Why Paying For Ads Is A Waste Of Time & Money For Independent Musicians!!!...
Music business, or trying to become an artist, musician, is the only job that you can't apply to like other jobs. Other jobs, you put your resume out there on Monster, Indeed, whatever. You know what I'm saying? And you'll get calls from recruiters, you know. You get hits on your resume, all that. You put your song out on these platforms or what have you, and these platforms control who sees your music. And these platforms aren't pushing the music out.
You know, it's pay for play, you know, it's messing everything up. You know. And that's what's going on. Everybody knows it. You got some artists that, you know, can you really call them an artist or musician? And they're making music and over, you, you know, what they call music or whatever, and, but they know the game. You know? They got a big budget for that pay for play. But somehow the real artists, the real great musicians, they're always broke. But things are being done to keep them broke outside of music, so they can't put anything inside the music. You know, but they at least uploaded their music, but it's just sitting there.
So you can't organically grow because the algorithms keep changing. And now where you had some views or some engagement, you got nothing. So you have to pay, and then you're paying for these ads, and then the ads are not delivering. There's no return on investment, no ROI, nothing. You know what I'm saying? And they know this. So now you're just throwing your money away. You independent artist, you financing everything yourself. Your credit halfway bad. You can't leverage that to get more money. And the little money you do get to put in the ads, they're not even showing it to people. They're serving your videos up to a dead audience on sites that aren't active anymore or even online anymore.
I had that, I remember way back in the day I did a ReverbNation ad for one of my songs. I don't even fuck with them no more, man. It's just, it's just nasty work over there. But anyway. And a lot of their ads that they were showing, the ads they were showing it to a lot of sites that were dead sites or wasn't online anymore. Basically, they're just showing it to nobody. And you're just throwing money down the drain. That's the game. You gotta build your shit up organically yourself for real. I'm thinking about it. I found another service, they claim can do this and do that with the artist, blah, blah, blah. But you know, I'm keeping my fucking money. I'm not wasting no more money on music promotion. Not out of my motherfucking pocket. Build something else up because the music was supposed to speak for itself. But it's just all fucked up, you know.
Yeah, it is what it is. Yeah. It's just pay for play, though. It fucked everything up. Everybody wanna be an artist, so they're not gonna support the real good artists and shit. Or anyone, so. You got the already have the numbers. So then they can think like, well, you can't beat them, we'll join you and shit. Because that's all they're really looking at is the numbers.
But the algorithms, they're fucking everything up. They're not pushing independent artists, not pushing the songs out. You got subscribers on your channel, and you make an upload, your subscribers don't even see your uploads. They make it like that. You know who I'm talking about, YouTube. You got 4,000 subscribers, none of them see your uploads or anything.
You know. I was getting like four, six hundred subscribers every upload on YouTube. Then that motherfucker just stopped out of nowhere because they changed up the algorithm, the terms of service, TOS agreement. They changed that shit up. Next thing you know, I'm getting fucking nothing. Somebody up in that motherfucker looking like, nah, we gotta keep this other boy up top.
We can't let this motherfucker, you know what I'm saying? But any fucking way, it'll work out. But I'm just not about to put my money, I'm not about to let them waste my money down the drain. I'd be rich as fuck rich as fuck right now if I ain't waste my money on music.
Your True Savage,
Savage Made
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