Vydia Reviews 

Wrongfully terminated account of label, leaving us to explain all of our artists why they are not receiving their royalties. All songs had the correct rights, none are infringing, and they were all properly licensed beats from producers with no issues. We received no explanation of the termination and had over $12,000 or more in royalties withheld and never paid to us.

To make it worse they kept some of our music live on DSPs, and kept all of our songs in ContentID so they are monetizing all of our works and paying us nothing. DO NOT WORK WITH THIS COMPANY. To make matters even worse they reached out to us FIRST to work with us. They knew we had catalog they could scam us out of. We will be pursuing all available legal remedies

WARNING: My Experience with Vydia Music Distribution

After more than 3 years of dealing with Vydia, I feel compelled to share my experience.

Vydia falsely accused my music of artificial streaming and used this as justification to withhold over £5,000 in royalties that were rightfully earned. What makes this situation even more concerning is that despite claiming my music violated their policies, they continued to keep my songs live on streaming platforms, where they continued generating streams and revenue month after month.

If the streams were genuinely invalid, why were my releases left active and monetized? That is a question Vydia has never properly answered.

Over time, I have also noticed changes to their terms and conditions that appear designed to protect the company while leaving artists with fewer rights and less transparency regarding withheld earnings.

As an independent artist, I expect fair treatment, accurate reporting, and payment for every legitimate stream generated by my music. Instead, I have spent years attempting to recover royalties that I believe are owed to me.

I will be pursuing all available legal options to recover my earnings, seek compensation, and hold accountable everyone involved in what I consider to be unfair and deceptive business practices.

Based on my experience, I would strongly advise artists to thoroughly research Vydia before distributing their music through the platform.

Every stream matters. Every royalty matters. Artists deserve transparency, accountability, and payment for the work they create.

Copyrighting independent artists and distributing AI-slop. Evil, villainous corporation.

Stealing other peoples work and then copyrighting it. Do not do business with this company.

been on vydia for a little bit more than a year now. one random day, my account got locked and i went to support NUMEROUS times and all they did was stall me out. on top of that, this happened right after they were supposed to pay me my royalties. coincidence? i don't think so. this pathetic company is withholding my money for no good reason, they won't even tell me why they banned me, as well as the fact that they have taken down all my stuff but left content id on so they can monetize off of my music and i can't do anything about it.

Don’t work with a company that can terminate a contract for ‘no reason at all’.

truly could not reccomend them any less. They cannot figure out how to communicate, they release music on the wrong dates and out of order, they generally are rude and unhelpful. They basically poison any project they get their grubby little hands on.

Be cautious of the distribution company Vydia. I inquired about why my account showed a -$300 balance when I haven't spent any money on promotion. They refused to pay me the $137 they owe me. When I asked about it, they responded in a rude manner. I believe this distribution company should be shut down.

Vydia is scamming independent artists. You have to wait until the 15th to receive your money, and you can't withdraw it whenever you want. They even tried to charge me for a negative balance associated with my account, which I refused to pay. I told them to cancel my account, and they got upset. The guy who was supposed to be my marketer is also a scammer. All they seem to care about is making money.

They banned me without reason, when I ask them the reasons they banned my account They say they will review and contact me but that never happened.

Vydia was ok at first. Until they charged me 500$ for a Usage Violation Fee. I uploaded a remix to a song and didn’t think much of it. I checked my account and noticed a charge for 500$. I emailed Vydia and was told the copyright owner issued a DMCA takedown for the remix (in December). There’s no reason I should be charged 500$ for making a remix on someone else's beat. It’s wiser to just give the user a warning. I am extremely disappointed in Vydia and will be transferring back to Distrokid.

I've been in the record label game for about 10 years now and vydia - by far - has the most hands on and professional approach when dealing with a distributor.

Coming from what's considered a 3rd world country, their technology has helped us gain the traction we have needed for continual growth in our region and I look forward to many more fulfilling years with them.

Vydia hit me with the Metro Boomin “WE NEVER LIKED YOU” recently. Vydia only loves their celebrity artist like 4batz, Sexyy Red, Rick Ross, whoever. RUSS back to TuneCore, many are leaving. VYDIA STOLE PLENTY LITTLE ARTIST ACCOUNTS WHO GAINED 1 OR MORE THOUSAND DOLLARS, and claims the artist hasn’t updated payment method. I accidentally liked Vydia to know they had vevo and invite only accepted me but that was to let me upload original music of mines gain $1,000 and get my account terminated and my ENTIRE catalog pulled from every service, and money kept by Vydia for violation fee. Violation wasn’t explained to me they said account was closed and the discussion won’t go any further. They mean “we don’t care, like, or need you, good bye!”

