Tools: Vertigo Music
January 26, 2022
If you’ve read our Sandbox Best Music Marketing Campaigns of 2021 report, you’ll know that listening parties were a big deal in 2021! It makes a lot of sense: they drive up excitement during release week, allow artists...
Behind The Campaign: Super-Hi & Neeka
January 26, 2022
‘Following The Sun’ was the result of members of two different acts, who also happened to be siblings, being in the same house during lockdown in 2020. Just like the track arising from the merging of two acts, the label...
Sandbox Campaigns of the Year: 2021’s best music marketing campaigns
December 15, 2021
It’s back: and in 2021, our hotly-anticipated Sandbox Campaigns of the Year issue is the biggest ever. This year we had a landslide of submissions – also the most ever – and the task of narrowing the field down...
Tools :: Tunespeak
December 1, 2021
We last wrote about musician-to-fan loyalty platform Tunespeak in 2018, as part of our essential marketing tools kit of the year feature. Jessica Savage, then director of digital strategy and marketing at Kobalt, called it...
Behind The Campaign :: Little Simz
December 1, 2021
The team from AWAL explain how they moved to reintroduce Little Simz, why her videos were treated like movie premieres, how she increased her social media activity (notably on TikTok), why D2C proved to be central to the...
Behind the Campaign :: Jorja Smith
November 17, 2021
British R&B singer Jorja Smith released her debut album, Lost & Found, in 2018 and as a “holding pattern” release between it and her second album proper she released the eight-track Be Right Back in May 2021....
Tools: Band Theme
November 17, 2021
Even in the age of TikTok, Fortnite, and VR fitness, artists need websites, for essential purposes, like owning the relationship with their fans, or promoting current activities – or simply for SEO purposes. But user-friendly...
To NFT or ‘knot to NFT? Metal band get cryptically non-fungible Cryptic teaser campaigns, hidden audio snippets and NFTs are all common components in music marketing today – but metal band Slipknot have decided to roll...
The Sandbox Guide To… Snapchat
November 4, 2021
Have you forgotten about Snapchat? Or at least, have you focussed your marketing attention on other short-form video platforms? We think it’s time to take another look. If you’ve put your Snapchat strategy on the back...
Tools :: Amazon Music for Artists – Release Pitch Tool & Spotlight
November 3, 2021
Since launching their Amazon Music for Artists backend in March 2020, Amazon Music has continued to add new features within the app, and the Spotlight feature or their Twitch integration are useful ways for artists to grow...
Behind The Campaign :: Death Row 30
November 3, 2021
Death Row Records was founded in 1991 and released landmark hip-hop albums by acts such as Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg and Tupac as well as the hugely successful Above The Rim soundtrack. Its success was matched with the...
Halsey-on days: singer creates QR AR treasure hunt in an “immersive installation” Which ‘R’ is better? QR? AR? VR? Music marketers increasingly have all of them in their box of tricks to pull out when the...
