 It's the network. Oh, what's up everybody? Once again, it's Brandon man, Sean. And this is inside the network and exclusive series where we show you guys clips from inside of Brandon network.com. Not just clips from videos, but exclusive artist sessions that we host as well. And in this particular clip that you're about to see, Corey is talking about how you get on big YouTube pages. And after that, I'm going to get deeper into music, video, marketing and content as a whole on YouTube as well. It's the network still on the subject of YouTube. If your YouTube channel is like clearly, like, you know, it's you just started it or you just don't have a following. And like you're seeking you're seeking like other platforms. What's like the best way to pitch your YouTube video to these kinds of platforms? What do you mean? Like, give me give me an example. Um, I don't know. Like Paisons and Plains or like Lyrical Lemonade like platform, you know, platforms that post music videos. Oh, okay. Um, well, a lot of those channels don't, not them in particular, but like, you know, just in general, like channels that post music and post videos are stuff like that. A lot of them typically don't really don't care what your subscriber base is. Um, most of the channels you're going to run into are going to one, one or two things is one quality content that matches their base or two year money. Like just to be real, it's always one of those two either that they they have to see that and sometimes both sometimes like you have to fit what we do and you have to pay us. Um, but so your subscriber count doesn't really matter a lot more in that space with when you're starting to grow your channel. I do recommend maybe taking like 15 or 20% of your content and placing it on other places. So if you're producing, let's say you're doing two videos a month and let's say like two songs a month. So that's four pieces of content with two songs and two videos to bring a channel. Take one of those and get it placed on to one of these smaller channels that's in that same space. So just for every lyric eliminate and no jumper and world start, there are 10 channels that post music just like it a lot. There are a lot more women to answer your emails. There are a lot more women to work with post something on there. So then you take one of your videos and you place it there from time to time once a month, once every other month. However, meantime, you can afford to do it and what you will start to see is that the more that you do it, the more familiar that their audience gets with you, the more likely they are. Check out your content and then they start to eventually assume that this channel is covering you because we know like when you dip into marketing, you start to learn a lot of things like paying for places in certain places. Consumers are starting to get a lot smarter about that, but for the most part, they don't know that. So when they see this YouTube channel, he's posting this new song that you drop every other month. They just assume that, oh, this guy must be lit enough that his channel, this channel wants a posting and they go check you out. But yeah, most of them don't don't don't mind what your subscriber count is beginning because they want up-and-comer artists to post on their channel. They just want either like I said, like you paid them upfront, your content to match them. Some will ask you to let them monetize the video. Like some channels have asked you to give up your monetization rights, which sometimes is worth it. Sometimes it's not worth it. Sometimes the exposure is more worth it than just $80 you're going to make from the views that the video is going to get. So just kind of think about those things, but don't let having a low subscriber count kind of like deter you from pitching to big channels. Always look at it like, man, let them, let them tell you know, like if they don't want to do it, they'll let you know they don't want to do it, but don't think that you can't do it just because you only have 100 subscribers or 300 subscribers or something like that. Because their base is a lot more important in that situation anyway. It's about how many subscribers do they have. Alright, so now Corey had a lot of great insights when it comes to getting on bigger YouTube channels and I can tell you that stuff was spot on. But here's some additional things that you can keep in mind, especially when we're talking about marketing your music videos because we know the music video is the best way to really interpret your music, your brand and any other form of lifestyle and expression for your art all at the same time, right? It's the only medium that allows you to do all of those things as an artist and getting connected with one of these guys because Corey mentioned it doesn't have to be these big video channels. It could also be some of these smaller ones that are easy to reach out to. But a big advantage of that is when you do that as they grow, right, they will still be having a relationship with you. You've already been in contact with them and they're more likely to continue to open your emails and everybody starts somewhere. So you kind of got to A&R the situation and say, hmm, who do I think is going to grow? Who has potential to continue to build and become viral themselves because at one point I am Dante only had a smaller YouTube channel, right? Zs had a smaller YouTube channel. Lyrical Lemonade was a smaller YouTube channel at one point. All of these channels were smaller, right? And you have to get connected with them earlier on. That way you can maintain a relationship and still get those emails actually open because I can tell you for a fact, I know people and myself right at who have connected early on with certain channels and people and now no one else will get their email opened by them. They don't need to check their emails barely at least and I can still get in contact with them or people I know can get in contact with other channels just from getting connected earlier. So that's a huge, huge, huge thing. Please keep that in mind is investing long term, but these relationships are everything. Now, number two, when it comes to these channel, there's two types of channels that you can really think about. Okay, all of them kind of want quality to some extent, right? You don't want to just be posting a lot of trash because they just aren't going to get the views. But with that being in mind, a lot of them do say, yo, have you given me a good check? I'm going to go ahead and take that money and they'll post your stuff and some of them have quality stuff and they're still going to filter and it doesn't necessarily say, oh, I'm going to lower my barrier for quality except I'm still going to charge you regardless. And then you have these other channels that they do not take money. They almost get offended if you offer them some money and they just post stuff, right? They post stuff and it's hard to get out to them and they'll answer emails a lot of times, but they have flooded emails. Got to keep that in mind. But if they open your email once they see that your stuff is quality, you're kind of in there and you start to be able to build a relationship by getting multiple posts on that channel and then like Corey said, that starts to come across as this channel is promoting you. They rock with you. So I rock with you as a fan of this channel because those channels, those are the hardest channels to get on. This could be like trap sounds and promoting sounds and things like that. These channels consider themselves to be curators, like true curators. So that's a completely different business model and it's more about the brand versus just how some of these other channels are. I'm trying to finesse and get a check and just trying to build a big following just to build one. Now, here's another tip. A huge thing that people do not realize is just because you post your video on one channel does not mean that you can post it on your own channel. You can do it in either order. Some people might be pickier where they're like, yo, we want the exclusive, we want you to post there first but they're not going to prevent you from posting on your channel later. Like I don't really see that. This isn't with a being with a record label or one of these other distribution companies where people are looking for any type of exclusivity. You can post on multiple channels. So you get that level of promotion on that channel and then you can still get another level of promotion by getting it posted on another channel. I've seen it and it worked for multiple people. Like it's definitely worked because you still got that audience and that fan base. Keep that in mind. It's something that you can do. Don't get too concerned and caught up thinking like, no, now that I put this video on this channel, that's it. Like I have one guy who posted this stuff and got 14, 15K views by posting it through a channel. Later on, he posted it himself and marketed on his page and is doing very well with that as well. As a matter of fact, doing better than that original video at this point. So there's multiple ways that you can go about that. Now another thing, be mindful of how much you're posting on one particular channel and you want to build up some brand there but then also watch and determine if you might have hit a ceiling on that channel. Hey, I've milked this for all I can and maybe it's time to move on to another channel. Don't try to spray and pray and do five different channels at once. Try to say, hey, I'm going to hit this channel, milk this a little bit and maybe now I'm going to milk these two channels at once and then I'm going to move on from them completely and go into another category. That's the strategy to consider because you don't want to just get dry if that channel stops really growing itself. So always keep in mind. Don't just make one decision and stick with it forever. You have to continue to read and see what happens as things continue to play out. And that's it for this episode. Once again, this is inside the network where we show you exclusive clips and artist sessions from InsideBrandManNetwork.com. And of course, obviously we've been talking about moving your videos on YouTube and getting on big channels. But we also have a great YouTube marketing course within Brand Man Network. 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