Why Podcasts Matter for Musicians Podcasts have become a powerful medium for storytelling, marketing and connection. While traditionally unrelated to the music industry, podcasts offer musicians a unique way to reach global audiences, collaborate with influencers and even explore advertising opportunities.  This post delves into how a leading podcast,  The Jordan Harbinger Show , inspired a fresh perspective on music marketing. Do You Like Listening to Podcasts? Yesterday, as I was reading a book titled Traffic Secrets by Russell Brunson , I came across a section on Jordan Harbinger , who's an American podcaster. And so I did a google search on him and found out that his podcast, The Jordan Harbinger Show  has millions of downloads! What Has Podcast Got to Do with Music? Are you wondering why I write about Jordan when my blog is a music blog and not a podcast blog? Well, I was thinking that I might want to buy ads on his show (not now but eventually) since it's so popul...

Monetizing Your YouTube Channel: A Musician’s Journey Starting a YouTube channel can be exciting, but have you considered its potential to become a source of income? What began as an experiment can evolve into a powerful tool for distributing your music and building a thriving career.  This post explores steps for monetizing your channel and expanding your reach through multiple platforms. Monetizing My YouTube Channel When I first started my music video channel on YouTube, it was just a spur of the moment thing, after I watched the speakers on a mastermind class talk about taking imperfect actions.  It didn't even occur to me at that point that I should work towards monetizing my channel. But on hindsight, I think it's a good idea.  Putting My Music on Multiple Platforms? A couple of days ago, I was thinking hard (sort of) about the possibility of putting my music out into the world through multiple platforms. Or should I just keep to one — YouTube? It may be a better id...

Behind the Scenes of My Latest Music Video The release of my latest music video,   Instrumental ~ Untitled ,  is  a significant moment in my creative journey. However, it also brought a challenge: a copyright issue.  In this post, I’ll share updates on the resolution provided by Google, and my perspective on the importance of protecting artistic rights. Update on Violation of My Copyright Today, the Google support team got back to me and said something to the effect that the ads campaign for my latest music video is approved, which means, in effect, they've cleared me of violation of copyright.  But I think that the violator has to be sued in a court of law and be made to pay a fine of up to $10,000 (in SGD) to me. (I read an article in a law-related website or in Singapore's Ministry of Law website, and the writer of the article states something to the effect that a person, if found guilty of violation of copyright, will be liable to pay a fine of up to $1...