you Tone Den gives you access to analytics detailing who, not only opened the message but also who interacted with the information you sent.<\/p>\n FanLinks<\/b> Lasso<\/b> ToneDen subscription options vary depending on how much you\u2019re looking to spend on Facebook and Instagram advertising. Their free option doesn\u2019t offer nearly as much as the paid versions, in that you only get access to the social unlock, contests, and FanLink campaigns. If you want to use the automated Facebook and Instagram Ad campaign feature, the Basic option starts at $50\/mo with a $100 ad budget per month. The costs for the ads are not included in the subscription price so remember to factor that into your marketing budget. ToneDen recommends their Pro option because you have a larger budget for advertising without increasing your monthly fee for their subscription.<\/p>\n As an independent musician, whether you\u2019re new and growing your fanbase or a more experienced artist looking to get music promotion, Hypeddit is a great promotional platform for you to not only share your music, but help find and grow your fanbase. <\/span>Hypeddit is perfect for independent musicians with a small to medium audience.<\/span><\/p>\n Smart Links You can gather data analysis and statistics about your audience and which platforms are performing best and which countries your music is most played.<\/span><\/p>\n Pre-Saves<\/strong> Pre-saves help you get more streams on the day of release and designed to help you get onto editorial playlists on Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\n Download Gates Download Gates are a great way to attract new audiences on Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube, and other streaming platforms where you release music.<\/span><\/p>\n Link Gates Facebook Music Tabs Blogs and Playlists On top of this, Hypeddit also allows for influencer feedback to provide a helping hand at promoting your music. Because influencers tend to have a massive online following, having their feedback, either positive or negative, can help expand your fan base and understand your music on the fan level.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Hypeddits uses its own advanced algorithms and data analysis to get clear insight into what links are performing best and where in the world your music performs. It studies and data by day, per visit, per link, or click-through rate. It also learns from which platform you get more clicks, which countries, browsers, or devices.<\/span><\/p>\n The real time analytics makes it easier to target your music to yield the best results.<\/span><\/p>\n There are two options for Hypeddit depending on where you are in your\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n FREE – There is a free option which is a great place to start if you want to find your initial fans first. What you get is unlimited smart links, unlimited pre-saves, and unlimited download gates, as far as sharing your music goes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To help promote your music, you get One Promotion Exchange Campaign and unlimited Fan Promotion campaigns with in-app purchases.<\/span><\/p>\n PRO – This option is $9\/month and gives you all the bells and whistles of sharing and promoting your music. Not only do you get unlimited smart links, unlimited pre-saves, and unlimited download gates, you also get:<\/span><\/p>\n For Music promotion, you get:<\/span><\/p>\n HyperFollow is a completely free promotional tool that is available for all DistroKid artists. When you’re finished uploading your release, you can start promoting and collecting pre-saves on Spotify (including fan email addresses). As soon as your release goes live on its release date, your HyperFollow page will automatically update to include links to other streaming services.<\/p>\n More Followers and Streams DistroKid founder and CEO Phillip Kaplan<\/a><\/strong><\/span> says the reasoning for this is to “increase the likelihood of getting noticed by Spotify\u2019s human & robot editors, who can potentially add you to bigger, curated playlists.”<\/p>\n Once the song is released, your HyperFollow page will act similarly to a Linktr.ee, but with streaming services like Pandora, iHeart Radio, and Shazam.<\/p>\n More Stats and Insight NOTE: Only Musician Plus and Ultimate Accounts have access to fan email addresses!<\/strong><\/p>\nFeature.FM <\/strong><\/h4>\n
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<\/p>\nFeature.fm<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
What is Feature.fm?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/h4>\nHere Are Some of Feature FM’s Other Features:<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nAll of Feature.fm’s products provide real-time, advanced analytics and can send remarketing data to your various ad and social accounts.<\/p>\nPre-Save Spotify Campaigns<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nYou get detailed insight into who pre-saves your music.<\/p>\nHow Does a Pre-Save or Save Spotify Campaign Work?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
How Much Does Feature.fm Charge?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/b><\/h3>\nShow.co<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
What is Show.co?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
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\n\u2018Email for Download\u2019 campaign which directs people to join your mailing list, in order to gain access to a free download.
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\n\u2018Social Unlock\u2019 campaign The social unlock option prompts your audience to follow you on either Twitter, SoundCloud, Spotify, or subscribe to YouTube as well as join your mailing list, once this is done you can then redirect them to a URL of your choice to the exclusive content!
