Music Videos: Band Promotion & Marketing

Video Transcript

"Another great way to advertise and promote your bands and its new music is through music videos. Music videos are videos of your band playing music. Music videos can be a compilation of live shows, tour bus footage or band rehearsals. There are lots of places that you can do these videos. You can place them on MySpace pages and on personal web pages. You can hire professionals to do low-cost, but professional, music videos. Or you can do them yourself and place them on places such as YouTube. YouTube is a new website which let's anyone post up videos. Let's check it out. Here's a music video on YouTube someone posted about their band. Unfortunately, there is music now. There are other places that you can post music videos as well, besides YouTube. Another website is on MTV. These are for larger scale bands. Here's an example of a music video. You can tell the difference between homemade music videos and professionally-made music videos."