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George Karalexis is an entrepreneur & media executive specializing in marketing, business & corporate strategy, organizational structure, & tactical team building. 12+ years of multi-vertical leadership & cross-functional execution in entertainment, advertising, and social impact.

How Short-Form Video Is Changing Music

Bilaterally across consumer and creator, short-form video has fundamentally transformed the way music and audience engage. At baseline, the prevalence of platforms like YouTube Shorts, TikTok, & Instagram Reels have made bite-sized content a powerful medium for musicians to market their music, even informing what artists create and dictating how they engage with fans.

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How Crash Adams Leveraged YouTube Shorts to Supercharge Their Growth

In just 13 months, Crash Adams achieved true cross-platform success, catapulting from 4,000 to 4,000,000 YouTube subscribers, 1.3B monetized views, and 75M+ Spotify streams—among other milestones. In January 2023, the duo garnered the No. 1 spot on Chartmetric’s 6MO H2 2022: Breakthrough 100 list. In other words, their digital footprint saw the biggest growth among all Developing acts within the past year, further highlighting the merits of a true comprehensive (and replicable) marketing strategy.

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From Vanity Metrics to Actionable Insights: Using YouTube Analytics for Effective Marketing

YouTube Analytics is one of the most valuable tools musicians can access for always-on, real-time, & accurately in-depth insights about how their content is being received by their viewers. Those exact insights can, in turn, be used to build an omni-channel marketing strategy. In short, by leveraging the data that YouTube is already providing, musicians can create more effective, 360 (comprehensive) marketing strategies that span across multiple platforms/channels.

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