If you are a label or a manger, we have given you special features and access to extra data on your artists.
Here are the steps to setup your account:
Step 1: Signup to vyb
After selecting Signup for new account, choose your account type, either label or manager
Step 2. Fill in basic account information
Just like an artist profile, fill in the basic account information. Don’t worry, you can always go back and edit this later if you want to make changes.
Step 3. Invite Artists
Click “+ Add Artist” and then add the artist name and their email.
If your artist is already on vyb, we’ll email them to accept your invitation.
If the artist is not on vyb, we’ll take care of emailing them and inviting them to the platform to complete their profile.
Step 4. Artists accept their invitation.
Your artists will receive an email like this one, inviting them to the platform. If they are an existing vyb artist, then they can simply accept or decline the offer.
If they are not on vyb yet, clicking “Accept” will take them through an onboarding process. They don’t need to complete their profile, they can simply make a start and save it as draft.
Step 5. Monitor Artist signup process in your dashboard
In your dashboard under “My Artists” you can see all the artist you have invited to vyb.
Invite Status: shows if they have accepted or declined your invite. If the status shows “Invited” that means they have yet to take action
Account Status: shows you the status of their profile, either “Draft” or “Completed”. If is says “Completed” this means they have published their account.
Step 6. Add Other artists from your dashboard
From that same dashboard you can add additional artists to the platform. Under the Actions you can delete a connection to an artist if they are no longer affiliated with you.
Once an artist has accepted your invitation, their profile will automatically get a link to your manager/label page
This is how you set your profile and invite artists. As always, email us at help@vyb.co with any questions or suggestions.
GoLives are one of the most important things to use on vyb. GoLives are meant to be quick recordings that engage and excite your fans, content they only get in your vyb account. Regular GoLives keep your fans coming back to your account and let you speak to them directly.
You can be really strategic with your GoLives by choosing the audience. Make some content available for all fans, and make some exclusive to your All-Access. Here are a couple of examples:
You are recording new music, and you want to hype your audience for the upcoming release. Record a short GoLive that only plays the hook of a new song, then announce at the end that if people want to hear more, they need to join your community. Now go record a longer playthrough of the song and make that exclusive to your All-Access members.
You are on the road with a tour, do a quick GoLive backstage, intro some of the other people hanging out there.
Do a rig rundown of the gear you are using for a show or on a recording.
Take one of your popular songs and record an intro describing the songwriting or recording process.
Every Saturday at noon do a GoLive where you play a couple of songs in your rehearsal studio. Let fans in the chat pick the next song you play.
Tipping
Your fans can give you tips during the GoLive, so it can be a fun way to do regular engagements with them without all the setup of a ticketed event.
For further technical information and recommendations, especially if you are using Streaming Hardware or Software, see Video Streaming Technical Details
How to Do a GoLive in 6 Steps.
Here is how to record GoLives and start engaging your fans:
Step 1. Launch GoLive
From the top Launch menu, select GoLive
Step 2. Set the Title and Choose Audience
By default, vyb will use the date to set a title for your GoLive. You should edit this to something more descriptive for your fans.
Now set the Audience. This is who can watch this while you are live as well as well as view the video afterwards.
Not quite sure if you have the catchiest title, don’t stress!! The title and Audience can be edited anytime you want after you’ve recorded your GoLive, even years later
Step 3. Choose Stream Source
The easiest thing to do for stream source is to use your built-in webcam from a laptop or your phone. Don’t turn this into a big hassle, just grab your phone and do a quick video.
If you want to use a more sophisticated multi-camera setup, you can select Streaming Software to use OBS or other popular video software programs.
Under privacy settings, you can choose if the recording is available afterwards. Usually we recommend that you do this, that way you build up your exclusiive content library.
Make your GoLive more interactive by letting fans chat with you during the GoLive.
Step 5. You are Ready to Record!
Now simply press “Start GoLive” and you are recording!
The chat will be on the sidebar, make sure to check that if you’ve let your fans know you are going live at a certain time.
After you are done, the GoLive video will show up in your profile in a few minutes.
Step 6. Generate a Preview
Your video may need a moment or two to show up. Refresh your screen and once it is there, you can generate your preview. If you want to use a frame in your video, then scrub the video to the right position and make note of the timestamp.
In the bottom right, click the Generate Preview select a thumbnail image for a preview
Select an image to act as a thumbnail image for your GoLive
Alternatively, you can change your video timestamp to the right position in your video.
Click the Generate Preview button and then hit “Save:
Fans can now see your GoLive!
Any of your fan community will be notified that you have done a new GoLive.
If you’ve made this GoLive open to all, then any fan can find the video in your profile and watch it.
Make Edits to Your GoLive
To change the title or audience of your GoLive, navigate to My GoLives in your dashboard and select “Edit” from the action menu.
To change the preview image, select “View detail” and then re-generate the preview.
In vyb you can sell your original music directly to your fans. You have complete control over the pricing, timing, and even who can buy the tracks.
Top features include:
Upload as few or as many tracks into an album
Set your pricing, number of sales, and even who can buy them
Add collaborators to your track and vyb will pay them automatically
Set up separate pre-order prices and timing
Sell digital downloads or physical items like vinyl, CDs, and cassettes
Note:
For physical items like vinyl and CDs, you are responsible for all fulfillment, including purchasing, holding inventory, and shipping to the customer. vyb does NOT fulfill physical music items.