Ahhh Vydia... the home of the finessing distributor! Has to be the most careless Distributor with accolades. That's cool that you get to host grammy events, it's cool that you act like you're helpful with your clients but if you love honest beings that care for you art... don't pick these guys lol hopefully you're not too blinded by the "russ" and other big artists saying how well they treat them. DUH YOU'RE A CELEBRITY WITH A BASE... But i'll continue on them later

First finesse... They take 20% of everything without you knowing but they also make you pay for the memory/storage of the records you upload. So they're taking upfront and backend. So if you're currently in Vydia... just ask them lol when you find out they're taking 20% AND you're paying annually for storage lol who does that? Who doesn't let their clients know that they're taking 20% (Watch them say... "it's in the fine print" lol how can use finesse thousands of artists and smile)

Second finesse, they're "invite-only" system is what blesses their eco-system. Anytime you send out splits for a song, it automatically makes the person receiving the splits a client. I won't mention my experience as I can't allow them to figure out who I am for the time-being but a bunch of us will be leaving our experiences of Vydia when things get more comfortable with us.

Third finesse (A LIST ARTISTS)... They get big artists to do deals with them and act like they'll do the same for other artists. Let me break it down for ya... They use their top 1% of artists to finesse the remaining 99% to act like they do anything for you. The 1% of artists DONT have the same deal as the remaining 99% of artists but like stated... their 1% is talking about Vydia like they would do the same with the remaining 99% lol I've been with Vydia for 3 years now, they never pitched my music. EVER. I'll speak on my experience later as I have to protect myself for the time-being.

Fourth Finesse: They use PR and form sites to their advantage. Anytime someone speaks on "Distributors" on Reddit for example, there will be a fake fan account of Vydia speaking on how they're an amazing billion dollar company that work with big acts LOL how about you talk about the remaining 99% of artists you're finessing for 20%. Search any form site and you'll see what I'm talking about.

I tried to talk internally but now... I understand how pathetic you guys are, keep sucking on money from the developing artists. I'm going to make sure people stand up... Money moves the globe but as you can see with P Diddy, all it takes is one strong being to stand up... I was never a visual person but soon... you'll see how visual I really am. Treat humans like humans, not dogs.

*Once my situation gets solved, you'll know exactly who I am. Till then I'll have you guessing but Vydia... you never had to treat me like garbage for years. Especially when you did absolute NOTHING for me.*

THEY AUTO CLAIM YOUR MUSIC AND DONT ALLOW YOU TO COLLECT REVENUE FROM THIRD PARTY DISTRIBUTORS. DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE!!!

Vydia has been a biggest scammer in the music industry.
Not answering your emails about your payments.

Unprofessional way of payment.

It's a scam I've had way too many Conflict interests and I ain't never ever signed to any record label in my life or have a ghostwriter or was I ever affiliated with somebody and to Really Top it off I made a song from scratch and wrote the lyrics and used my drum machine beats tell me why was it getting a conflict interest Vydia is a scam delete all your content from their website

I haven’t left a review online in almost 4 years but I have got to say I never honestly seen a company lose so much of its respect and credibility like this one.

Not only is the Vydia mobile app non existent now, Years ago you could call Vydia with the contact phone number and a live representative would answer your call and help you with any issues you had at all.

I have been waiting over 2 weeks just to simply post a new banner picture for my channel and get rid of a few of my lyric videos so I can post new and more updated versions.

None of my emails ever get replied, when you call now some machine answers and hangs up after a brief message.

I’m sorry but after being a loyal costumer since 2016, it’s time for me to move forward. It’s clear this company is only a shell of itself and definitely going down hill.

And it’s not fair as a paying customer I can no longer manage or edit my video profile. I predict in a few years this company will no longer be running. The competition now for independent video distribution is getting big. Companies like DistroVid and DistroKid have awesome costumer representatives. I know because I use them for music distribution which now I might have to switch to Video distribution as well.

Absolutely horrible experience with Vydia. I have asked them multiple times to update my files, and although after weeks of asking, they did update them on their website itself, none of the changes showed up on the platforms! So ultimately after well over a month, nothing has been done. They don't let you update your own catalogue, and don't get back to you for days or weeks at a time. I would never recommend working with them to anyone. Stay far away.

**Update:
I have some connections in the business, and because of someone reaching out one of the higher ups in the company called me and personally assured me that he would look into my case, and be my personal point of contact moving forward. He promised to call me the next day to follow up. He never called me, and didn't return my calls afterwards. Nor was the issue resolved in any way. I am still waiting for them to just delete my files so I can move to another distributor. I am beyond frustrated. How a company could treat its clients like this is beyond me.

Please back my money!
Vydia has made one-sided accusations that I violated the contract but did not have any specific evidence. They delayed the payment of September 2022 and said that they are upgrading the system and will pay later, then they locked my dashboard account, followed by ignoring my email after sending an email to tell me the violation. They did not let me have the opportunity to discuss or let the two sides support each other to find the best way to handle it - something that always exists in all collaborations.
The total royalties for September to November 2022 are about 20.000 dollars. I have the detailed report for Sept and Oct, they are over 12.000 dollars.
If their partner has a violation (in case of a violation that has been verified with clear evidence), they also can not keep 100% of the partner's revenue as Vydia is doing.
Do not rob all the effort of such small artists!