Spotify Algorithm Hack | Facebook Ads For Music

Struggling to get on Release Radar and Discover Weekly? This Spotify algorithm hack will help. Instead of focusing on getting on huge playlists, focus on what Spotify tells you they want. They want people to genuinely engage with your music on the platform, and if they do so Spotify will reward you with algorithmic playlist placements (assuming the engagement is good).
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  • @RyanVictorMusic
    @RyanVictorMusic4 жыл бұрын

    You are by far the only artists who's literally taken the time to educate your fellow artists by showing a step by step guide to setting up the ads campaign. This is great information. Thanks for being generous and sharing it. God Bless.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Ryan I appreciate that! Glad the information is helping you out.

  • @nylophone5730
    @nylophone57303 жыл бұрын

    I've spent lockdown binging on tutorials about how to promote your music and this is hands down the best channel I've come across. You're one of the precious few who don't come across like a motivational speaker. Just cold hard data.

  • @VishalPawarMusic

    @VishalPawarMusic

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not yet. You haven't seen JOHN OSZAJCA then

  • @voltage9240
    @voltage92404 жыл бұрын

    I gotta give it to you, you’re the f****** goat, you’re really out here handing out gold!! Keep it up bro!!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    hahaha thanks man I appreciate that! Glad you're getting a lot out of my videos.

  • @fantomfeelings702
    @fantomfeelings7023 жыл бұрын

    This guy gives the best marketing advice

  • @kimberlytownsend
    @kimberlytownsend2 ай бұрын

    Oh my goodness. Are you about to change my life? Thank you for laying this out in such a clear way - can't wait to soak up all you're sharing.

  • @dreaminginnoother
    @dreaminginnoother3 жыл бұрын

    It's amazing that after years of not knowing wtf to do to promote my music, all I had to do was find your videos and I now have a game plan. Feels good to have some idea of what to do.

  • @RickCourtneySongs
    @RickCourtneySongs2 жыл бұрын

    dude- thats some deep stuff...... I understand ROI more than anything- shorterm and longterm and its all about the longterm created by gains of the shortterms....

  • @SamSteiner
    @SamSteiner4 жыл бұрын

    Wow, man. Have watched quite a few of your videos and THANKS for that! I watch other channels like Damian Keyes or Burstimo, which are also great. What I love here is the real STUFF! Showing step by step how you do things. I get the feeling I recieved something I can take and put straight to use. Absolutely love this! That is NEXT LEVEL.

  • @nicotineblack6916
    @nicotineblack69164 жыл бұрын

    Awesome content as always, so much in dept information !

  • @ayMillmusic
    @ayMillmusic3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for sharing this! Super helpful!

  • @vinobeats
    @vinobeats3 жыл бұрын

    dude I’m learning lots from your channel, I’m really glad I put aside that your music isn’t necessarily for me but the info you have is immensely valuable, you’re doing amazing work. Gonna save up to support you in some way and return the reciprocity

  • @justinnelson9065
    @justinnelson90654 жыл бұрын

    Andrew, you just gained yourself a subscriber. This is some of the most informative, well thought-out, and useful content around this topic I've found on the internet. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us publicly. I have a single release coming up next month and will certainly be approaching it with this strategy.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Justin, thanks for joining the channel! Glad you found it helpful, hope you get the same results i'm getting.

  • @shaunredlake
    @shaunredlake3 жыл бұрын

    These videos are absolutely incredible Andrew. Delicately explained, crystal clear and no messing around with valuable information. Thank you so much. Your music is bloody awesome as well might I add! :) Take care x

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude! I appreciate that, glad you're getting a lot of value out of them. Also thanks about the music :D

  • @shaunredlake

    @shaunredlake

    3 жыл бұрын

    Andrew Southworth haha you’re welcome bud :) I’ve been shouting about you to my peers! Have a lovely day! X

