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Viral Video- the next wave in Indie Music Promotion.

Recent developments in video sharing technology have transformed simple-to-make music videos into a new and powerful tool for marketing your music.

Sites like YouTube.com and Video.Google.com already attract millions of users and stream tens of millions of videos to the general public each day. Videos are submitted by the the sites' visitors. Viewers can grab copy and paste code and place any video on any webpage on the internet. Millions and millions of videos have been posted all over sites like MySpace, personal blogs, forums and more.

 

 Easy to do!

Plenty of musicians are getting tens of thousands of viewers for their music by creating simple-to-make low tech videos. Simply turn on the camera, pick up your guitar and sing to your hearts content.

Check out this homemade video. You might recognize the tune!

If you click the Share button on the bottom right you'll be taken to this video on the YouTube.com website. There you will find different ways to share the video with other people. Over 22,770 views for this sample video above- all you have to do is put your website address in the title or description of the YouTube.com webpage for this video and you've got free marketing that's easy to do.

 

Music video as a revenue stream

According to InformationWeek.com sites like Revver.com and Eefoof are hoping to beat YouTube at the video game by splitting the money they take in with the people who produce the videos, like the recent Revver hit, "Diet Coke and Mentos Experiment."

You can read the full article here

 

A list of viral video websites

YouTube.com
Video.Google.com
Revver.com
Eefoof.com
Zippyvideos.com
Video.Download.com
UncutVideo.Aol.com
Break.com

And you can bet that due to the success of this type of content there will be many many other sites like these in the near future.

 

MusicSUBMIT can help you climb the video charts!

If you've got a video you can place the embed code in your profile. Your video will be included in all of your submissions to music websites. In turn we give these sites the opportunity to use your video on their website which gives you many more plays and will help you climb the charts starting an upward cycle of viral promotion.

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