You can now 'sponsor' the Andertons Youtube channel...apparently. EDIT - Now retracted for Patreon..

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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 26453
    Jack_ said:

    Freebird said:
    rsvmark said:
    - paying guests (might come as a shock to know that Steve Vai, John Petrucci et al don't do this sort of thing for free)...etc etc.
    Ooooo now that is interesting. Any ideas what the rate is? Unless of course they have an album/tour/product to plug and then it would be less/foc?
    Aren't these guys paid by the guitar manufacturers to promote their products?

    Ahhhh...so it's not that musicians should do it for free in return for the exposure, they should do it for free in return for their endorsers' exposure? Got it.

    Why don't you give Steve a call and book him for an event, then tell him he's doing it for free on that basis? Let us know what he says.
    I'm pretty sure he's suggesting that they're paid by their endorser to do these videos, not just endorsing their endorser for free.

    Not sure about the Vai one, but the Petrucci one was very Musicman heavy, as were Nick Johnston and Keith Merrow with Schecter; do these guys not get paid by their endorsers for doing this?
    Genuinely curious - have you ever read an endorsement agreement?

    All the ones I've seen put a responsibility on the endorsee to promote the endorser's products at every relevant opportunity, and that's a base requirement for the rest of the agreement. Manufacturer-specific clinics and the like will usually be paid appearances, but not interviews and such.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited June 2018
    Jack_ said:
    I'm pretty sure he's suggesting that they're paid by their endorser to do these videos, not just endorsing their endorser for free.
    Yeah, I assumed Vai was getting paid by Ibanez to promote Ibanez guitars, a clue being the row of Ibanez guitars lined up behind him.

    Anyway, regarding the sponsoring issue, I feel Andertons are straying out of their lane here. I'd be more inclined to look at the 85% of the market that they currently cannot monetize by looking into promotion/distribution/licensing/partnership deals in the US/Europe, etc..

    The long term goal should be structuring the business so that they are able to compete against the likes of Thomann,  Musikhaus and Music Store, not tapping up YouTube viewers for their loose change. It all seems a bit bizarre to me, if not a little egotistical.
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  • Jack_Jack_ Frets: 3175
    Jack_ said:

    Freebird said:
    rsvmark said:
    - paying guests (might come as a shock to know that Steve Vai, John Petrucci et al don't do this sort of thing for free)...etc etc.
    Ooooo now that is interesting. Any ideas what the rate is? Unless of course they have an album/tour/product to plug and then it would be less/foc?
    Aren't these guys paid by the guitar manufacturers to promote their products?

    Ahhhh...so it's not that musicians should do it for free in return for the exposure, they should do it for free in return for their endorsers' exposure? Got it.

    Why don't you give Steve a call and book him for an event, then tell him he's doing it for free on that basis? Let us know what he says.
    I'm pretty sure he's suggesting that they're paid by their endorser to do these videos, not just endorsing their endorser for free.

    Not sure about the Vai one, but the Petrucci one was very Musicman heavy, as were Nick Johnston and Keith Merrow with Schecter; do these guys not get paid by their endorsers for doing this?
    Genuinely curious - have you ever read an endorsement agreement?

    All the ones I've seen put a responsibility on the endorsee to promote the endorser's products at every relevant opportunity, and that's a base requirement for the rest of the agreement. Manufacturer-specific clinics and the like will usually be paid appearances, but not interviews and such.
    No I haven't, but similarly have you ever read one for one of the big boys like Satch or Vai? I was under the illusion manufacturers actually compete to have them on their roster and not vice-versa, so paying them for all appearances wouldn't surprise me...

    Plus Andertons often tie these interviews into masterclass events they hold, so the agreement for paying an artist for one of those events will probably entail an interview as well.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    Freebird said:
    Why would they need to keep a soundproof room away from the noise of the warehouse and the shop? 
    Because the shop and the warehouse kick out more noise than they can keep out at reasonable cost, self-evidently.
    So if it's all about cost, maybe they could branch out into doing cookery programmes for TV. That should cover the cost of the equipment and premises. Or maybe they have bitten off more than they can chew, and they need to scale back a bit?
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  • guitars4youguitars4you Frets: 14030
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    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 26453
    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
    So it's not free? Damn you and your inconvenient facts.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited June 2018
    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
    So it's not free? Damn you and your inconvenient facts.
    It makes no sense for Andertons to be paying Steve Vai loads of money to do a YouTube video that makes no money, and is mostly watch by people who can't buy anything from them. They could just contact Ibanez and say they are willing to plug Ibanez Guitars globally on YouTube for £X amount, with Chappers supplying the licks and Lee providing the banter.