  • @daydreametiquette
    @daydreametiquette4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew, I honestly love your tutorials on Facebook ads - I think they're the most direct and clearly explained ones out there for this type of thing. One thing I'm finding difficult to visualise however is the overall order in which a promotion should operate. For example; Do you start with an awareness campaign of certain groups to see who engages the most, then create a look alike from there and continue on or is a cold conversion fine to go with? I imagine it's just lots of practice with tweaking to see what sticks rather than a set order.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks I appreciate that! I try to be as direct as I can :D. So in this case I did run a pre-launch campaign with the Marcel video (shown in my last DistroKid video). I ran it to Post Malone fans, and from the engagement on that I was able to talk to some people and ask what music they like and what artists they think sound like the song. That gave me some ideas to use as targets for the. main campaign come launch day, and 99% of the traffic was pushed to a cold audience - for some reason my retargeting didn't perform as well as the cold audience. So the Marcel campaign was basically exploratory, but it did get me a lot of new Instagram followers and resulted in some genuine conversations with people. Research and testing in itself is still pretty valuable even if the retargeting doesn't work out well. But every song is a little different. I'm always testing new ideas to see what works, so it really is just lots of practice and tweaking. With experience you get better at predicting and researching though.

  • @daydreametiquette

    @daydreametiquette

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth That was an excellent response, you've really cleared it up for me! Thank you so much for taking the time to explain the process - It was super helpful.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome! Glad it cleared it up for you.

  • @MarkTiarra
    @MarkTiarra3 жыл бұрын

    This is such great info. I really appreciate you sharing this!

  • @ivanmahalel
    @ivanmahalel3 жыл бұрын

    Very good job, bro! THANKS!

  • @AndriSoren
    @AndriSoren3 жыл бұрын

    Another epic tip! Thanks, Andrew

  • @Hampton_hall
    @Hampton_hall3 жыл бұрын

    I never comment, but I had to on this video. Super helpful content my friend. You're straight to the point and you don't spend a large portion of the video with irrelevant commentary like most people. Keep it up bro!!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Hampton! I try to get to the point when I can haha.

  • @WarriorsofGodshow
    @WarriorsofGodshow4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew, love the videos man. As a new artist, who knows little to nothing about ads and promotion, I definitely appreciate it!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude, glad you're getting a lot out of the videos!

  • @SelbstmordGMBH
    @SelbstmordGMBH3 жыл бұрын

    I thrive for getting my Band going after some awful musician changes. Your content is Gold for that. Thank you for all information and pure value you put out to us.

  • @Donelomusic
    @Donelomusic2 жыл бұрын

    I think this guy gives the best marketing advice.. am on the road can't wait to get home next week to start.. i wanted to give up on facebook ads, but i believe on ur information.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude I appreciate that!

  • @legendaryc.s.t7135
    @legendaryc.s.t71352 жыл бұрын

    Bro I’m not gon lie. I spent a lot of bread 🍞 tryna get the type of gems you droppin 🙏🏾, Big Blessings 💯 👑

  • @ABoyCalledRic
    @ABoyCalledRic3 жыл бұрын

    bro your channel is so so helpful and genuine. I'm signing up to Hypeddit right now and follow all your steps. Thank you!

  • @jswitay
    @jswitay3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this!!

  • @iamchris1000
    @iamchris10004 жыл бұрын

    Great stuff again! Thanks 🙏

  • @apreski
    @apreski4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. Congrats on the single

  • @BrandonShere
    @BrandonShere4 жыл бұрын

    Great video man! Love this strategy!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Brandon, thanks man! Hope you see success with it.

  • @mikestoyanov13
    @mikestoyanov133 жыл бұрын

    bro you should have waaaay more subscribers, this is fire

  • @takla9256
    @takla92563 жыл бұрын

    I think this the best marketing / music channel on KZread. Others talk but just talk you talk knowledge and show it too. Good stuff

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude I appreciate that! Glad you’re enjoying the channel 🙌

  • @takla9256

    @takla9256

    3 жыл бұрын

    Andrew Southworth for sure 🔥 keep making these types of videos . Always trying to learn new marketing ways/ techniques

  • @shapeofthesun
    @shapeofthesun4 жыл бұрын

    This is similar to what happened with my recent single. It did ok for the first 2 weeks. Then it got put in a bunch of Release Radars and the streams shot up. I would agree that saves and save rates are very important.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome man! Yeah it totally works as long as you have a solid enough song and you're targeting the right people. Its worked for several of my releases, your releases, and several other artists I run ads for.

  • @EricJensenMusic
    @EricJensenMusic3 жыл бұрын

    Loving your content! How long do you make the ad (do you make a full 60 second ad or just 15 seconds since it’s for a story)? Thanks again!

  • @nylophone5730
    @nylophone57303 жыл бұрын

    7.43 Hi Andrew. I'm using toneden for this process as suggested by you. When I get to this part of the process I don't see custom conversion event. Any chance you could tell me what I might be doing wrong, or if I'm even supposed to see that option here for toneden?

