How To Automate Music Marketing With AI

This weekend build shows how to automate music marketing with a small, reliable stack. You will ship three workflows that cut manual work, keep creative control, and make your next release smoother.

Problem or Context

Artists release more music than ever while attention is scarce. Doing everything by hand is a grind, it does not scale, and it delays releases. The fastest path to progress is to automate the repetitive tasks while you keep the creative calls. The stack below is low cost, understandable for a mildly technical artist, and flexible for future growth.

Setup at a Glance

Use n8n to orchestrate flows. Spin up n8n Cloud or self host with Docker, then confirm you can create a workflow, run it, and view the run in Executions.

Create a Google Cloud project for your channel. Enable YouTube Data API v3 and, if you want richer metrics later, YouTube Analytics API. Create an OAuth client. If the app is in Testing, add your Google account as a test user. Remember quotas: the default is 10,000 units per day, an upload costs 1,600 units, list and read calls are cheap.

In Discord, open your channel Integrations and create a Webhook, then copy the webhook URL.

In Telegram, talk to BotFather to create a bot, copy the token, and add the bot to your group or channel if needed.

Store all credentials inside n8n Credentials, not directly in nodes.

Tip: name credentials and variables clearly, for example youtube_oauth_artist_main, so later you can reuse them across workflows without guessing.

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The Three Automations You Will Ship

These workflows are independent yet reinforce each other. The Autopilot publishes a teaser, the Performance Loop turns data into simple next steps, and the Rally Button makes community updates effortless.

Automation 1 - Release Day Autopilot

Goal

When a teaser is ready, the workflow uploads it to YouTube in a Shorts friendly format, then posts a link and a short message to your community on Discord and Telegram.

What you need

A vertical teaser file, your YouTube OAuth credentials stored in n8n, a Discord webhook URL, and a Telegram bot token with the target channel or group chat_id.

Steps at a glance

Start with a Manual Trigger so you can test easily. Add an HTTP Request or Google Drive node to fetch the teaser file. Make sure the video is vertical, 9 to 16 aspect, and keep it under one to three minutes depending on creative. Shorts classification uses length and aspect, so vertical is preferred.

Add the YouTube Upload node. Set the Title to your Artist and Song with the word Teaser, write a concise Description with one or two lines and include your key links and UTMs, add a few genre and mood tags, then choose Public for a live drop or Unlisted for a test. An upload consumes 1,600 quota units. If uploads stall on large files or flaky networks, switch to resumable upload semantics.

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Troubleshooting and Gotchas

• If you see OAuth App not verified in Google, add the channel account as a test user while the app is in Testing.
• For large uploads that fail, use resumable uploads so the transfer can restart from the last chunk.
• If schedules run at odd hours, confirm the workflow timezone and the instance timezone.
• For Discord, embeds must be an array even if you only include one. Each message must include either content or embeds.
• For Telegram formatting, set parse_mode when you expect bold or links, otherwise you will see raw characters.
• Keep upload calls intentional because each costs 1,600 units. Batch read calls for your daily brief to stay far under 10,000.

Exact Node Configurations Without Code

Here is what to fill in, step by step, without code snippets.

YouTube upload: operation is Upload, title uses Artist and Song with Teaser in parentheses, the Description is two short lines with your main link, tags include your genre and mood, privacy is Public for live or Unlisted for test. If you fetched or converted the file inside n8n, set the Binary Property to the same name used when you attached the file. For very large files switch to a custom HTTP Request using the resumable protocol with uploadType=resumable.

Discord webhook: send a POST to your webhook URL. Include either a simple text content field or an embed with a title, a url pointing to your YouTube video, and a short description. If nothing shows up, check that you sent at least or an embed and that the JSON is valid. Keep emojis tasteful and minimal.