The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #119270   Message #2586090
Posted By: M.Ted
10-Mar-09 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: folk reviews ,are they necessary
Subject: RE: folk reviews ,are they necessary
Sorry, Anne, you are totally wrong about YouTube. YouTube is a much more effective way to get your music exposure than any folk publication, even more effective than "The Guardian"--and people disseminate and access it through embeds in the various social networking media, as well as through YouTube's own messaging system, it is possible to get music on line and get people listening to it incredibly quickly.

Youtube is the tenth or eleventh most accessed search, and a very high percentage of the viewers are 20 or younger. Bottom line is, had you been on YouTube, and had you known how to network, the fifteen year olds would have known about you--

Here's a Wall Street Journal Article, it is either amazing or frightening--WSJ Article on YouTube