  • @ConradAshtonMusic
    @ConradAshtonMusic4 жыл бұрын

    These vids are so good!!! Far too many people doing similar talk too much or want you to buy their products or courses and all that whereas you don't you are so genuine and just wanna help people! Literally giving out gold man!! For FREE. Unbelievable.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Conrad, thanks so much! Glad you're enjoying the videos. While I do also have products and a course that opened for a small batch of beta-testing students last week, and a new Patreon page, I try to give out tons of value for free. While I was learning this stuff I was pretty annoyed at how nothing was just laid out for free, everyone had a paywall to get ANY information. So my perspective is give out enough where people could take what I teach and run with it and get great results, and the courses and Patreon stuff is for people to get a more thorough step-by-step process and keep up to date with everything i'm testing. Some artists have been able to completely replicate my success with these videos, others need a more guided approach either because they don't know the basics or they just want the full package of knowledge and some of my insight.

  • @worth2worthnation
    @worth2worthnation3 жыл бұрын

    Damn! Definitely service to others. It's easy for your followers to remain loyal followers. Keep it up!

  • @KevinBennettMusic
    @KevinBennettMusic4 жыл бұрын

    awesome stuff, brother

  • @singalongwithtony
    @singalongwithtony4 жыл бұрын

    Another great video, mate. Well done and thank you! I have an odd question, do you think this would work for kids music?

  • @imchantal
    @imchantal2 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for sharing your knowledge with fellow musicians

  • @barryfelipe
    @barryfelipe4 жыл бұрын

    Congrats on the success of the song. This was a very educational and insightful video. THANK YOU!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Barry! Glad it helped you out!

  • @quanhundon5399
    @quanhundon53994 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful thank you 🙏🏾

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Quan, thanks I appreciate that! Glad it helped you out.

  • @GeriSzabadosMusic
    @GeriSzabadosMusic4 жыл бұрын

    thank you for the valuable content you're putting out there! Have you ever tried advertising a Spotify playlist instead of just one song? If someone who opens the song with a free Spotify account they can only shuffle play your song. Which means it's gonna put a lot of random tracks from random artist there before you hear your song. But if you put your playlist with your songs they will surely hear your songs. Even if it's shuffle play

  • @LEWSAMUSIC
    @LEWSAMUSIC3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this, one day I had 150 clicks on a landing page for platforms and no clicks to the music platforms. By splitting up ads and doing links straight through to the music I know all the link clicks are going to the music.

  • @prls3081
    @prls30813 жыл бұрын

    Wow - after 1.5 months after the release I calculated roughly how many times someone who came from a facebook ad listened to my song. Currently they listened 7.5 times to it... thats pretty awesome. The number still grows, maybe I can reach a point where I get my money back

  • @ericn2012
    @ericn20123 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew, this is tremendous, thank you for sharing! I was wondering if you had follow up results with running ads from your artist page vs a "fake" label? Did the fake label outperform the artist page drastically?

  • @a.c.a.6557
    @a.c.a.65573 жыл бұрын

    You better sing! I loved the little snippet of your ad where you were singing over your song. You sounded great! The song sounds great too! Thanks for all the valuable information! ~Alicia T.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Alicia! Yeah I do sing in most of my songs. If you hear a man's voice in my music, with the exception of Chains and Neutron, its me.

  • @EamonSefton
    @EamonSefton3 жыл бұрын

    Brother your videos have inspired me to do a total 180 on music promo. I was about to pay a playlist pusher and now I feel like I have a real plan.

  • @adamdanmusic
    @adamdanmusic4 жыл бұрын

    Very helpful. Thanks man. To clarify - were you placing this ad on Facebook stories? If so, do you recommend Facebook stories over Instagram stories for ad placement? Thanks and grats on the campaign success.

  • @gurubambinosounds9344
    @gurubambinosounds93444 жыл бұрын

    Amazing strategy as always Andrew! Thank you for sharing Just have one doubt regarding Audiences targeting: Why did you use different artists on interests (such as Linking Park, etc) instead of using Lookalike audiences from your previous conversion campaigns which tend to be more effective? Is it because this song is different in style from your previous ones? Why didn't you "take advantage" of your previous data collection on your pixel and started from scratch? (yet with amazing results) Once again Thank you, x

  • @KyleOBrienmusic
    @KyleOBrienmusic3 жыл бұрын

    Killed it again, thanks!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Kyle! Hope it helped you out.

