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Do you hear that? That’s the sound of digital elves setting up the workshop for Spotify Wrapped season — the shareiest time of year. This global event is a key opportunity for artists to engage with fans, increase streams, and grow their profile. Here’s how to make the most of Spotify Wrapped 2024: Record a […]

This blog post originally appeared on Symphonic’s Blog on Oct. 18, 2024, and was written by Randi Zimmerman. Navigating this complex industry is hard enough as it is for independent artists, but Rise+ was designed to support you through every step of your career. With a focus on flexibility and artist empowerment, this platform helps

In September Rise partnered with our friends at the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM) and the Association of Independent Music (AIM) to sponsor the 2024 B2Beergarden mixer. The mixer brought independent music industry professionals  from the U.S. and the U.K. together at the Reeperbahn Festival. And to help accomplish this A2IM and AIM reached

Are you running, or have recently run a Spotify Exposure Campaign with Rise, and want to better understand the results and how it’s positively impacting your music on Spotify?  We also encourage you to read our detailed explainer of how Rise Exposure campaigns work: https://rise.la/guides/detailed-guide-to-spotify-exposure-campaigns/ But let’s start with what a Spotify Exposure campaign delivers: 

Updated Sept. 2024 A few artists have asked us about Spotify’s “Fans Also Like” section. After reviewing thousands of campaigns, here’s what we’ve found: This section is for discovery, not a measure of success or algorithm impact. It doesn’t affect playlisting or radio. It often benefits artists by placing them on larger artists’ pages. Even

Rise was built to help artists get more out of their marketing budgets. With that in mind, we always are looking to share what we’ve learned with artists so they can put themselves in the best position to succeed. In this article we’re going to discuss best practices we’ve learned after running a high volume

At Rise we like to share helpful resources and emerging tools created to help independent artists, labels, and distributors alike with their day-to-day operations. Today we’re excited to introduce you to Boombox. And, below, we’re sharing some tips and best practices to effectively manage your music assets with Boombox. In the dynamic world of music

Hey, welcome to Rise’s first Mailbag Q&A. We got a lot of great, and frequent questions, so we wanted to put them all in one place. Because if there’s one thing we learned in school, more people have question than ask them. So let’s jump right in! From Alex B: Thanks for this, it’s appreciated.

Connecting your Facebook Business page to a third-party Meta Ads Manager can be a tedious task. But it’s an essential piece to running successful digital marketing campaigns, and ensuring your advertising investments are optimized. Why it’s important from a business standpoint Having this set up properly will enable future partnerships and collaborations to go smoothly,

For the past five years — and across thousands upon thousands of campaigns ran for major labels, agencies and countless artists worldwide — Rise has learned a thing or two about digital marketing. So, we’ve decided put together a comprehensive lists of “Best Practices” for you. Let’s start with our bread and butter — Spotify.