Friday, 10 May 2013

Research into competitors


Research into competitors

The music industry is an incredibly competitive industry to break into and there are many different people working on similar projects. The only way too truly make you’re mark and earn you’re place amongst professionals is too come up with something original, you’re own addition to an already established, crowded and competitive industry.

Each one of the brands listed below has their own individual styles, layouts, formats and different strategies for appealing to their target audiences.

I have analysed each brand and have decided which aspects of each I am going to apply to my project e.g. layouts, colour schemes and typography



-          “Majestic Casual” is a Youtube channel that promotes electronic, garage and house music. I really like what they do and feel that I can learn from some of their examples.

-          Every video that they post has a photo shopped image that links really well to the soundtrack.

-          I really like the way that they have successfully linked the audio and visuals, with a clever bits of Photoshop and some carefully chosen imagery.

-          The main thing that I have learned from “Majestic Casual” Is that it’s important to have relevant and appealing imagery , because even though the music is the main feature it’s nice to have something visual to associate with it.



-          “Dispatch recordings” is a record label that specialises in drum and bass, electronic and break beat music.

-          A lot of their music is very similar to the material that I am currently promoting but they are a more established brand and have been selling records for years.

-           “Dispatch Recordings” is a strong example for me to base some of my work on and they will be an important point of reference throughout my project because if I get stuck somewhere I can just take a look at how a professional company handles similar problems.




-          “Mau5trap” is a record label owned by an incredibly successful house, electronic, techno producer/DJ called deadmau5, he has made millions of pounds from his music as has built a reputation as one of the best live DJ’s in the world.

-          Here is a video of him doing a set for Nokia using the worlds most advanced projection software.



-          Ultra music is the biggest record label selling house music in the world and they have a highly paid team of professionals running their project so Il be able to pinch , manipulate and tweak a few of their ideas and apply them to my project.

-          One day I hope that my brand can reach this level , but I appreciate the fact that this is a highly funded , highly successful company that has been established for a long period of time.




-          UKF Music started off as a Youtube Channel promoting bass, dubstep and electronic music for the masses without making any money. Then one day they made so much money from advertisers, promotion, CD’s and Events that they became an official record label.

-          This proves that you can start small with low costs and still make it big. if you know what you’re doing.


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