As a companion to this past week's South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival in Austin, YouTube has launched a program called Musicians Wanted to aid undiscovered musicians. The program, which at the moment is only working with US bands, is accepting applications from bands to have their (original) music become accesible to a larger audience. Through the YouTube channel, the bands will be allowed to collect revenue from advertisements the play on the screen as viewers are watching their clips.
YouTube is certainly one of the fastest and easiest ways to get a message out there, and it has already launched the careers of several other artists like Ok Go and Justin Beiber. The venture will surely be successful for both YouTube and the artists involved.
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That is kind of great. It's nice to see opportunities to see people get heard and actually make some money for their efforts. Another great part about music festivals (maybe not as mainstream as SXSW) but bands can look up festivals to play at even around our local area. YouTube is awesome because people watch it everyday. I'm looking forward to see who makes it.
ReplyDeleteI think music festivals are great, they are a great way for undiscovered artists to be discovered!
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