I guess I can say this now, since I'm done.

I ran a successful YouTube music promotion channel for five years.

Here's my advice for artists.

If you're just starting to produce, don't send your music to anyone.

All that effort you spend crafting mailing lists and emails, is wasted, because we won't upload bad music, you probably won't even get a reply.

Maybe from the very small channels, but that's not actually promoting you anyway.

Put that effort into *making more music*, put it into getting better.

And I mean like the first two or so years, do this.

If your music is good, channels will just steal it and upload it anyway, without your permission.

I don't know about everyone else, but I can't imagine it's any less true

I listened to about 11 seconds of any given song emailed to me, so don't waste that shit on intro, or cassette deck noises, or drumlines without anything interesting going on

Remix competitions: You don't have permission to use that shit unless you win, and sometimes not even then. Don't send it.

if you are going to spam 400 promo channels, use blind carbon copy, I don't need to get reply-all'd by every fucking EDM channel on the planet.

idk that's it for now, might revisit this topic