Introduction
The aim of professional development in the creative industries assignment is to develop knowledge of current structures, practices within the creative industries and the ability to apply this to an own professional development plan.
During the progress of this assignment it will be explained how to release a piece of music effectively on digital formats. Consider the following ways of seeding the music into markets, communities’ free content versus the cost of marketing pay walled content.
• Major record labels
The Major record labels are the greatest way to produce and release a record. One of the reasons is because the major record label it is a positive fact in music industry, the major record labels has a huge financial advantage, good connections and they have many artist signed on their record label, therefore the artists will be well know and successful commercial artist in the music business.
E.g. of major record labels: Sonic Music Entertainment, EMI Group, Warner Music
Group, and Universal Music Group
Pros and Cons for Major record labels.
• Pros
Income
Major labels have a huge financial advantage over just about every indie label. When a label has a good financial state it means they will be able to spend decent money promoting the artist record. It also means they may be able to offer a large advance and
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Marketing your product. I needed to understand the social media marketing process therefore I will be able to managed my music businesses well, many people think that marketing means advertising, website or a logo, is much more than that. Marketing is the processes by which acquire retain customers. Marketing involves reaching out to introduce your product to interested prospects informing those prospects about your product and differentiating your self from the competition. The aim of marketing is to know your customers well, therefore you will communicate the benefit of your product well that the product sale it