  • @freehawaiisurfing
    @freehawaiisurfing3 жыл бұрын

    Hey thanks for the info. Super easy watch! Your a good educator. Curious your thoughts of uploading a new song, album, to sound cloud or any free streaming service if your end goal is Spotify?

  • @BENJIVICE
    @BENJIVICE4 жыл бұрын

    Loved this strategy Andrew! Would be next level if they had a "audience behavior" of ppl who frequently save/follow on spotify

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks dude! Glad you dug the strategy. Yeah I know, or even better if we could embed a Pixel on a song or profile in Spotify to trigger conversions for when people do certain actions. You can kind of do something similar with a download gate, but its expensive and looks very scary to the listener due to all the permissions needed haha.

  • @earthman3934
    @earthman39343 жыл бұрын

    Well Informative

  • @ronnizag
    @ronnizag4 жыл бұрын

    I have to say i love those videos about ads for Spotify etc. I guess you didnt do any sepparation based on tiers of the countries but you target them based on artist genre? Based on your experience if we were doing ads for jbalvin latin kind of song what would you think would be Best plan for the ad? To Target the genre or the tier of coutries? Thanks a lot!!

  • @macofatz2540
    @macofatz25404 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew first of all I truly want to thank you for all the information you share with us. I will be releasing on July 17th and hope this strategy works for me as well!

  • @punkangel112
    @punkangel1123 жыл бұрын

    Heey Andrew, really loving your vids bro! Helps me allot. Just a question, I released my first single for this project. So first song ever on the spotify account, I notice my streams are not that high, but 20 cents per converstion, still not every conversion leads to a stream. Its around 20 - 40 a day, whats your advice on starting from scratch? Thank You!

  • @JubyKing
    @JubyKing3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew thanks for all your videos. you give a lot of great information. love the channel. Quick question. On these ads that you ran how do you get the conversions to $0.10? did you set your cost control or did you average that based on your ad settings.?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! I drive the cost down by creating multiple ad sets with varying audiences, each with several ad creatives. This lets FB test and figure out where the cheapest results are.

  • @JubyKing

    @JubyKing

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth thanks Andrew. I will try the multiple ad strategy. Thank you for your help. 🙏🙏🙏

  • @JubyKing

    @JubyKing

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth do you have to leave it up for a few days to get the cost down. I set up the multiple ad sets and still averaging around $.50

  • @NicoSantanaMusic
    @NicoSantanaMusic4 жыл бұрын

    Amazing breakdown and insight. Thank you Andrew

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Nico, thanks so much! Glad you found this helpful.

  • @danaproducer
    @danaproducer2 жыл бұрын

    You are the MAN, Andrew! I've watched this vid so many times cause I pick up something new each time. Is your badass, color-coded spreadsheet available anywhere to download? For free or for purchase or as an email signup CTA?? lol ;-). Figured I'd ask before manually recreating your handiwork on my own (and undoubtedly botching an equation or three...). Thanks as always for the great vids!!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!! I think this is the spreadsheet you're talking about? Its a free download for email. hd.andrewonspotify.com/qb044s

  • @danaproducer

    @danaproducer

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth THANKS!! That was it, indeed! I KNEW you must have had some sort of free download for email - smart! And that Hypeddit landing page with the email capture + spotify/tiktok follow is super genius. #legend. Thanks, Andrew!!

  • @jonnybennett7091
    @jonnybennett70913 жыл бұрын

    hey dude! thanks so much for your videos - I've watched them religiously this year and they've been so helpful. quick question though - have you ever encountered this method not working? i.e. getting lots of new listeners and not spiking the algorithm? has worked well for us this year and assumed it would be similar on our new single. ads have pulled in around 800 listeners in week 1 and running at about 40% save rate but not seeing much of a spike a week after release.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Jonny! Glad they've been helping you out. It definitely doesn't ALWAYS work, or at least not always the same. There are a lot of other variables we can't see, like song skip rates and how long the listener spent on your profile. Typically if a song has over 1,000 saves, over a 50% save rate, and a stream/listener ratio of over 2.5 i've seen it get a Release Radar boost . Sometimes it takes more than that, and sometimes it takes less. I'm sure the amount of playlists users add you to plays a factor as well, and i'm sure how closely the other songs in the playlist are correlated matters also. For Discover Weekly i've seen 10-15k streams and a 50%+ save rate to get on it, but other people have told me they got on with less streams and a worse save rate, other times people hit those numbers and still don't get it. Once again, there are a million variables here we can't see. Some songs do better than others naturally, so i've found it can be useful to know when a song isn't going as planned so that you can adjust your strategy and consider switching to a smaller campaign, or on the flip side if a song is doing much better to double down and push it further.

