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so there’s been a round of marketers messaging me on Instagram. Nothing out of the ordinary for independent artists, right? This guy has been messaging me and at first they started out as text base messages then he just straight up started sending voice notes. He sent me this breakdown and is always the first thing that sets off a red flag. Other than being someone messaging me on Instagram is the fact that for $100 I can get in the ballpark of 10,000 streams. The pricing scales upward as you would expect. My question to the community is, are scammers evolving by sending voice notes because I low-key feel like either it’s just a more intimate way of trying to finesse, that or someone’s using AI to change the voice to sound like a white guy. Anyone else encounter tactics like this recently?

We did an interview with Justin Phillips about how he sold over $10M in mech. Every artist should have merch and this is a clinic on how you can do the same for yourself https://youtu.be/DpohoLP_CfI

what's the best way to go about sync licensing? I have plenty of songs I feel like would be great for shows or movies and I've been hearing this is a great way to start seeing real money of your music. Part of me just wants to keep dropping and once I get that notoriety it'll be a lot easier but I also feel like I've been dropping to the same/slightly bigger crowds. Kind of feel like I should push my old product hard than once I see real traction of that I can hit em with the new shit. Any advice? Preciate it in advance

yo, how y`all deal with self-doubt, depression, as creatives? Recently been feeling numb, and kinda disconnected with this world.