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My reel got 12 views in 3 hours until I swapped the audio track
I was sitting at my desk in Austin last Tuesday, watching a food video I spent 40 minutes editing get absolutely zero traction. Turns out I used a trending song that was already saturated, so I swapped it for a niche indie track with 500 posts instead of 500k. Within 2 hours it hit 800 views and people actually commented asking what song that was. Has anyone else noticed a big difference from picking less popular audio?
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anderson.david19d agoProlific Poster
Does anyone else find that the less popular tracks actually make people stop and listen instead of just scrolling past? I switched to a smaller artist's song on my dog video last week and got 20 comments asking about the music, which never happens with big hits. It made me realize that people actually pay attention when they haven't heard the same sound 50 times already.
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jana_fox5019d ago
...and here I was thinking my cooking was just that good, but nope, it was the music all along. I swapped out a popular pop song on my cat video for some random lo-fi beat from a guy in Norway, and suddenly people were asking if my cat was "the vibe." It's a bit humbling to realize your masterpiece is only as good as the background noise you slap on it, but hey, whatever works. I guess being a little less basic with the audio is like wearing a weird shirt to a party, people actually want to know where you got it.
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