    PS Andertons Vai video currently has 352,591 views.
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  • Jack_Jack_ Frets: 3175
    edited June 2018
    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
    Did they ask for donations to cover the cost of Vai promotion?

    Or did they pay him his fee based on the fact that they calculated that overall he added more value overall than his fee?
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  • JasonJason Frets: 1103
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    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
    Steve Vai was around £20K appearance fee, but its more than that, usually its flights, 5 star hotel, limo etc, Nile Rogers was £25K + etc, I'm told Nita Strauss is £10K + etc.

    One thing you have to bear in mind is that, whilst Steve Vai maybe an Ibanez endorsee, Ibanez is distributed in the UK by Headstock Distribution, therefore they don't have any real deal with him, Ibanez Japan may send him over to do something, but unless it comes from HQ its a deal between Steve Vai and whoever wants his time.

    You find some golden ones out there that don't charge, but they are few and far between. Have you ever looked at how much first class flights are from Los Angeles (that is pretty much where they all live) and London?

    Its about £6K, no cheapo hotels (approx £400 a night, plus food) and a driver

    Hope that helps
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 26453
    Freebird said:
    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
    So it's not free? Damn you and your inconvenient facts.
    It makes no sense for Andertons to be paying Steve Vai loads of money to do YouTube video that makes no money, when they could just contact Ibanez and say they will plug Ibanez Guitars globally on YouTube for £X amount, with Chappers supplying the licks and Lee providing the banter.
    Who said that such videos make no money? You're making assumptions again.

    If you watch the videos where he talks about it, Lee says quite clearly that the YouTube channel isn't there to make money, but to foster a community (much like we've done here, except he's been orders of magnitude more successful at it). This whole thing basically says to me that he's decided that he's tired of it being a loss-leader and wants it to break even - much as we decided fairly early on. We asked for donations from our members (the people who are invested in the service that we provide); that's no different to what he's doing here, in asking his subscribers (coincidentally, the people who are invested in the service he provides).

    I find it vaguely amusing that most people on this thread seem to think that they know more about the music business and YouTube channels than he does, when the entire industry (ie the businesses) look to him for guidance on how to build a successful channel (in terms of popularity and coverage) to accompany their businesses and take them into the modern online world, and not this forum.

    And yet...everyone here thinks they're an expert on his business, his costs, how he should be running his channel and even how much it costs to get celebrities on it.

    You guys don't half make me fucking laugh sometimes...
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    Jason said:
    Have you ever looked at how much first class flights are from Los Angeles (that is pretty much where they all live) and London? 

    Its about £6K, no cheapo hotels (approx £400 a night, plus food) and a driver

    Hope that helps
    Vai was here in the UK on tour. Haven't watched the video, was he promoting his concerts? That could have been a good barter  :)
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24578
    If I’ve learned one thing since starting my own business over 10 years ago it’s this:

    It is far far easier and much less effort to criticise someone else and their business model than it is to develop and run your own. 
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  • JasonJason Frets: 1103
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    Freebird said:
    Jason said:
    Have you ever looked at how much first class flights are from Los Angeles (that is pretty much where they all live) and London? 