  • @jonnybennett7091

    @jonnybennett7091

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth Hey Andrew, thank you for such a thorough reply dude! Guess in light of this it feels like it’s hard to strike the balance between creative freedom and chasing the algorithm, that it’s really difficult to get traction if the song doesn’t conform to an accessible length and structure

  • @jusinabus
    @jusinabus4 жыл бұрын

    Hi Andrew! Once again thanks for the awesome video! Just wanted to ask if there is any difference between using Socialize and something free like the distrokid hyperfollow page. If so, what are the benefits that socialize provide that these other pages cannot provide. Thanks in advance!

  • @monalisayrodrigo
    @monalisayrodrigo4 жыл бұрын

    Ran our first campaign with your advice and it did great, thanks! Now on second campaign, but the priority and mid markets have been stuck on "learning phase" for a couple of days, with almost no clicks. Is this normal? Thanks in advance, Andrew.

  • 3 жыл бұрын

    Excelente 🙌💯

  • @themodernworldband
    @themodernworldband3 жыл бұрын

    Thank You Andrew. Have been searching for this information for years! Your videos have changed my band's fortunes around. I have a question which I'm sure a lot of us share and would be so valuable. Do you know what the minimal amount of streams in week one is (after release) to trigger the Discover Weekly algorithm and get that boost? We just released a single and got just under 1000 streams in the first week. Great results, but wasn't enough to trigger the algo, so just wondering based on these results how much we'd have to spend to get that extra push. Save rate is in the 60% area, average 2.8 plays per listener. Please like this comment/comment if you have the same question! Good luck people, and thanks again Andrew!

  • @SlobodanIOfficial
    @SlobodanIOfficial4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, Andrew! This is a totally wonderful information. Because you spend $20 daily, how much did you choose to spend on each of 16 ads? Did you put a limit, or you let FB optimize this behavior? Thank you!

  • @bonzartworks2984
    @bonzartworks29842 жыл бұрын

    7:01 - so If i use KUJI will i sit get this same option ?

  • @fonoptikon
    @fonoptikon3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Andrew, how do create the campaign into a folder with the ad sets into it ? 5:02 - I want to have my ad sets directory the way you have it, Thanks in advance !

  • @mikmadeit313
    @mikmadeit3133 жыл бұрын

    you always look disappointed at your streams in your thumbnails...in a good way... LOVE the content

  • @AliBlaBla
    @AliBlaBla4 жыл бұрын

    mr andrew. So if you send people to spotify (which can be done with URL redirector/pixel), it opens the webplayer. From what I gather though, the user needs to listen to more than 30 seconds for a stream to be counted. So even if you get mad cheap cost per click, if those people dont actually like it or want to hear, its a waste of money right?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. Thats why I use the Hypeddit landing page, if someone goes through two clicks to hear the song they're probably very interested in actually listening to the song. If you send traffic to either a bad song, or send the wrong people to it, you're actually hurting the song because it increases your skip rate. The nice thing about my type of ads is people only make it to Spotify if they're already invested into hearing the song.

  • @amiammusic
    @amiammusic4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew! Great video! Why are you using Hypeddit landing page vs. just the Distrokid hyperlink landing page?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Daniel, thanks! I'm using Hypeddit because they let you embed the Facebook Pixel on the conversion. On the Hyperlink you can embed a Pixel, but you can't use it to track when someone clicks to go to Spotify. I've already talked to my contact at DistroKid and recommended they add some type of feature like this, hopefully they add it! Aside from that Hyperfollow is a fantastic tool to put in your social media links, and emails to fans. Its just not as efficient on ads.

  • @farmerjones766
    @farmerjones7664 жыл бұрын

    great content, thanks a lot for sharing! but i always gotta keep remember me that the main goal is to create great music, otherwise every promotion won't help...