For the music tracks, we accept multiple formats: WAV, FLAC, or MP3. We will automatically flag you if the files are not all at the same bit depth or sample frequency. We have a minimum mp3 format of 320 kbps, we will flag if your files are not high enough quality.
Below are the steps to setup and sell music downloads:
Step 1. Launch Create Album
From the main launch homesceen you can either click Launch and select “Create Album”
or else under your Dashboard you can select “My Created Music” on the left and then the “Create Album” button.
Step 2. Add Album Details
In the album details, give your album a name and description and upload the cover and banner images.
Step 3. Set Release Date and Pre-Order (optional)
Edit the release date and time, note that all versions of your album, digital downloads or physical, will share the same release and pre-order dates.
If you set a pre-order date in the future, we will automatically put up a landing page that customers can use to register for notifications for when your album is available for sale.
You can select if this album will be sold to everyone or only your fan community.
Step 4. Set pricing for digital download
Set your pricing for the digital download.
You can limit the number of sales if you want this to be a very unique item, usually you will make this unlimited.
The pricing is always a minimum price, from experience fans will often pay more as a way to show their
As always, you can adjust the discount for your subscribers.
If on the previous screen you set a pre-order date, then you will also set the pricing for your pre-order
You can make a track free for your community as well as exclusive to your Members or All-Access
A few different marketing ideas for your pre-order:
Set the price to be lower to drive some initial sales
You can set the price higher if you have fans who really want to be the first to hear the music
Include as many tracks in the pre-order as you want.
Step 5. Add Physical Formats (Optional)
Click the “+ Physical Format” to add a physical version of your album. You can set that to be Vinyl, CD or Cassette
Give your physical version a unique name and description so that your fans understand their different options.
Set pricing on the release and the pre-order just as you did on the Digital Download.
Note that anyone who purchases a physical format will automatically receive the digital download as well.
NOTE: You are responsible for all fulfillment of physical items.
Step 6. Set Images for Physical Format
For the physical formats, you can add extra images. These images show your fans exactly what they will get. The first image is the featured image for the product.
Step 7. Make Bundles (Optional)
Optionally, you can add a bundle of music and merch by the following steps:
Select +Bundle
Name the bundle and give it a description
By default, every bundle includes the digital download, include one or more music items
Also add mech to the bundle by clicking +Merch
Now set the bundle pricing and availability. You’ll see your total discount to your fans.
Step 8. Upload Tracks
The easiest way to upload all your tracks is to use the bulk upload button. You can bulk upload all tracks at once, in multiple formats. Or you can upload a group of tracks at a time.
For each track, you can give a track name and then select if the track is to be included in the pre-order or not.
You can add collaborators to your project, if you give them a percentage of the music track, then we will automatically track their earnings and pay them when they create a vyb account.
No more tracking splits with different spreadsheets, put the info once into vyb adn you are done.
Keep going until you’ve added all your tracks.
For each format on each track, you will get a color-coded button that tells you the format type and whether it is good. Green with a check indicates this is a good track. Orange with an ‘!’ indicates that this might be the wrong format. Hovering over the track button will tell you the track information. Red with a ‘!’ indicates that it is a bad track.
You can simply click on the track button to replace the file.
Under each button is a little play icon. Clicking that will let you hear the uploaded track.
Step 9. Upload Extras
You can upload extra files that will be available to your fans with your release.
These can be images, videos, text lyric files, etc.
These files can either be ‘Public’, which makes them browsable by those shopping your music, or ‘Purchase’, which makes them only available to those who purchase your music. Your choice!
Step 10. Publish Your Album
Now you are ready to publish your album.
You will notice that two prices are listed for the release and Pre-order. The second price listed in (blue) is the price your All-Access will pay.
Check all the details and if they are correct, push Publish.
On the pre-order date, fans will be able buy the pre-order and listen to any tracks you included in the pre-order. We will automatically send them an email when the full album is released.
The Pre-order is automatically closed either after the release date or if you set a maximum number of pre-orders, then when you have sold all of those.
And that’s it, you’ve posted your album for sale! Now promote it out to all of you fans and start selling!!
The Fan List in vyb gives you useful information about fan interactions on the platform. You will see who has followed or subscribed, purchase history, so much more.
Navigate to My Dashboard, the from the left hand menu select “Marketing Hub/Fan List”
The first tab “Impact” shows you how each email you have sent has performed.
Select “List” to see the list of contacts.
Roles
Contacts can have one of several roles.
All-Access: Community member that pays a monthly fee
Member: Free Community Member
Supporter: Someone who has purchased something from you but not joined your community
Lead: Someone who has been added to your fan list but is not yet on the vyb platform.
Guest: someone you have invited as a Guest to one of your ticketed events
Purchase Total
For each person in your contact list you can see a lifetime total of what they have spent with you.
Purchase History
Click on the action menu next to a name and you can see the action menu. You can select purchase history and this will give you the complete list of purchases by this fan
In this example, the fan has a monthly subscription and has purchased several pieces of merch and event tickets.
Sending emails to your Contacts list
Send an email to any fan or group of fans in your list. Simply select one or more fans and then press the send mail icon.
You can use the filter button to get all subscribers, all followers, etc.
Edit the subject and content of your email. You can change fonts and add pictures and links.
Next, choose your audience. You can send to everyone in your list, your subscribers, contacts, etc. Note that if you select one or more contacts before launching the email editor, they will show up as the audience.
After that, pick a day to schedule your email to be sent.
