To create your Artist Page, you must do the following three general steps that will be described in detail in this article:
1- Upload your content (internal, external and embedded; events; deals).
2- Create your content groups.
3- Define the design of your Artist Page (tabs and sections).
Step 1: Upload your content (internal, external and embedded; events; deals)
To upload content, the first thing to do is to go to the "Artist tools" section:
There, you will see the following tools. In case you have done the identity verification, you will have more advanced tools available.
To start uploading content, go to the "Organize your content" section and then click on "Add your content":
When you do so, you will be able to start uploading content by clicking on the "Add content" button:
You must then indicate whether you wish to upload "External content" (external links), "Original content" (internal content you own on your computer or computer and wish to upload to your Artist Page) or "Embedded content" (content you own on YouTube, Spotify and/or SoundCluod and wish to incorporate into your Artist Page):
Original content -Internal content-
To create original/internal content, you must select this option in the "Type" field:
Then, you will need to select a cover image that represents that content and upload the content you want to share with your followers. The content can be an image, an audio or a video:
Then, in this same screen, you must give a title and description to this content, as well as complete the rest of the fields. Then, click on "Save".
After that, you will be able to see that this content already exists on the platform.
Of course, if you click "Add content" again, you will be able to upload more internal, external and/or embedded content.
External content
To place external content on your Artist Page, you must start the process in the same section. In this case, you must choose "External Content".
You must also upload an image that represents the external content that you will publish on your Artist Page, give it a title and put the external link in the corresponding field.
In the following image, you can see that we have uploaded a link to a SPOZZ video tutorial.
Of course, if an artist wants to share the links of a song he/she has already released on Youtube, Spotify and Soundcloud, he/she will have to fill in the respective fields. Note that in this case we will only fill in the "YouTube URL" field:
After saving, we will see that we now have that external content created (in addition to the internal content we had previously created):
Embedded Content (embedded content).
Similarly, you can also create "Embbedded Content". To do so, select this option and complete the fields with the corresponding information.
The process is very similar. You must indicate a title, upload an image that represents such content and indicate from which platform the content will be embedded (for this tutorial, we chose YouTube):
Subsequently, you must put a code, which you will take it from the YouTube, Soundcloud or Spotify page itself, as the case may be.
Next, we will show you how to get this code from YouTube. Indeed, in the video we want to link, you must click on the "Share" button on that page:
When you do so, the following window opens, in which you must select the "Embed" option:
By doing so, you will be able to access the code that you must copy and then paste into the SPOZZ platform:
Paste said link in the "Iframe" field:
Finally, click "Save". You will see that this new content has been added.
You can repeat this process as many times as you wish. In the following image, you can see that we have generated more content:
If you are an artist who has many songs on SoundCloud, YouTube and/or Spotify, we invite you to showcase your content on your Artist Page!
Events
To add events to your Artist Page, the process is similar, only in this case, you must go to the "Events" tab.
Deals
In the Deals section, for example, you could put a link to a ticket sale for an event you will be holding in the near future.
To create a "Deal", you must select this tab and click on "Add deal":
Next, you must put an image representing that event, the date and time of the event, and the link to the event's website:
In the following image, you can see that you can repeat this process and create several Deals, which you can edit or delete in "Action":
Step 2: Create your content groups.
In the "Artist tools" section, "Organize your content", you must choose the option "Define your groups":
Then, choose the "Add group" button:
Define a name for this content group and what type of content will be in it. As you can see, under “Mode”, it is possible to choose automatic or manual mode.
If you choose the automatic mode, all the content you have and will create in the future in the type of group you select (for example, “Events”) will appear in this group without you having to select it manually. On the other hand, if you choose the manual mode, you will have to define for yourself which content goes in and which does not at any given time.
Once you have made your choice, click to move on. It is worth noting that, when you wish, you can also edit an automatic group to make it manual and vice versa:
In the following image, you can see that this group is already created, together with others created previously.
Now, we will see what the process is like when creating a manual group. After choosing the manual mode, the events must be chosen in a next step:
Such a group was also created:
If you wish, you can edit or delete these groups in “Actions”.
You can repeat this process several times to create groups with original or external content, embedded, deals, events... either separately or by combining some or several of the existing items in each of them.
Of course, you must do it according to the criteria you consider appropriate.
Example 1: a group with a single item:
You can repeat this group repeatedly, to create groups with external content, embedded content, deals, events either separately or by combining any or several of the existing items in each of them.
Of course, you must do it according to a criterion that you consider appropriate.
Example 1: A group with a single item:
Example 2: A group composed of several categories (tabs) and several items within each category:
For this tutorial, we have created the following groups:
Step 3: Define the layout of your Artist Page (tabs and sections).
To create the layout of your Artist Page, go to "Artist tools" and then select the "Define your layouts" section.
By default, you already have a layout created, but you can also create a new one by clicking on the “Add layout” button:
Then, define a name for this layout (since you can create several layouts) and define whether you want your page to be divided into Tabs or Sections. In the first instance, we will create a design with the "Tabs" mode:
Subsequently, you must choose a description of yourself as an artist and you must put a banner image that represents you after clicking on the camera icon where it says "Add cover".
Then, you must load the tabs you want to your Artist Page according to the groups you have created:
For this tutorial, we select the four groups we created:
After saving, this design will be created and you must activate it to be able to see it in your Artist Page. You could also create more designs (you must always choose one of them which will be active):
If you go to your Artist Page, you will be able to see the result of this design:
According to what we had defined, the content appears in different sections. By clicking, each tab can be selected:
Next, we will create a second layout, but set according to Sections, in order to show the difference.
You must choose how many columns each section you incorporate will have:
In each group, you can choose different ways for the information to appear (carousel, square, multi-square):
For the following example, we selected carousel for Masterclasses, multi-square for My Content and square for Deals:
The platform requires you to define the number of content columns:
After saving, we must activate this new layout to be the one that appears on the Artist Page:
This is how the sections look on the Artist Page:
How to duplicate the Artist Page design?
As you can see in the following image, next to each Design, different options appear:
Respectively, each of the icons allows you to edit, duplicate, view and delete that design.
To duplicate, click on the second icon. Then, you must give a name to this new design and accept:
Now we have the original design and its copy. Only one design can be active at a time, so you must choose which of the two you want to be visible to your followers.
Next, we will proceed to make an edit in "Design 2" before activating it. On the one hand, it is possible to change the name to the description of this copy design:
Subsequently, you will be able to change the cover and add more sections if you would like or delete any of the existing ones in Design 1 (without affecting Design 1):
It is worth clarifying that if you change the design style, i.e., go from a design with sections to one with tabs (or vice versa), you will have to reload the content again:
So, click on "Add tab" to add the content groups you want under this other layout format:
Before approving, check that all the images are to your liking:
After saving the changes, we proceed to activate "Design 2". Of course, whenever we wish, we can return to the initial design or create other designs and activate them. Remember that only one design can be active at a time:
That's all for this tutorial! You have learned how to load internal, external and embedded content to your Artist Page and how to define your own layout, being able to choose between different styles for the appearance of sections or tabs. In addition, you have also seen how to duplicate layouts to generate variants with ease.