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Yeah totally. You need a great song or album to promote for this to be effective, no getting around that! The only slight difference i'll say, is that you don't need perfection. As long as the song is at least 80% as good as anything on thats popular, you can promote it with pretty great results. I'm a curator on SubmitHub and I find SO much music I don't like at all thats insanely popular, and I find SO much music I think is fricken fabulous that gets almost no traffic. 80% is of course just a rough number. The song just has to be good enough to basically fit on a playlist with 'pro-music', and blend in as if it was also 'pro'.

  • @AliceKovska
    @AliceKovska3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for such valuable info! In the video you mention you selected all Spotify countries for this ad. Did you exclude any, particularly countries where ads are cheaper so they don’t eat the cost or did you not worry about that for this ad?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Alice! I only exclude India from the list, but sometimes i'll put them in their own Ad Set with a budget cap. Sometimes Brazil gets out of control so I sometimes also separate that.

  • @AliceKovska

    @AliceKovska

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth thank you for your response!

  • @santz5621
    @santz56214 жыл бұрын

    Well done I love how you include rreal life. Examples all love one love

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    thanks! glad you enjoyed it, hope it helps.

  • @JeffreyChanMusic
    @JeffreyChanMusic3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this! Just got it all set up but not sure what I'm doing wrong with my 'Custom Conversion' set up that it's not registering clicks as results?... Can I ask what you put in the 'Rules' section?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you're using Hypeddit you can just make a custom conversion off of the Hypeddit Smart Link Click, no need to put in any rules. It might take like 30 minutes to show up.

  • @mikeo2208
    @mikeo22082 жыл бұрын

    Hi Andrew, how long does it take Spotify to show stats on the daily? I am looking at my Google Analytics data on the conversion link clicks for Jan 27, shows 147 conversions to the the Spotify link, however Spotify shows I only received 3 streams. My facebook custom conversion pixel is showing 206. I am having a hard time interpreting which data is accurate. Any help's appreciated, thanks!

  • @8alin321
    @8alin3213 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew, I have been running a campaign on Facebook for 1 week. My EP has gottenn 1k streams over the last week, which is great! However the songs aren't being found on any playlists yet. Does this usually only begin to happen after the first week?

  • @MUNDAZEBAND
    @MUNDAZEBAND3 жыл бұрын

    Did you crunch all that data in the spreadsheet yourself? Or is most of it available on Spotify for Artists?

  • @luiszapiola355
    @luiszapiola3554 жыл бұрын

    Great video !!! Did you also set the ad on FB stories?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I used all story placements for this. Although 95% or more ends up showing on IG, it sometimes finds cheap results on FB or Messenger stories.

  • @jeanpaulmaksoud4411
    @jeanpaulmaksoud44114 жыл бұрын

    Súper helpful bro. I tried funnel strategy and also did Well. Are you recomending to run the ads with another account? Because I have consider doing that

  • @RickCourtneySongs
    @RickCourtneySongs2 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @RickCourtneySongs

    @RickCourtneySongs

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lots of good info Ive learned today...

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    2 жыл бұрын

    Hey Rick thanks a ton for the $10, appreciate the support!

  • @RickCourtneySongs

    @RickCourtneySongs

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth Im learning- thanks for sharing.... running three tests at once- a push playlist- a submithub and FB ads...... as a newbie- I know results differ so not putting pressure on any of it... one day at a time- one follower..haha

  • @centani2073
    @centani20733 жыл бұрын

    I got the hypeddit pro service and added the Facebook pixel but I don’t know how to set the conversion on Facebook. Hypeddit doesn’t show up. Any help?

  • @Isoldefair
    @Isoldefair3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for all this info, incredible. I have a question though, when I see tracking campaigns with links to Spotify songs, the data from FB is WAY higher than that from Spotify. Let's say FB is reporting a thousand clicks to a song on Spotify and Spotify shows only 20+ streams of that song during that same period I'm wondering what could be happening? Thanks!!

  • @Hunterwolf

    @Hunterwolf

    3 жыл бұрын

    After being in touch with Spotify support that's what they said: "We're afraid that views from third party sites such as KZread and other social media pages aren't credited on Spotify." We must missing something, because Andrew clearly got them!

