Buying Facebook-Likes / Paying Facebook for Advertisement (Video)
a few days ago someone was asking about buying followers on soundcloud or facebook-likes.
the following video explains really good how it works and how much damage it does to you network and your outreach.
Kinda funny, I’ve gotten probably ten followers or so on soundcloud over the last two or three days, (I guess it started after posting a deep house mix?) which is a big number for me in that timespan, all with minimal followers, and almost all reposting the same songs: Slow Down by Showtek, Summertime Sadness, and No Good by Fedde LeGrand and Sultan.
I don’t know what I did to prompt this, but I’m going to assume these are bot followers for some reason and they’ll likely slip away in the future.
Thanks for sharing this! Kind of strange I just registered a page for my musical activity today after having left Facebook for private use last year.
I’ve actually had tons of bots like and unlike my FB page. They seem to come and go, most of the profiles have been based out of the India region. It seems to also happen a lot with Instagram & Twitter.
Very interesting viewing. As someone who occasionally promotes the odd post here and there, that was an eye opener.
yea, dont pay for promoting your page, just promote posts…
that way it dont damage your page as much and, you will get a good amount of actual people to listen to your stuff.
I mean its a f ed up game out here, some blogs are even making you pay to post your stuff, while they post the big artist stuff for free.
Same thing for contests “you have to have x amount of listens to be considered for this contest” like where you gonna get these listens?
Ha, I just posted this same video in the off topic forum. Yeah promoting posts sounds like the way to go, still kinda seems like a racket to me though. “Pay us to show your content to your fans”
What I’ve always wondered is wether of not the companies can figure out whether or not you have paid for the playes on your mix or whatever? It’s easy to buy your entrance for a competition that way…
It’s really obvious most of the time…
Yeah I think it’s obvious too, especially for a local comp where everyone knows how many fans the DJs really have. The bigger question is whether the promoters hosting the competition care…
I read an article about a guy who pays for SC likes and he makes really bad tracks, but cos of his SC activity when he releases a track it gets straight to the front page of BP and people buy it and he does rather well off the whole thing. Interesting read.
If its the same article I read that scam was even more scheming, where he was paying for people to buy a few hundred copies of his track to push his singles into the Beatport top 50 where he would gain exposure.
And I saw the freelancer.com profile as well stating the same.
Good con though, exposure is 9/10 of promotion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpVyGaHM6rE)
And boom goes the dynamite: http://valleywag.gawker.com/facebook-is-about-to-make-everyone-pay-1547309811
It’ll be pretty crazy if this ends up being legit.
Not just music blogs and websites to be fair. I read an article recently by the British Journalist Nick Cohen who was asked by the huge website Mumsnet to write something for them and was them told he would be expected to pay for the privilege. Needless to say, he told them where to go.
It’s the way of the world. And it’s scummy.