SubmitHub Reviews 1,004

SubmitHub sells a dream to independent artists and delivers nothing. The whole system is built to take money from musicians who just want a real chance to be heard. It’s not a discovery platform. It’s a hustle.
1. Contradictory Feedback That Means Nothing
One curator said my song was perfect but not dark enough. Another said it was perfect but too dark. That’s not feedback. That’s nonsense. It proves most curators aren’t actually listening with any care. They’re just moving through submissions fast to collect payments.
2. Recycled or AI-Generated Responses
The feedback is the same lines over and over. You can see identical sentences from different curators. It reads like it was generated or pulled from a template. SubmitHub will deny it and throw some PR explanation, but try it yourself and you’ll see. You’ll pay to read lines that could apply to any song ever made.
3. Playlists Are Mostly Dead
Most playlists on there have zero real engagement. Many have inflated follower counts but no active listeners. Getting on one does nothing for your numbers. Spotify’s own algorithmic playlists have taken over, and SubmitHub’s network has no real pull anymore.
4. The Business Model Is Insanity
You pay real money for someone to listen to one minute of your song and decide if “the mood fits.” Think about that. One minute. Then they click reject, write two meaningless sentences, and you lose your credit. You’re not paying for exposure or opportunity. You’re paying to be told “not the right mood” after 45 seconds of listening. It’s absurd.
5. It Benefits Everyone Except the Artist
Curators get paid whether they accept or reject you. SubmitHub gets a cut no matter what. The only one who loses is the artist the person actually creating something. It’s a setup that profits off musicians’ frustration and hope.
6. The Whole Thing Is Built on False Promises
SubmitHub hides behind terms like “honest feedback” and “guaranteed listen,” but that’s just marketing language. In reality, the “listen” is barely a minute, the “feedback” is generic, and the system produces almost no real exposure. The company will defend it with technicalities, but the outcome is always the same: artists spend, curators earn, and nothing changes.
7. Even the Ratings Look Fake
Look at their public ratings. Most of the recent positive ones read like scripted PR. You can spot the same tone, the same structure, the same vague “it helped me” language repeated again and again. It’s hard to believe those are real users when the experience of almost every serious artist says the opposite.

Curators often give no response or generic responses that say your music suits a particular genre that they don't promote or follow - which usually appears on their list of preferred genres that made you submit in the first place

Not worth the money whatsoever, only giving two stars because their support was pretty good

It promises much but needs a radical overhaul and consistent reviewing of their curators, otherwise its just fraudulent advertising on behalf of the curators

SubmitHub has been easy to use. Everything they say they will do, they do. It offers me a wide range of choices for getting my music heard. So far it has delivered!

Very useful platform, well designed and effective.

Big fan of SubmitHub. My music was originally released in 2011 and I never made the effort to reach out to get feedback on it. With my recent re-release, I put the music out on SubmitHub and the input from the community has been so valuable. It’s helped me validate that my music is worthy of consumption and critique, and that my peers can see my vision. It’s a great site.

SubmitHub has been extremely helpful for understanding where my music fits in. If you feel like you dont know who your target audience is, using SubmitHub can help. Over time, I have realized how to better my approach while leaning into doing exactly what I want musically, knowing the songs will find their home.

If I could give no stars I would. Absolute waste of my money, and having read other reviews with so many people getting really picky playlist makers who’s playlists sound quite averagely rubbish in my opinion, I believe it’s a set up to scam money from you with no real support at all. I had one nice comment from someone but zero shares. Never heard of any bloggers, ‘playlist curators’ or anyone involved in not sharing content on there anyway. Maybe if they stopped being fussy money scrounging idiots they might be more successful themselves and I might have actually heard of them LOL! So the site likes giving awful reviews so here’s mine: honestly do not bother. Save your money for something else

Another disrespectful service for desperate artists. Curators can give pretty much any excuse not to add your song. They are very creative when it comes to find reasons not to add it. Way too hard to get an add to a playlist, even if the song and the production is good, they will find a way to turn you down.

Robust system for playlist placement that can really help your career.

Very well laid out and easy to use site. Good customer service too

I appreciate that the team at SubmitHub took the time to respond and show interest in my feedback. That said, I still feel the return doesn’t quite justify the investment, even when carefully selecting curators with high matching scores. I’ll keep testing the platform a bit longer to see if results improve over time, as there does seem to be a genuine effort to listen to users.

A sad necessity in a world of manufactured scarcity when this shouldn't exist in the digital space, but nonetheless, helpful to get some exposure to music. Just take your time and don't waste too much money.

Submithub is one of our favourite release tools. Finding the write playlist curators and listeners for each song. The more you use submithub the better you get at finding the right matches for your music. So it may take a couple releases to get the hang of the best way to pitch your songs. But we never release without it now. Highly recommend for any independent labels & artists out there building their fanbase.

Genre diversity is pretty much 0 on this website, they only got curators for basic, radio-friendly music. Also the recommended curators kinda suck, you can find better with just a search of a keyword. Plus, the coverage they give is soooo low, unless you submit to a curator with 2% approval rate, and they're never going to pick you. So yeah, nice initiative but bad experience overall.

I have been on Submit Hub for years now, and I will sincerely argue that they don't support artists. They encourage artists to purchase credits and have curators criticize artists' songs, whereas the same curators are playlisting less standard songs from top labels. The curators on Submit Hub are careless; they are just there to grab credits from upcoming artists. 1,000,000% SCAM, i pray KARMA meets all these greedy curators

Honestly I was first introduced to SubmitHub about 18 months ago, by my very good friend and fellow artist Pedler. I was a little cynical at first as we all are, especially because I had used services similar to SubmitHub that weren’t nearly close to my expectations. Since I started using SubmitHub my streams have catapulted, as well as my listeners, & followers on all streaming platforms, and my name has become a little more familiar to the unfamiliar. The very easy to use website, detailed, yet super simple specifications make it a breeze through to use. I am really impressed in what SubmitHub has done for me thus far. In the odd occasion there is a specific inquiry, dealing with SubmitHub’s customer service, is like dealing with a good friend not an automated robot or an insipid customer service agent. They truly go above and beyond for their clients! I highly recommend SubmitHub to any artist trying to get their name out there and build their brand.

Fabulous curators and easy to use once you use “similar playlists” analysis to find best curators for your music.

I'm using free credits to submit my track for a month now. Zero times it was approved. Reading reviews here, I understand that if I pay, my track will be rejected with the AI-generated comment.
Free DP approves my track at least.

Update: SubmitHub provided me with some Premium points for testing, and using them makes a difference. You can choose a curator with a high submissions rate (for Premium), and your track will be approved. Not sure if it will be listened to though :)
SH support is good at least, so I'm changing the rate.

One of the best places for musicians to place requests for playlisters. Nice features compared to some competitors — especially like the level of control when submitting a song: you could listen to the playlist to understand how well your song will fit it.