    Its about £6K, no cheapo hotels (approx £400 a night, plus food) and a driver

    Hope that helps
    Vai was here in the UK on tour. Haven't watched the video, was he promoting his concerts? That could have been a good barter  :)
    Its likely that it was just a fee for a couple of hours, I'm not a Vai fan so I haven't been taking any notice of a UK tour or an Anderton's youtube promo.
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  • Jack_Jack_ Frets: 3175
    Freebird said:
    On the Steve Vai 'promotion' front - I recall the last big Guitar Show at Olympia, around 10 years ago, when Steve Vai was booked to make an appearance and run a master class - can't recall how much the masterclass was, but limited to say a 100 paying customers - Approx 60/90 mins lecture and around £100  (or more) for you to pay -  @Jason might recall the actual cost of this, but Steve Vai charged the show organisers around 20K - Apart from him playing an Ibanez JEM at the masterclass, there was no tie in whatsoever with Ibanez on this as a co-sponsor 
    So it's not free? Damn you and your inconvenient facts.
    It makes no sense for Andertons to be paying Steve Vai loads of money to do YouTube video that makes no money, when they could just contact Ibanez and say they will plug Ibanez Guitars globally on YouTube for £X amount, with Chappers supplying the licks and Lee providing the banter.
    Who said that such videos make no money? You're making assumptions again.

    If you watch the videos where he talks about it, Lee says quite clearly that the YouTube channel isn't there to make money, but to foster a community (much like we've done here, except he's been orders of magnitude more successful at it). This whole thing basically says to me that he's decided that he's tired of it being a loss-leader and wants it to break even - much as we decided fairly early on. We asked for donations from our members (the people who are invested in the service that we provide); that's no different to what he's doing here, in asking his subscribers (coincidentally, the people who are invested in the service he provides).

    I find it vaguely amusing that most people on this thread seem to think that they know more about the music business and YouTube channels than he does, when the entire industry (ie the businesses) look to him for guidance on how to build a successful channel (in terms of popularity and coverage) to accompany their businesses and take them into the modern online world, and not this forum.

    And yet...everyone here thinks they're an expert on his business, his costs, how he should be running his channel and even how much it costs to get celebrities on it.

    You guys don't half make me fucking laugh sometimes...
    No one is suggesting that what he's doing is questionable from a business position, if there's one thing I'm very sure of it's that from a financial standpoint he/they will be better off.

    That doesn't stop people questioning whether it's the right thing to do, just because it's profitable.

    This forum needs to break even because it's not subsidised nor does it directly generate business for another area, but in the case of Andertons, if the YouTube stuff doesn't break even, then it's still contributing to brand awareness and image, it is landing them sales. Some aspect of their YouTube venture is marketing; your marketing department doesn't break even or make a profit directly, so why should part of Andertons?

    If Fender came out out and said that the YouTube aspect of their business wasn't making any money, so they want to run a patreon for it, people would just say they're taking the piss, that they should run it at a loss on an individual basis because of what it brings to the business overall.
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 26453
    edited June 2018
    Jack_ said:

    No one is suggesting that what he's doing is questionable from a business position, if there's one thing I'm very sure of it's that from a financial standpoint he/they will be better off.
    Actually, that's exactly what quite a few of these posts are doing.
    Jack_ said:

    Some aspect of their YouTube venture is marketing; your marketing department doesn't break even or make a profit directly, so why should part of Andertons?
    So...even though there's an industry-standard way to cover those costs (I'm talking about the online content production industry) by giving regular viewers more content that they're interested in, you're saying that Andertons shouldn't do it because...what, exactly? Some outdated notion that marketing should always cost money and never directly cover its costs?

    I think the part that a lot of people are finding hard to understand is that there are a lot of people who see value in the content on the Andertons channel in an entirely separate sense from the shop. Whether that's because they're fans of the people on the shows, or because there's useful information there, or they find the content useful when deciding to buy from somewhere else, or whatever. There are roughly 427,000 of those people, and you'd have to be utterly insane not to offer those people the opportunity to voluntarily support the channel.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited June 2018
    Who said that such videos make no money? You're making assumptions again.

    If you watch the videos where he talks about it, Lee says quite clearly that the YouTube channel isn't there to make money, but to foster a community (much like we've done here, except he's been orders of magnitude more successful at it). This whole thing basically says to me that he's decided that he's tired of it being a loss-leader and wants it to break even - much as we decided fairly early on. We asked for donations from our members (the people who are invested in the service that we provide); that's no different to what he's doing here, in asking his subscribers (coincidentally, the people who are invested in the service he provides).

    I find it vaguely amusing that most people on this thread seem to think that they know more about the music business and YouTube channels than he does, when the entire industry (ie the businesses) look to him for guidance on how to build a successful channel (in terms of popularity and coverage) to accompany their businesses and take them into the modern online world, and not this forum.

