SubmitHub [Everything You Should Know]

The mission of SubmitHub is to help you (the artist) get your music on Spotify playlists, blogs, radio stations, and to connect with influencers, labels, and youtubers.

It seems that lately SubmitHub has become the "necessary evil" for independent artists to get their music reviewed with the hope of getting some press or at least a placement on a Spotify playlist. Just like the playlists we have at Neon Collective.

SubmitHub can be a valuable tool for artists but it can also be a time and money waster depending on a few things. This is what we're going to dive into with this post and explain everything you need to know about SubmitHub. If you're looking to extend your SubmitHub knowledge, you can check Ari's review on SubmitHub here.

The following sections will cover different parts of SubmitHub and then finally our honest opinion at the end of the post. Our promise to you is that by the end of this post you'll understand if SubmitHub is a good tool for you to leverage with your music marketing and promotion.

The Submission Process

First, you will need to setup your profile. The profile info is fairly standard like it is on every internet site. Add your artist name, a picture, fill out your social links and then top it off with a short bio.

Your complete profile should look something like this. This is Charles Cleyn, an indie pop artist from Canada.

On your profile is where we you'll be able to edit your songs or add more. We'll also be able to see the status of current and past campaigns.

Once we're done setting up the info on our profile then we can upload our song or multiple songs to SubmitHub.

You can provide a variety of links; SoundCloud, Spotify, Youtube, Apple Music, Deezer, and a few others. However, to guarantee that the curators can listen to your song, we recommend to upload an mp3 of your song. Don't worry your file will be kept private and won't make its rounds around the internet. That would be a nightmare.

Once we have our song or songs uploaded, now it's time to figure out if we want to use free credits or premium credits.

What's the difference?

SubmitHub is based around credits. Anyone who signs up to SubmitHub gets two free credits. If you use these credits, you can wait 24 hours, and then receive two more free credits.

Two credits are good for about one submission. So, with that said, it's completely fine to use SubmitHub for free without ever paying. You just need to stick to the free credits and submit your music; one playlist at a time, waiting 24 hours in between each pitch, until your credit refills. Oh, by the way, the credits don't accumulate. So, if you don't use your two free credits, it's not like it turns into four credits the next day. It stays at two.

So what if you want to submit to more curators at a faster rate?

Let's say you want to pitch your music to 30 blogs or 30 playlists in one day. This is possible if you purchase premium credits. SubmitHub premium credits can be purchased in 5, 10, 30, or 100 batches.

The more credits you buy the bigger discount you get. So if you know for a fact that you'd like to submit to 90 playlists then it might make sense for you to buy the 100 credits option.

So what's better Free Credits or Premium Credits?

Well, it's hard to beat free. However, there are some benefits to premium that you don't get with free.

The premium credit benefits are:

1. Guaranteed response within 48 hours

2. Your submission filters to the top

3. They must listen for at least 20 seconds

4. You'll get some feedback if the don't like your song. However, if you don't want feedback, you can make them listen to 90 seconds instead.

Above all this, if these conditions aren't met with 48 hours then you will get your shiny credits back. That's nice to know. In our experience, about 25% of our submissions on SubmitHub don't meet these conditions so we get the credits back and can submit again. Nice.

Still not sure if it's worth it to get the premium credits? Keep reading.

The SubmitHub Curators

Let's talk about the curators on SubmitHub for a second. Who are these people? Where do they come from? Are the legitimate or is it just Bob in his bedroom?

To be honest, there are some shady characters on SubmitHub. All curators must be vetted before joining so at least theres that but who's to say some 'no name' blog or curator can make their way in?

There are minimum requirements for curators to meet depending on how they want to promote the artists work.

For example, a curator who has a Spotify playlist must have a minimum of 1,000 followers on the playlist. Or if the curator wants to share music on their Instagram then they would need a minimum of 5,000 instagram followers.