5 Incredible Ideas for Custom Mixtapes – Amazing For Valentine’s Day, Birthdays, and Your Fans Anniversaries!
The best bands and artists are harnessing the power of retro! Mixtapes are back… No, they’re not just something you gave to your first ever girlfriend all those years ago, custom cassette tapes are an amazing way for musicians to release collections of music like rareities, or romantic tunes for Valentine’s day. Music fans could […]
What was the first audio cassette you bought?
What was the first audio cassette you bought? Would you believe that 1980 is already forty years ago? This fact is never going to sink in to those alive in that era and that just means we are getting old, my friends. It seems like it’s only yesterday that we were tinkering with our cassette […]
21 Tips for marketing your music during the holidays
The holidays are fast approaching and I’m super sure that fans are looking forward to any music release from you whether that’d be a full album, an extended play, a single, or even a collab. But how do you market them during the holidays? Here’s 21 tips we could think of to help you market […]
Why everyone’s now obsessed with the vinyl record
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know that everyone’s either streaming or playing music using turntables these days. Here at Unified, we’ve seen this switch happen gradually over the years. Although we still get orders for CD replication, but since 2020, people come to us mainly for vinyl pressing and cassette tape duplication […]
15 Die Cut Music Packaging Designs
The only it’s still worth it to buy music on physical format is when it’s with a beautiful music packaging design. And few things are prettier than a die-cut packaging whether it’s for CD packaging or vinyl packaging. Here are some of the sleekest die-cut music packaging we’ve seen on the internet. They’re a little […]
12 Reasons You Should Still Release Physical Albums Even if There’s Spotify
You might be wondering if releasing a physical version of your album would be a successful one. You’re not the only one though. Many people from the music industry do, especially during this age of digital streaming. Digital streaming has been taking over music sales since 2005 and it surpassed physical sales last 2015 and […]
Will digital audio ever sound as good as analog?
Some people wonder why we still offer custom cassette tape duplication in 2020 and our answer is simple: many people still love the analog format. There has always been a never ending debate about which sounded better between the analog audio and the digital audio. The emergence of CDs, which are the first popular audio […]
7 Valuable Tips in Choosing the Best Custom Band Merch
Choosing the best custom band merch items for your band seems easy but when you’re faced with so many options, it could lead to paralysis by analysis and tension headache. There’s just so many choices! Sure, you want to have all the custom band merch items but you’re not sure which ones sell during your […]
The Biggest List of Film Festivals in the US: A must-have for every Indie filmmaker (Jan-Mar)
We decided to break our list of film festivals in the US into four because we don’t like to make a really long blog post. If you want to get an Excel file of the full list of film festivals in the USA (Jan-Dec) complete with location, e-mails, fees, and other notes, simply like our Facebook page and […]
15 ways to greatly reduce stress when releasing an album
They say music reduces stress. Well, they’re so right about that. But you know it’s different when you’re the one releasing it, right? So in this guide we put together, we’re going through fifteen essential tips—covering everything from using digital tools to finding the right partners—to make your album release stress-free (or at least less […]