    And yet...everyone here thinks they're an expert on his business, his costs, how he should be running his channel and even how much it costs to get celebrities on it.

    You guys don't half make me fucking laugh sometimes...
    It's a loss leader because he can't monetize over 85% of his YouTube viewers. Most people who make good money on social media are endorsed, they don't get money directly from the people who watch their videos or view their Instagram, etc.. I still find it a bit odd that a music retailer is complaining that it costs him money to maintain his status as a YouTube celebrity  
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  • Jack_Jack_ Frets: 3175
    If I’ve learned one thing since starting my own business over 10 years ago it’s this:

    It is far far easier and much less effort to criticise someone else and their business model than it is to develop and run your own. 
    It's easier to criticise the England World Cup squad than it is turn pro and join it, so on that basis we can no longer criticise it?
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  • digitalscreamdigitalscream Frets: 26453
    Freebird said:
    Who said that such videos make no money? You're making assumptions again.

    If you watch the videos where he talks about it, Lee says quite clearly that the YouTube channel isn't there to make money, but to foster a community (much like we've done here, except he's been orders of magnitude more successful at it). This whole thing basically says to me that he's decided that he's tired of it being a loss-leader and wants it to break even - much as we decided fairly early on. We asked for donations from our members (the people who are invested in the service that we provide); that's no different to what he's doing here, in asking his subscribers (coincidentally, the people who are invested in the service he provides).

    I find it vaguely amusing that most people on this thread seem to think that they know more about the music business and YouTube channels than he does, when the entire industry (ie the businesses) look to him for guidance on how to build a successful channel (in terms of popularity and coverage) to accompany their businesses and take them into the modern online world, and not this forum.

    And yet...everyone here thinks they're an expert on his business, his costs, how he should be running his channel and even how much it costs to get celebrities on it.

    You guys don't half make me fucking laugh sometimes...
    It's a loss leader because he can't monetize over 85% of his YouTube viewers. Most people who make good money on social media are endorsed, they don't get money directly from the people who watch their videos or view their Instagram, etc.. I still find it a bit odd that a music retailer is complaining that it costs him money to maintain his status as a YouTube personality  :)
    So, when he uses the existing - and well-established - opportunity to monetise some of that 85%, you carp and criticise and imply that this is all for his ego. Got it.
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  • FreebirdFreebird Frets: 5821
    edited June 2018
    Jack_ said:
    No one is suggesting that what he's doing is questionable from a business position, if there's one thing I'm very sure of it's that from a financial standpoint he/they will be better off.

    That doesn't stop people questioning whether it's the right thing to do, just because it's profitable.

    This forum needs to break even because it's not subsidised nor does it directly generate business for another area, but in the case of Andertons, if the YouTube stuff doesn't break even, then it's still contributing to brand awareness and image, it is landing them sales. Some aspect of their YouTube venture is marketing; your marketing department doesn't break even or make a profit directly, so why should part of Andertons?

    If Andertons as a business is growing directly from its YouTube exposure, then I view it as advertising. Now if he spins it off into a new venture, which essentially retains its function of advertising Andertons, then I'm a little confused  B 

    Besides that, if we start paying £4.95 a month for one YouTube channel, then taken to it's logical conclusion it means we should be paying for every website, and every YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat account that gives us enjoyment and pleasure.
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  • BridgehouseBridgehouse Frets: 24578
    Jack_ said:
    If I’ve learned one thing since starting my own business over 10 years ago it’s this:

    It is far far easier and much less effort to criticise someone else and their business model than it is to develop and run your own. 
    It's easier to criticise the England World Cup squad than it is turn pro and join it, so on that basis we can no longer criticise it?
    Not at all. I’m just saying it’s a lot less effort to criticise. Dare I say it, it’s much easier in the internet age to publicly air our critical opinions on anything we like. 

    It takes five minutes to criticise in an internet post. Hardly any effort at all. But it can take years to build a successful business, or become an international footballer. 

    No longer criticise? Not at all. Anyone can criticise as much as they like. However, in the internet age it seems to be a given that any opinion posted is as accurate/knowledgable or indeed valid as any other. 
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