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Spotify and Apple get most of the attention, but Amazon Music and Deezer both run free artist dashboards. This guide sets out what each says it offers, based on their own pages read on 24 Oct 2026, and where we think each is worth an hour of your time.
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Social profiles and link-in-bio pages are rented space; a website on your own domain is the one address you control. This guide covers what an artist site actually needs (five pages, not fifty), how search engines find it, and why the domain matters more than the design. Sources: ICANN, Google Search Central and Search Engine Land, read on 24 Oct 2026.
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A music video does not need a crew or a big budget. This guide covers picking one idea you can afford, shooting on a phone, lighting with what you have, syncing to playback, editing in free software and cutting one shoot into a widescreen video, vertical clips and a Spotify Canvas. Platform specs are from YouTube and Spotify help pages, read on 25 Oct 2026.
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TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have each published how their recommendation systems work. Here is what those explainers actually say, and a simple weekly plan built around them that leaves time for making music.
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An email list is the one fan channel you control, but it comes with rules. Here are the consent basics under the EU GDPR, the UK PECR and the US CAN-SPAM Act, what is worth sending, and the categories of tools that can do the sending.
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One email a week: the music-tech and AI-in-music news that mattered, and what we think about it.