S4.8/E66: Your Live Strategy & Efficient Touring w/ Christine Osazuwa
May 27, 2024
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Featuring Christine Osazuwa, this podcast delves into live strategy for musicians, efficient touring, and career insights. Topics include acquiring fan data, negotiation tips, diversity in the music industry, data analytics, and navigating rejection.
Effective live shows enhance local draw, enabling leverage for support slots and metrics-based touring.
Utilizing Set.Live simplifies fan data collection during tours and bolsters fan engagement.
Key Change programs aim to support women and gender minorities in the music industry through workshops and empowerment initiatives.
Deep dives
Gaining Key Fan Info with Set .Live Tech Solution
Artists and their teams face challenges in collecting key fan information crucial for a sustainable music career. Implementing Set .Live, a free tech solution, simplifies the process by enabling artists to gather contact details during tours, enhancing fan engagement.
Mastering Live Strategy and Efficient Touring
When planning live shows, rehearsals and meticulous planning are key to successful album release shows. Coordinating with venues, negotiating deals, and effective promotion using email lists, text messaging, and smart social media announcements play vital roles in achieving tour success.
Empowering Artists for Lasting Music Careers
Key Change and similar programs focus on supporting women and gender minorities in the music industry. By providing workshops, grants, networking opportunities, and empowerment, these initiatives aim to address career progression challenges and foster inclusivity.
Transitioning from Music Promotion to Digital Strategy
From working in music promotions to digital strategy consultancy in Sweden, the journey involved mastering technical skills such as web development, coding, data science, and an educational background in business administration and data science. Boldly moving to Europe, leveraging expertise in tech, secured diverse professional opportunities.
Professional Journey and Role at Universal Music Group
Christine details her professional journey from working in Stockholm to landing a role at Universal Music Group in marketing and commercial departments. She discusses her approach to analytics and data analysis, emphasizing the importance of understanding streaming data, artist growth, and market trends. Christine also shares insights on discovering unique patterns within data, such as correlating lower streams with audience demographics like new parents.
Diversity Advocacy and Community Engagement in Music Industry
Christine's involvement in promoting diversity and inclusion is highlighted through her roles at various organizations, including Warner Music Group and She Said So. She emphasizes the significance of supporting underrepresented groups, providing mentorship, and creating opportunities for marginalized individuals in the music industry. By focusing on allyship and empowerment, Christine sheds light on the importance of diversity in leadership roles and the impact of inclusive practices on industry growth and community engagement.
Now it's time to start playing live as effectively as possible. This starts with putting together your strongest live show possible. As well as doing so in a manner that increases your local draw allowing you to leverage your headlining "hard ticket" count into support slots, metrics based touring & more. Host Emily White gives an overview on how to do exactly that while interviewing live industry veteren leader Christine Osazuwa! Happy listening & viewing.
Special thanks to our sponsor Set.Live. Set.Live is a FREE app-less tech solution that artists can take on tour to grab contact info from fans coming out each and every night. Artists can build custom experiences for fans on tour and in exchange get full names, phone numbers, email addresses and more. To learn more visit signup.set.live.
Massive thanks to TheWRD from the Ivors Academy for making this tour & season happen! Supercharge your knowledge and career in the music business and in the live environment with 14 day kickstarters, 12 week bootcamps and a fully validated diploma. All Online. Maximum Flexibility. Maximum Impact." Get more info at TheWRD.uk.