  • @onyxxproductions8187

    @onyxxproductions8187

    3 жыл бұрын

    Several things can affect that. One is that if the person has the free Spotify account, they can't directly listen to your song on mobile. They can only shuffle. So, poorer countries may mostly have free Spotify accounts. The other is that they have to listen to at least 30 seconds of the song to count as a stream. And, another issue is that many people are reporting that events from ToneDen are not translating to Spotify streams. That was what happened with us. Over 200 conversions on ToneDen and no difference in streams. We are switching to Hyppedit.

  • @ChrisMichaelMusic
    @ChrisMichaelMusic3 жыл бұрын

    Hey man, fantastic videos! I've been told that uploading/releasing a basic demo prior to undergoing a campaign like this for a big single release also helps with Spotify's algorithm. Would you agree with that? I'm getting ready to release a handful of singles over the summer, but I'm wondering if it would be prudent to upload a three song demo of acoustic tracks beforehand?

  • @royemblem7699
    @royemblem76992 жыл бұрын

    Does anyone know if Andrew does retainers to run ads for other Artists??

  • @Tim_ArtistName_Tallent
    @Tim_ArtistName_Tallent3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew, once you know your Ad with you singing along to your song performed the best, would you cancel the other ads moving forward, or continue to diversify and run multiple ads? Also,, how much $ per week was your initial budget for each of those 4 ads? thanks!!

  • 4 жыл бұрын

    Great video dude! I remember watching your how to scream videos years ago, happy you still make such a good content! Keep it coming! 🤘🏻

  • @andreacolombo822
    @andreacolombo8223 жыл бұрын

    Hello Andrew, super interesting video. I work in web advertising, so no probelm for me to set up campaigns and such.. but since we want to start some microscopic promotion for my band I have a couple of quesitons: - Why would you recommend stories over PPL or Video ads on the FB feed? (I ask because you can use those organic posts as ads, but you can't with stories) - Would you recommend pushing a song, a playlist or just the band's profile? Of course the best thing would be to test all these options, but our budget doesn't allow for too much experimenting :/ Thanks a lot Andrea

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've actually started using more feed placements as well which can drop the cost further depending on the song, but for a while stories were performing best, and I think its because by default stories are played with sound already on and feed ads the sound is off. Typically I push a song when the song is brand new, and in between songs I direct traffic to my profile.

  • @shallowwavesmusic
    @shallowwavesmusic4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew, Really love the videos, you've been posting. They have been extremely helpful. I do have a question regarding conversion optimization in Ads manager. When I followed the steps ( I did put in a lower value than 20 dollars a day), facebook mentioned that the ad will be getting 0 views ( I did use similar methods to yours with Spotify territories for target and a band as well as a genre) unless I switch under the " Optimization For Ad Delivery" button to Landing Page Views instead of Conversions as it was originally set. Under Conversions ( In Optimization For Ad Delivery) my reach is 2.9 to 8.3k but my conversions is 0 ( unless i upped to $20 a day then its 5-13). However, if I switch to Landing Views, my reach is 6.2 to 18k and my conversions 16-46. Any advice would be helpful before I continue. Thanks, Zaid

  • @Unzyme
    @Unzyme3 жыл бұрын

    I've been doing the same thing on KZread, and it brings video views, but it doesn't really have much of an effect on Spotify plays, which are more important in the eyes of industry professionals. I will try your FB ad approach next.

  • @pashayk
    @pashayk3 жыл бұрын

    Hi Andrew! Firstly, thank you so much for your videos! I watched like a bunch of them today and found a lot of info that i've been searching for some time now. As I am preparing for my next release, i want to learn how to use FB ads properly as i did fail with it quite a lot in the past. But secondly, my question is more outside of the topic of this video. I have a song coming out (a bunch of songs already released with the same issue), and i struggle to find similar sounding artists for those songs. I tried it all: asked my friends to name artists that it reminds them of, asked my musician friends to do the same. Tried searching through the artists that i am into and similar to them. But it feels like i am not really making the same music that i am listening to. And i dont have enough streams on Spotify to see related artists for myself. Is there any tip you could share? maybe there is some kind of website that i could submit my song for people to listen and help find similar artists? Would appreciate your advise. Thank you!

  • @TaoBBQ
    @TaoBBQ3 жыл бұрын

    Hi what is stream and running stream? I am a bit confuse, with that. Good content man!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks man. Basically streams is the amount of streams that day, running streams is the sum total of streams.

