SubmitHub Reviews 

SubmitHub is a great place to submit your music to Spotify playlists. You can do it on a budget and submit to as few or as many playlists as you like.

I’ve tried several other music promotion platforms, and many require you to spend a larger amount of money upfront. With SubmitHub, you can spread your spending out over time and submit as you go. That makes it much easier for an independent artist or band to manage a promotion budget and choose which playlists and curators you want to target.

The biggest negative is really the individual playlist curators, and I think it’s important not to confuse the curators with SubmitHub itself. There are plenty of good curators, but you will also run into some who seem more interested in collecting submission fees than actually finding music for their playlists.

There is also no guarantee how long you will stay on a playlist. A curator may accept your song and add it, but you can drop down the playlist within days as new songs are added. That is something I’ve experienced with playlist promotion in general, not just SubmitHub. Ultimately, the curator controls the playlist, the placement, and how long your song gets meaningful exposure.

SubmitHub seems to do what it can to make the process fair and transparent, but it cannot completely control how every individual curator manages their playlist.

Overall, I’ve had a good experience with SubmitHub and continue to use it. My advice to other independent artists is to learn which curators are worth your money, keep track of your results, stop spending money on the ones that don’t deliver, and don’t assume every rejection is a reflection of the quality of your music.

SubmitHub is a solid platform overall, and I’ll continue to use it. My experience has been somewhat mixed, though. As an independent artist, I sometimes have a difficult time finding curators whose genres truly fit my music, which can make the results vary quite a bit from campaign to campaign.

Because of that, I don’t always feel like I get my money’s worth. I appreciate that SubmitHub provides feedback and gives artists a way to communicate with curators through the chat feature, but in practice, that communication isn’t always as easy or useful as it might seem.

There are definitely opportunities here, and I’ve had some positive experiences, which is why I’ll continue using the platform. I just think there’s room for improvement when it comes to matching artists with the right curators and making communication between artists and curators a little more effective.

Very serious playlists. Ultra verified. Their playlists checker is accurate. They are no more accepting AI music except for some sections. It is a new thing. Your music needs to be 85% acoustic.
What else? Lots of things to explore. Influencers for example.
You should give it a try.
Jason the founder is very present.

Our band has always been averse to using paid services when it comes to promotion - we can do it all ourselves etc. However, with the release of our latest single we thought we'd give a try to Submithub after the guy helping us mix and master it said bands he'd worked with had had success. We bought £60 of credits out of the band pot and started sending it to curators.

We've had a surprising amount of positive response, been playlisted, reviewed and added to radio shows. It remains to be seen whether it will affect our long term stuff, but it's been nice for our stuff to be acknowledged, feedback given, and has made releasing stuff feel exciting again.

One of the few ways to submit songs to blogs and playlists have been using Submithub for years and multiple projects

I recommend to work with SumitHub!

Jason and Dylan play fair game and services are really good and give musicians chance To get heard. Awesome guys!

Some of the feedback was helpful.

They shared our song on their platforms and playlist and were so gracious about doing so. We really want to thank them and recommend them for submission and listening. We are fans!

Very complicated and everything to be paid

I have used SubmitHub extensively and still use the platform because there are many good, genuine curators, and because I have found few genuinely comparable alternatives. However, a recent experience has significantly reduced my confidence in its curator rating system.

I paid for a Premium submission and received feedback that I considered very poor because it was brief and did not meaningfully explain why the track was not suitable for the curator’s playlist. The feedback was essentially that my song was “quite sad”. I complained because this gave me no useful explanation of why that was a problem or why the track was unsuitable.

To SubmitHub’s credit, their support representative acknowledged that the feedback was weak and, more importantly, confirmed that this curator had received similar criticism from other users and that repeated poor feedback ratings could lead to action being taken. I was also given two credits as a courtesy.

However, I was told that the curator had technically met the requirements because they had listened for the required amount of time and written the minimum number of words. I was also advised that, to avoid poor-quality feedback, artists should examine curators’ feedback ratings carefully before submitting.

