https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc Understanding Social Medias Effect On The Music Industry. en-us 2017-10-02 11:45:59 UTC 2017-10-02 12:36:30 UTC hello@padlet.com samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192935116 It is clear to see that social media has a big impact on any industry but especially the music one. In 2016 every minute of the day 38,052 was listened to on Spotify this equates to over 20 billion hours this is just on Spotify alone this doesn't include Sound Cloud or YouTube this could potentially be hundreds of billions of views from social media of forms.  ]]> 2017-10-02 11:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192935116 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192939757 Fans are now able to listen to there favourite albums easier than ever for a fraction of the price compared to buying the album in the store and listening to it in there house. Even listening and watching the music video for free. Rather than being stuck to a very small menu of what you can listen to you are now welcome to a all you can eat buffet of music from the past and present. ]]> 2017-10-02 12:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192939757 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192942292 Social Media has given artist more control in how they distribute there music this has allowed artist to by pass the initial industry and post it straight up to Spotify themselves. This also allows more artist to gain themselves a platform with the use of Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram to keep there fans in the loop rather than 12 years ago before twitter was even invented people would not have as much knowledge about smaller artists. ]]> 2017-10-02 12:09:42 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192942292 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192946041 2017-10-02 12:20:03 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192946041 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192947499 This allows you to make events so your fans know when and where you are playing on a social media. ]]> 2017-10-02 12:24:10 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192947499 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192948603 With Twitter you can use hashtags so people can see your tweets with hashtags Uk Music or hashtag Indie depending on your genre twitter is easy to gain followers as well and give you a digital footprint  ]]> 2017-10-02 12:26:38 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192948603 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192950847 This allows you to show behind the scenes content with Instagram live videos that allows you to make the audience feel like you are in there with them and make a connection with the artist.]]> 2017-10-02 12:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192950847 samtcooper12 https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192952155 Snapchat Geo filters can be used for people to see you and who you are just randomly clicking at a location on snap maps this will let people listen to you as people have videoed you when you are playing live and put it on snapchat. ]]> 2017-10-02 12:34:19 UTC https://padlet.com/samtcooper12/xhtw938ue7mc/wish/192952155