SubmitHub Reviews 1,004

I use submithub for my musical promotion for several years now and feel they offer the most transparant service compared to other similar platforms. I love the fact that they give an option to get in touch with other users and artists as well and made some valuable connections there over the years.

I used this service following the release of my band’s album. I have no complaints regarding the website’s management or its user-friendly interface.

However, my experience was frustrating. I believe this stems from a structural limit of the service and the concept behind it—something I only realized after the fact. Essentially, musicians agree to submit themselves to the completely arbitrary judgment of curators. While listeners on any platform are also arbitrary (de gustibus non est disputandum), there is a key difference: you can choose to submit directly to thousands of listeners by promoting your tracks on Instagram or other social media with just a few dozen dollars. Alternatively, you can spend that same money on curators, risking both your funds and the chance to reach thousands of potential fans in one fell swoop.

During the same period, I spent roughly the same amount on IG and SubmitHub. The results? Our album launch post on IG garnered 20k views, hundreds of interactions, dozens of new followers, and thousands of Spotify streams within two weeks. On SubmitHub… I reached 42 curators, and only 4 added the songs to their playlists (which, in any case, had far less traffic than what the IG promotions generated on Spotify). Given these numbers, I am sincerely surprised by the amount of positive feedback SubmitHub receives.

I would only consider paying for this service again if there were clear admission criteria—requirements that, if met, would guarantee placement in a playlist, with the only variable being the most appropriate genre. Frankly, the reviews from curators feel inconsistent: they provide overall positive or very positive feedback (to the point where the site generates "wrap-up" summaries for social sharing) under the "extreme honesty" mode, only to systematically refuse the track. It feels like a calculated mechanism to flatter and frustrate simultaneously, encouraging you to spend more to resubmit to different curators. Furthermore, if you use standard (free) credits, the rejection is immediate and lacks any explanation ("use premium credits for feedback").
Another bizarre aspect: our album was recorded and mixed by engineers who work with professional stadium-filling artists in Italy. It was unexpected to receive such high praise for composition and performance, yet generally negative (and vague) comments about the mixing—just enough to justify a rejection. The mechanism seems clear: once you get results (blog mentions or playlist adds), you stop paying!
Finally, regarding album review proposals: charging dozens of credits for a 200-word blurb is an unreasonable and unacceptable cost (we aren’t talking about a review in Rolling Stone).

For all these reasons… service not recommended, I'm so sorry!

SubmitHub is great. Support is really fast and easy!

Great service, always on point. Delivers for both the artist as the curator side.

mixed Felt Like how can a person Judge/critique a song in 30 seconds with such deep convection? felt like auto pinned responses of Dislike

Great job finding legitimate streaming outlets for indie musicians. Keeps us from getting involved with bad actors in the space. Reasonable cost and great results.

It's a great tool for artists who want to build on their marketing strategies

All it took was one playlist add, and the fire was lit! My Spotify game was dead, until a wonderful Playlist Curator on SubmitHub added my song onto their playlist. Think of all the qualities a service like this can have, SubmitHub has all of them and more! Go check it out, try them out!

A reputable platform for submitting music to playlists

it looks like a clear scheme for draining money. Everyone's answers are the same for different genres and compositions. I highly do not recommend it.
A refund must be provided, either in full or, for example, 70% of the money spent if the request is rejected. because it looks like a fraud. I didn't notice the interest of the authors of the playlists "everything is cool, but I'm not posting your songs."

I've been using Submithub for years. It's a simple, transparent platform with affordable and clear costs. It's the most honest and fair way to promote my music.

I’ve been using SubmitHub since the very start of my music career as Stan Folds (2019), and it’s one of the most reliable platforms out there for independent artists.

With Spotify editorial playlists being nearly impossible to land, SubmitHub is one of the few legit and affordable ways to get your music in front of the right curators and real listeners. I really appreciate the honest feedback from curators (positive or negative) and the useful tools SubmitHub offers to promote new releases like blogs amd popularity charts.

Highly recommended for artists who want transparency and real reach.

Genuine reviews and curated playlists that actually get your music heard

Perfect customer service every time!

The people make it great! People do business with people they trust, people do business with people they like. The people running SubmitHub are responsive, communicative and on top of things. They are helpful, and, they do what they say they are going to do.

It's a great place to find support for relatively cheap. It is challenging to get playlisted but it's one of the few trusted sites I use for my releases. If you do your hw on the playlists and curators you'll have a better result. I use them for every release! Grateful for this site for connecting me to curators willing to support!

Huge PR tool that saves a ton of time!
Would not think of doing music PR without it.

If I could a zero, I would. This service is random people putting together playlists that are not musical incline or know music base knowledge. I don’t like the fact that we paying for a service from random people to use our music and if it’s not place, we’re only refund if they leave a critique. I will NEVER do this again. A waste of time. This is scamming activity to money off of people.

When you are starting, its kinda lonely and the support you get keeps you trying.

I did a careful campaign and everything worked as expected. The one decline I have to date was due to a mismatch in genre which the curator was kind enough to point out yet giving me positive feedback on the quality of the song which was useful in considering who to contact for future campagns.