The problem is that I later discovered that this same curator was prominently labelled “Top rated” by SubmitHub, despite the platform also showing that users frequently find their feedback vague or confusing and that their feedback scores are below average.

I contacted SubmitHub again to ask what “Top rated” actually means and how a curator with poor feedback ratings can retain such a prominent endorsement. The explanation I eventually received was that “Top rated” takes several aspects of a curator’s performance into account, not simply feedback quality.

That may explain the internal calculation, but I don’t think it resolves the customer-facing problem. A prominent “Top rated” badge naturally communicates a strong recommendation. Customers should not have to dig into secondary information to discover that a curator may actually be below average for one of the services they are paying to receive.

My concern is therefore not really about the two credits anymore. It is about transparency.

SubmitHub provides a useful service and I would like to continue using it, but I think its rating system needs to communicate much more clearly what “Top rated” actually means, particularly when a curator’s feedback-quality scores tell a very different story.

Update: SubmitHub’s founder, Jason, contacted me personally, clearly explained the system and acted on my concerns. He changed “Top rated” to “Highly rated,” clarified the FAQ and updated the badge criteria. I genuinely appreciate such a constructive response.

As a curator who has worked with this platform for 8 long years. DO NOT PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC ON THIS PLATFORM.

Let me tell you this, this platform cares more about the amount of submissions that are being sent, than actual music, or actual art.

With the rise of AI, they just don’t care, even as a curator if you turn NO AI MUSIC to ON, you’ll still receive so much AI slop.

I’m a fan of real art, eventually turned into a curator that ONLY curated Jazz, because I feel like that’s one of the genres that hasn’t been saturated with AI slop so far, but still..

Behind the scenes there is a lot of stuff happening that people have no idea about. Most curators don’t really care about your music, just the money they make off of you, and the platform acts like they don’t support that, but at the same time they still accept AI slop on their platform.

Do yourself a favor and learn how to run ads to your own music, that’s how curators get the listeners on their playlists as well. Don’t spend money on these platforms, ONLY if you’re REALLY looking for feedback, and then still. Most curators will just say ‘I like it’ or ‘I don’t’ in 28483728 different ways.

If you want real feedback, reach out to artists you like, and pay them a decent amount for actual feedback. Most curators aren’t even artists so what do they know about music?

I hope this helps. Keep creating ART and promote it yourself ❤️

you pay for playlist submission and the curators get paid for rejecting your submission, the platform is not fair
Your platform should be shut down because it's useless, you are taking advantage of the artists, with the excuse that spotify will shut you down, you are scamming people into paying you money for playlist placements which they get all rejected, and the money get taken away

Google "Many SubmitHub playlists have low or inactive listener counts, which is a common reason submissions do not yield significant results."

We submitted to alternative rock Spotify Curators which stated we're a 10 on the genre match scale and we're told "sorry we're not looking alternative rock...."

We pitched to 10, of which 3 approved us, but we never seen 1 stream confirmed in Spotify for Artists.

Also, a lot of the playlist Curators can be pitched to for FREE on Daily Playlist.

There services will all hopefully die out very soon

The best platform to take off into new musical horizons. I’ve been using SubmitHub to promote my music and I’ve had a great experience overall. The team is reliable and precise — submissions get reviewed in a timely manner, and the feedback from curators and playlisters feels genuine and useful, not generic. It’s a solid tool for artists looking for honest opinions and real exposure opportunities. Highly recommend for anyone serious about getting their music heard.

The only trusted place to organically promote your music. You actually see results, when the track aligns with the curators, or get helpful feedback if it doesn't. No Bots, no BS.

Great platform. One of the best out available. Real results and amazing constructive criticism. Real eye opener

It is obvious this company is not where you want to find playlist for your music, complete waste of money and time, the genre Target is terrible which in turn produces a really high rejection rate, and it is obvious that the curators half the time don't even listen and just send a copy and paste message that sounds like something AI wrote my experience was pretty terrible!