Thursday, 14 November 2013

(Task 4) London Grammar Essay

London Grammar are a British band from that formed in 2009, since then the media sites like Facebook and twitter have help get the band "Out-There". Without the popular social network site "Facebook" the band would not have formed in the first place.
On  the 12 December 2012, London Grammar posted their song "Hey Now" on YouTube and now has over 1.9 million views, and there Sound Cloud also had around 370,000 plays in early 2013, which has grown over the year to be in the millions. This is a synergy relationship the band has mad with these to site.
Because of the Internet they where able to market themselves and there music around the world, proof of this is because there EP Metal & Dust made the top five of the iTunes chart in Australia. On there Website there are lots of external to lots of different social media sight like Facebook, Instagram and Sound Cloud. This increases there presence on the internet. In an interview with a NHS Manager she said she was watching a vlogger talking about London Grammar on YouTube, then she said she then listened to the song ‘Hey Now’ on YouTube and really enjoyed it, after listning to extracts of the songs on there new album on iTunes she went and bought the album to play in her new car. Later that day she posted a facebook status saying ‘Just been listening to London Grammar in my new Car with the roof down. Lovely car, lovely music, lovely day :D’ she said that her cousin said she really liked it and that she had just bought a couple of tracks on itunes. and also that another friend messaged her saying she’d never heard of them before but she’d just downloaded the whole album. We then sent a questionnair arround the school about how they found the music they listened to and  30% of people bought music based on a recommendation from a facebook friend or other social media site? but 80% Have downloaded music illegally based on a recommendation from a facebook friend or other social media site.



Wednesday, 30 October 2013

(Task 3) Music Marketing using the Media

Music Company and Artists have started to use internet sites like YouTube and sound cloud to demo there music (new albums from artist the support/manage/produce for) before or around the general release of the album.
1) the first example of this marketing technique is used by Ultra Music, they released all the songs on "deadmau5's"new album "> album title goes here <" was released on 24/09/11, and the day after Ultra Records posted the whole album (Track by Track)
2) the second example is Tinie Tempah who posted on his you tube channel a 22 minute video demoing 90 seconds of his new album around 2-3 week before the release of his album "Demonstrations"
3) my last example is that Deadmau5 uses sound cloud to demo new sounds, beats and song to his fans, this means that they practically feed him what his fans like, don't like and want to hear, then some of the track he posts on sound cloud, he releases as tracks on his album
These 3 examples show how artist and company’s market there music. 2 of the examples are the artist/company releasing the songs (or sections of the song) on YouTube before or around the release date of the album, This is marketing because this is the company/artist is allowing people to listen the music to see if they like it and to see if they like it enough to buy the album.  The other example of deadmau5 using Sound Cloud is marketing because he is sharing the making of his songs and receiving feedback about what they like and how he’s music should sound.
Evidence to show that this marketing scheme works is in the comments of the YouTube videos. For the Tinie Tempeh album video demoing all the tracks, 70% of the comments said that they had pre-ordered or about the pre-order the album.
Evidence to show that this marketing scheme works is in the comments of the YouTube videos. For the Ultra Music and Deadmau5’s New Album Videos, around 40% of the comments said that they were going to go out and buy the album.