![]() You need to be realistic with who you choose to target though. You’re not going to jump straight on to the major channels straight away – you’ll often need to work your way up by building relationships with smaller channels to start with.ĭon’t underestimate this approach – every channel started small to begin with. How to find these channels and contact them And don’t forget that these channels are also looking to grow.īuild good relationships with smaller influencers today, and they may well be running some of the larger channels on YouTube in a few years time. The best way to get to find these channels is to get on YouTube yourself and start getting a feel for what’s going on in your channel. ![]() YouTube can be a bit of a rabbit hole – once you’re on a song you’re presented with a whole load of other recommended music videos which makes it very easy to find more and more related songs and channels. We’d suggest you use this approach as a great starting point to locating channels that may be suitable. To show you how this process works let’s go through an example. Say we’re a house music producer looking to promote our track. We’re looking for an artist that hasn’t quite broken through to the mainstream but has a similar sound to ours and is making good traction. You can see the channels highlighted in yellow on the results below: In this instance we’ve chose the the track ‘What I know’ by Dallerium.Ī search on this track on YouTube reveals a list of all the channels that have uploaded this track. If we take the ‘ Thrills’ channel as an example, visiting their page we can get an idea of the amount of subscribers: Scrolling down this list you will see a wide range of channels, with a wide range of subscriber counts. This can help you determine the size of the channel and also the amount of submissions they receive. The next step would be to visit the ‘About’ page on their channel to get an idea of what sort of music they share, and also the best way to contact them. On this about page we can see that Thrills is a house music blog and features all types of house subgenres. We can also get all the information required to send submissions to them. Using the Dallerium example above we were able to find a whole load of potential channels to reach out to in just a few minutes, all with a wide range of subscriber counts: Repeat this process for a few different songs and you’ll start to build a database of channels suited to your genre to get submitting your tracks to. It’s worth being selective when it comes to what channels you submit to. ![]() One thing we would always check is activity – make sure the channels that you are submitting to are active. This is as simple as checking the upload history and making sure they have been consistently uploading music videos. How to submit your music to YouTube channelsįinding channels to promote to is the easy part, actually getting your track onto them is the difficult bit.
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