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growth vs development

“Growth” is defined as an increase in size or quantity; as in a larger fanbase, or more streams.

“Development” is defined as an improvement in skills or abilities.

And one more definition: “Marketing” is the activity of a business promoting its products or services. In the music space, that can be everything from paid ads, to organic content, to playing shows, to selling merch.

Where our Growth Marketing campaigns deliver results, our unique Development Marketing campaign helps you develop skills and abilities that will positively and massively impact the success of your marketing (ads, content, shows, merch, etc).

Here’s how we help:

  • What’s your plan?

    You can spend $5,000 making a new music video, and $5,000 marketing it, but do you have a plan beyond that?

    Do you have a timeline?

    Everything starts with the strategy and the goal.

    The first part of what we do within a Development Marketing campaign is help you plan out your strategy for the year, the next 6 months, and the next 6 weeks.

    As part of that, we also offer a lot of general music industry guidance and education.

    WHAT WE DO / HELP WITH:
    ✅ Planning short, medium, & long-term goals
    ✅ Release plan creation / optimization
    ✅ Social media best practices
    ✅ Branding review / optimization
    ✅ Fan development (see "MARKETING" section)
    ✅ General music industry education
    ✅ Consultation calls*

    WHAT WE DON'T DO:
    🚫 Take 15% of your gross revenue
    🚫 Pitch to labels
    🚫 Pitch to managers
    🚫 Pitch to tours
    🚫 Pay for anything on your behalf

    ...but we'll teach you about how and when to do those things.

    *We always try to have at least monthly calls with our Development Marketing clients. We can’t guarantee that frequency, but we are always available to answer questions via email!

  • Standout Agency first started solely as a music marketing agency.

    The more we worked with artists, the more we figured out that we had to do more.

    We are artists ourslves, and if we saw that a band was ready to invest $900 into marketing, but didn't have a good release plan... well, we couldn't just NOT help fix it.

    We're here for artists, so we won't allow your hard-earned money to get wasted.

    That's what led to the creation of Development Marketing campaigns.

    The best part for you?

    It's 100% FREE (minus your ad spend) & 100% DONE FOR YOU.

    TYPES OF CAMPAIGNS WE CAN RUN:

    • FANBASE (SOCIAL) MARKETING
      Growing your social media pages via paid and organic marketing. We place a heavy focus on Instagram.

    • MUSIC (SPOTIFY, APPLE, ETC) MARKETING
      Growing your fanbase and numbers on Spotify, Apple Music, and more. Mostly a focus on paid marketing.

    • VIDEO (YOUTUBE) MARKETING
      Best practices for YouTube channel growth via paid and organic marketing techniques.

    • EVENT (TOUR/SHOW) MARKETING
      How to promote your upcoming shows, generate more awareness and hype, and sell more tickets.

    • PRODUCT (MERCH) MARKETING
      How to sell more merch (when you're ready).

    • EMAIL MARKETING
      Arguably the most important aspect of growing and developing a fanbase, we'll show you how to set it up and keep it growing.

    This includes Growth Marketing style campaigns + adds in the option for any other kind of campaign. There are no additional agency fees! All you pay for is the ad spend.

  • To ensure the success of the releases we work with, all Development Marketing clients with new releases are required to release through the new distribution arm of our company: FPMG Distribution.

    FPMG uses the exact same distribution channel we use for our own label that consistently lands editorial playlists, and has helped grow multiple artists from 10k to 100k+ monthly listeners.

    In fact, we created FPMG specifically to offer label-level power to our marketing clients.

    WHAT'S INCLUDED / WHAT WE DO:
    ✅ Hands-off release set up (we do it for you!)
    ✅ Access to Spotify's Discovery Mode
    ✅ Priority Pitching to Editorial Playlists*
    ✅ Playlist pitch in Spotify for Artists done for you
    ✅ Artist dashboard for analytics
    ✅ Easy writer splits & payouts
    ✅ Monthly payouts
    ✅ Music delivered to over 200 streaming services worldwide.

    WHAT WE DON'T DO:
    🚫 Pay for anything on your behalf
    🚫 Advance you any budgets
    🚫 Own your masters forever


    How is this different from Distrokid (or similar option)?

    To put it simply, it's different because we care.

    Companies like Distrokid or Tunecore have no approval process for the music coming in. If an artist pays, they can set up their music and release it.

    Other than offering new ways to take some of your money through "features" or "add-ons" they are hands off. Your success is up to you.

    And, because there is no barrier to entry, what little support staff they do have is often overwhelmed (and therefore slow to respond).

    With us, you first have to be approved for a Development Marketing campaign. That's the barrier to entry.

    All of the "add-ons" and extra features that cost you more on other platforms are INCLUDED FOR FREE with us (if you even need them - usually you don't).

    We set up your release ourselves, automatically minimizing the chances for mistakes or issues.

    If there is somehow still an issue, you don’t have to search through pages of FAQs, or chat with an AI bot. We’re just an email away! (And if it's a problem beyond us, we have a direct contact - her name is Kelsey - who can help). She's never taken more than a day to respond.

    We call this “label-style” because we are more than just a middleman; we are invested in your success.

    *Placement on Editorial playlists is not guaranteed.

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ARTISTS WE’VE WORKED WITH

FAQ

  • The full program cost is $200/mo + 10% of digital streaming royalties generated from any songs released through FPMG during the term of the campaign.

    Our marketing service alone costs at least $150/mo... and it's included in this program.

    Add in the cost for consultations (to cover the other services included), and you would be looking at well over $1,000/mo to get everything separately.

    Or, you can save 80% and get it all for just $200/mo.

  • The initial term is for 12 months. After the initial term we will assess where things are together and decide the next steps based on what's best for YOU.

    Though it's not guaranteed, several former Development Marketing artists have been signed to our label, or have moved on to other labels.

  • Monthly @ $200/mo

    Single Pay @ $2,000 (two months free)

  • We guarantee that you will see growth within the first 30 days of a new release, or we will cancel the program and refund your first month's fee.

  • Yes, with two parts.

    (1) A basic scope of services agreement for a Development Marketing Campaign. It outlines the service, and gives you our guarantee (mentioned above).

    (2) An agreement for distribution through FPMG which outlines the distribution fee (10%), and the term (12 months).

  • No. We included distribution to ensure that we have direct access to help the artists we work with via every avenue possible.

    If you are currently signed to an exclusive deal with another distributor, or signed to an exclusive recording contract with a label, we’d love to work with you on a Growth Marketing Campaign!

  • FPMG Distribution is a boutique label-level distribution company created out of partnership between Theoria Records and Symphonic Distribution.

    It is a part of the Theoria Group network of entertainment companies, along with this agency and Theoria Records.

    FPMG does exist as its own entity, and offers music distribution without any additional marketing services. Click here to learn more.

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