  • @PRINCEMAJINVEGETA
    @PRINCEMAJINVEGETA3 жыл бұрын

    Hey man! How are you? Are you able to tell how to exactly link the Facebook pixel to a landingpage like toneden!? Mine is not working correctly (at all) and therefor I’m not able to run the conversion ads. Hope to hear from you man

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    For ToneDen you copy your Pixel ID into the ToneDen link in the settings, and then in your ads you just use the View Content conversion event (in the ad set is where you add it).

  • @mattabbagnaro6677
    @mattabbagnaro66774 жыл бұрын

    I got more homework to do LOL! thank you man so much value in one video

  • @mlle_aya
    @mlle_aya3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this video! I will follow your method because lately I haven’t been getting good results with FB ads...and I realized that it was because I click on traffic instead of conversion 😅 For the smart link, does it work with Snipfeed? Looking forward to your answer. Thank you.

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Never heard of snipfeed so I’m not sure. As long as you can track conversions and set up a custom domain it would work. Most people use ToneDen or hypeddit.

  • @lost_valley
    @lost_valley4 жыл бұрын

    Not surprised your new single is doing great, that track sounds awesome! ...just wondering why you prefer Hypeddit over Distrokid Hyperfollow, never tried but Hyperfollow is supposed to automatically add followers as they click the spotify button

  • @YashMyGosh
    @YashMyGosh3 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew should I make the Languages section to English(All) and enable Detailed Targeting Expansion or not ?

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah I turn on english (since my music is in english). Turn off detailed targeting expansion. Sometimes it can help, but other times it hurts performance. I always have it off when I initially make the ad, then later i'll test adding it to new ad sets.

  • @djdancealone3419
    @djdancealone34193 жыл бұрын

    Okay, How do you create ad campaigns with ad campaigns?

  • @LuiSalazar
    @LuiSalazar4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew! I sent you a message on Instagram, but in case you don't get it, I'll leave a comment here. I'm a little confused about Facebook Pixel. I recently set up a Hypeddit pro Smart Link to connect to my new single on Spotify. The Ads manager is saying I have to verify my pixel by either editing my website's code or using Google Tag manager. Do I need to edit my website's code even though I'm using a Hypeddit smart link? I'm not seeing how the two are connected. I put my Pixel ID in the Hypeddit smart link, but don't know what to do from there. Thanks!

  • @gorge.michle7468
    @gorge.michle74686 ай бұрын

    I ran a conversion ad on facebook but it was costing me $1 per conversion. I'm not sure if Facebook ads are more expensive now or if I set up the ad incorrectly.

  • @InternalRhyme
    @InternalRhyme4 жыл бұрын

    Did you have campaign optimization turned on? When I have it turned on, it won't show me those estimated conversions on the right hand side

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hmm thats interesting. Yeah I always used CBO, but I see the estimated conversions, keep in mind that when you start adding multiple ad sets or budget restrictions the data stops showing.

  • @mesmi
    @mesmi3 жыл бұрын

    just curious, was this campaign for a relatively new song, like starting the day it released? wondering on the time-frame of the "newness" for getting momentum rolling like you did!

  • @AndrewSouthworth

    @AndrewSouthworth

    3 жыл бұрын

    At midnight on release day i'm always up and making my ad campaigns for both myself, my other projects, or clients. This way the campaigns can be active ASAP. You don't have to be as crazy as I am with it haha, i'm sure doing it the morning of would be sufficient. Just try to at least get your stuff running on day 1.

  • @mesmi

    @mesmi

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@AndrewSouthworth oops, might be a little too late for me & my latest release then lol. but thank you, really helpful to know the time-sensitivity!

  • @remineutron
    @remineutron4 жыл бұрын

    Hey Andrew great video!! I'm a little confused on how you set up the conversion event for the hypeddit smart link click, how did u activate the event??

  • @AnthonyShapers

    @AnthonyShapers

    3 жыл бұрын

    Same !!

  • @MiKEY_SANZ

    @MiKEY_SANZ

    3 жыл бұрын

    He did a video about how to do the pixel with TonDen, i recommend just using ToneDen instead. I hope Andrew starts exclusively using ToneDen from now on

  • @AnthonyShapers

    @AnthonyShapers

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MiKEY_SANZ Yes I saw it ! Thanks!

  • @nikhiliyer

    @nikhiliyer

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MiKEY_SANZ toneden can do this process for free right??

  • @sjnicholson9035

    @sjnicholson9035

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MiKEY_SANZ Guys I need help with this. I am confused. Anyone keen to help me?