Music Video Alternatives For Musicians - 5 Cheaper Options For Result

If you do not have a financial plan or budget for a music video or simply do not feel like it’s a wise investment? Today we will share with you five other options. We have worked with countless musicians and music video distributors who are either endorsed to a significant name or delivering freely, putting tremendous measures of cash into a music video. Furthermore, they do not generally change over to better yields to get significant returns on a music video project.

You either need to as of now need to be an established artist, have a music video that has the potential, or does really become a web sensation meaning going viral. Or then again have an influencer in your video where individuals will look for that influencer first, and afterward wind up watching your music video. These things will permit your music video to get extra openness above what you as of now would have from pushing your music via web-based media.

Or just through people listening on Spotify, if your music video only acts as a complementary piece of content for those, who have already known you as an artist or heard your track, then it is not a good return on investment, especially from a marketing perspective. As you know, if you are a subscriber on this channel, we are not a big advocate for emerging artists to get music videos, the amount that they cost is so much that you do not gain new fans from it.

Assuming you took that cash and put it in different spots, you will improve profit from your investment. Indeed. Major musicians can get a profit from interest in their music recordings because their music gets moved up by the YouTube algorithm. So, assuming you are tuning in to one musician. You will get proposed other musicians’ music video content when they are well established, yet it does not work like this for an emerging artist.

It does work like this on Spotify in terms of discovering weekly playlists. So, here’s our five alternatives to a music video, which will get you a good return on investment and all of these points. To be honest, are coming from the perspective of trying to get the YouTube algorithm to push out your music video.

That’s when your music will go out to a wider audience and come up in the suggested or even up next, and it gets automatically played after another artist track.

Alt #1: Vlog with your music

You see the YouTube algorithm works by titles. Thumbnails, the title is everything. And if you can get people to click, then that means it will get pushed out by more people.

So if you can create a vlog, which has your track in the background, and it has some kind of clickbait title, and when we say clickbait, it has bad connotations. It means you are lying. But what I mean by clickbait is something that people want to click. The content has what you have in the title. In the content, it’s in the video, but it is something that’s going to affect, attract people to watch.

So if you look at Tableau newspapers, take a look at what their titles are, look at what the headlines are because they want you to buy the newspaper. They’ve got about five to six words to persuade you to buy that newspaper. Think about that when you’re titling your vlog. So you could create a vlog from the last two weeks of the band.

And all it has to be is short on an iPhone. And something happens in that vlog and you can use it as a title such as I can’t believe our guitarists. Did this, then people will click the video and they will want to see what happens. And perhaps the thumbnail has a picture of a crashed car in it, or a smashed-up guitar, something that is going to make people click.

And when they do click, you deliver good content. That is the length of your track. And it’s a hydro track in the background. Therefore you’ve now got a new potential fund. If they like your track, they will go and stream it on Spotify. And every time they go onto YouTube and you’ve uploaded again because they’ve watched your video, your new videos will come up in their suggested or on their homepage on YouTube.therefore you’re getting pushed out to a wider audience.

Alt #2: Lyric video

I know a lot of artists go for lyric videos, but you don’t have to do something like a fancy background and then animated lyrics. What you could do to make it more interesting is have a hybrid between a music video and a lyric video.

This makes it a lot more engaging. And actually our first demo, we found that when we run lyric videos, Ads some of our best cost-effective ads for getting people to watch click, and falling in love with the song is from a lyric video, which is a hybrid between a music video and a lyric video. So what happens is you’ve got a music video, which hasn’t cost that much to produce.

You’ve probably just filmed it on your iPhone of you singing the track, but the lyrics are animated and reacting to what’s going on on the screen. And therefore it’s. Engaging it’s entertaining and it gets people’s attention immediately. So that one is great for something like Instagram or Facebook, where you’re trying to get people to stop scrolling.

If something interesting happens in the first three to five seconds, plus there is the text just popping up on the screen constantly. Then you are going to be engaged in it and end up watching the full thing. We found this to be incredibly effective for breaking an artist.

Alt #3: Your Live performance

So if you can’t afford a music video, but you want something to accompany your track on YouTube, that is not necessarily just going to be the static image of your artwork. Then live performance video can really help engage people and just something that’s cool to accompany your truck and has cost you nothing.

You could get a couple of your friends who have iPhones to film you playing live or in a studio, and then you can edit it all together when it’s all synced up and create a nice video for your fans to be able to watch something while they’re listening to your new track.

The only problem with this point is, I don’t see how it can go out to a new potential audience. The only way is if your attraction is so good that people are going to share that video and they might share it on Spotify. Anyway, if your track is good. However, I find that people sharing YouTube links, it’s a lot easier because. Some people might be signed up to Deezer or Apple music and not have a Spotify account, but everyone can view something on YouTube.

So it does have that share-ability, but it’s not necessarily going to go viral just because you filmed it live. But if you’re on a budget and you want something cost-effective and visually pleasing, then a live performance can really work.

The fourth point is potentially my favorite point of all because I find it so effective for getting a new audience. To listen to your track. I mentioned it so often in our videos. And if you’re new to this website, then do subscribe to our newsletter because we approve new awesome videos every week.

Alt #4: Music Overlay

I mean taking other content and putting your music over the top of it. Of course, you need to get permission from the license holder, but all you have to do is find a video and put your music over the top of it, whether it’s football highlights, video skateboarding, video, or drums footage, something that people want to watch and are searching for.

So you can find that footage and put your music over the top. So for example, if you have a chilled tranquil song, then you can go and find it. The best mountain footage and ask if you can use the footage and credit them, and then put your track over the top, and people who are searching for that kind of content or like watching it will eventually find that video and listen to your track.

If they like the track, then they’ll go into the comments and go and stream it on Spotify. Or if you’ve got a more high-energy rap track rock truck, you could go find a UFC highlights video or some kind of sports event and put your music over the top of that. You’ll find that YouTube pushes out this kind of content.

You don’t necessarily title it. The title of the, your artist title, and the track title. Again, you need to have the title of something that people are searching for, and then they will hear your track. It’s better than any kind of radio play. Everyone wants to get played on BBC radio one here in the UK, but the potential audience there will be able to get an organic audience, listening to your truck.

Inadvertently is better than any kind of sync deal, radio play Spotify playlist. It is incredible how far your music can go with this kind of tactic.

Alt #5:Track Usage By Others

Allow someone else to use your track. So reach out to content creators, people who go out there, and create amazing videos.

Find videographers and say, Hey, I’m going to give you my truck license free to use in any of your videos and just keep pushing it out there. Go to big YouTube channels that might feature your track in the background and say, you can use my track royalty-free.

If you want to watch that video. After this one, and what ends up happening is people go to these YouTube channels with millions of subscribers and averaging about a hundred thousand views. And they have 30 seconds of your track in the YouTube video, or perhaps the views, the full truck all the way through.

And then if people like the truck, they go to the description where you’ve been credited and they stream the truck sometimes. These big influences even have their own Spotify playlist, which gets more streams than the official playlist. So you end up getting streams on Spotify and picked up by the Spotify algorithm, as well as the YouTube algorithm.

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