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\nOnce you\u2019ve signed up simply click \u2018New Campaign\u2019 on the top right-hand side of the screen. You will then select the campaign you wish to run and just fill out the information as prompted.
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\nHow Music Does Show.co Charge?<\/b><\/span>
\nThey have different levels from free (limited) to platinum – $99 per month.<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n
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<\/b><\/h3>\nToneDen.co<\/b><\/span><\/h2>\n
What is ToneDen?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
Key Features<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
\nPlaybooks allow musicians to create a social marketing campaign with multiple components in one space and streamline the process. ToneDen has created a collection of templates with specific campaign objectives you can choose from that will help promote your music on Spotify as well as promote your next gig or event on Facebook and Eventbrite.<\/p>\n![\"ToneDen](\"https:\/\/www.cyberprmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Playbook-768x564.jpg\")
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\nToneDen offers an easy and streamlined way to create social ads and target the right audiences. According to ToneDen, “People who use ToneDen save an average of 10 hours per week.” The platform takes the guesswork out of targeted advertising. Their automated Audience Creator and Targeting Engine will help you build and test multiple audiences at once, helping you quickly narrow in on the targeting parameters that actually lead to sales.<\/p>\n
\nToneDen gives you the ability to reach out to your Facebook followers directly to promote your upcoming releases and shows! With the help of their template designer, you can craft a personalized message to send out to all of your fans that will entice them to interact and check your latest release or even buy a ticket to your next show.<\/p>\n
\nFanLinks are a smart linking tool that lists all of your links to where your music can be found and displays it on a custom-designed landing page. This is meant to make promoting your music even easier because the FanLink can be attached to an email, social media, or anywhere on the Internet. You can then use ToneDen\u2019s analytic tools to track where and when your fans are clicking. FanLinks can also be used to track which platforms are more effective based on clicks and traffic.<\/p>\n
\nLasso is a tool that creates small pop-up widgets for your website with the purpose of incentivizing social engagement and collecting contact data through offering something in return, such as a free download or a coupon to use on your merch. You can customize the message on the pop-up to be more authentic and genuine with your fans so they feel more compelled to click on it. It\u2019s easy to integrate with platforms like WordPress, Squarespace, and Shopify so you can create widgets to collect emails, run a contest\/giveaway, or a social unlock that require fans to follow you on your socials to get something for free in return.<\/p>\nHow Much Does ToneDen.co Charge?<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/h2>\nHypeddit<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
What is Hypeddit?<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Key Features<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>Much like Feature.FM, ToneDen, Linktr.ee, and HyperFollow, Hypeddit provides smart links to stream your music on other platforms and purchase your music on music stores on one convenient landing page.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nA <\/span>pre-save<\/a><\/span><\/strong> is a landing page that allows fans to save your upcoming release to their collection on streaming platforms. Pre-saves are a fun promotional campaign that will not only automatically put your music in your fans\u2019 music library, but also requires the user to follow you on the streaming platform of their choice.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nFan Gating<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>A Download Gate is a transaction between the artist and the fan. You are offering a free download to your fans in exchange for a follow on your socials, signing up for your email list, a save or a follow on Spotify, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Similar to Download Gates, Link Gates are an exchange between artists and fans with free offerings. The difference is more flexibility, allowing you to share secret links with your audience. This can be a stream, a private discord group invite, a music video, discount coupons, and anything exclusive you want to give your fans.<\/span><\/p>\nMusic Promotion<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>This feature allows you to<\/span> present your music to your fans on Facebook via a custom music tab. Fans can listen to your music and download it straight from your Facebook Page. Fans also have the opportunity to share your music and download on their timelines.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Hypeddit has a Blog Promotion feature that helps you submit your track to playlists on Soundcloud, YouTube, and Spotify.<\/span><\/p>\nAnalytics<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Pricing<\/b><\/span><\/h4>\n
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<\/h2>\nHyperFollow<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
What is HyperFollow<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
Key Features<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
\n<\/strong>Anyone who clicks the button on your HyperFollow page to pre-save your release will automatically follow you on Spotify. In addition to following your artist page on Spotify, whoever clicks the button will also automatically save your music to their Spotify library. The purpose of this feature is to help organically grow your monthly listeners and increase song streaming.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>You will have access to the city-level geographic location and other demographic information about your fans. You\u2019ll be able to see the other music that your fans are listening too. Even if those other artists don\u2019t use DistroKid. You\u2019ll be able to see how many people visited your HyperFollow page and how many followers you added.<\/p>\nWant to know what else to add to your marketing and streaming strategy? Download our Music Marketing Check Sheet<\/a><\/span>!<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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