We help musicians connect with curators. Our goal is to make it transparent and easy, but we can't promise guaranteed success. Curators are picky and often to the point. The space is highly competitive and you need to have tough skin.
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Is SubmitHub legit?
SubmitHub (submithub.com) has a 4.3 out of 5 rating on OK.one, based on 108 user reviews collected here. It is listed under Media & Publishing and its reputation is good. 80% of reviews are 4 stars or higher and 8% are 1 star; The business has replied to 69% of negative reviews; Reviews mostly discuss User experience, Product. Last updated 2026-08-11.
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Reviewers had a great experience with this company. Customers frequently praise the intuitive website interface, smooth navigation, and the exceptionally helpful promotional tools available to independent musicians trying to grow their audience. Consumers deeply appreciate connecting with genuine curators who provide honest, detailed insights and meaningful feedback to actively support long-term musical growth and success.
Though some reviewers noted occasional challenges regarding small playlist sizes, strict guidelines, and temporary placement durations across various musical genres, consumers also mentioned that certain industry professionals can sometimes feel a bit inconsistent or difficult to match properly with specific artistic styles.
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Im a curator and their support is terrible. Working with Jami is frustrating and they'll put holds on your account without letting you know! no discussion or anything! their scoring system just does not work and is not transparent as well! Curators your time might be better spent on some of the other up and coming services where your time is paid at a much better value and a system that actually makes sense to both the curator and the artist submitting music. I do not reccomend.
Reply from SubmitHub2026-03-14
Hi Alexander, we tend to only put a hold on an account if we're not getting a response or if we feel that account no longer qualifies to be listed. You can email [email protected] if you want me to review the case.
The "promote" button replaces the "submit" button.
The new development is that you can't just press a submit button. What used to be a submit button is now a "promote" button, that requires payment. This site wants your money. Trying to submit music for free consideration for playlisting Is a thing of the past. There are hardly any unpaid opportunities and 99% of the time the playlists reject your music, no matter how good it is.
Reply from SubmitHub2026-03-14
Hey Jonathan, I tried to set this up so both options are available. Under the "advanced" button, there's a "remember my preference" checkbox and then it goes back to the single click way it was before. Did you see that button? Let me know if it's not working?
Honestly I like it, I use it for free at the moment and found that they give free credits to submit sometimes you hit sometimes you miss I can appreciate that already from a company.
The only way to get something out of submithub is to spend huge amount of money or time, because the curators are picky, often times not even musically educated, and the platform doesn’t help you at all to find the right ones.
I always get excellent feedback, praising my tracks but then there is some tiny detail (eg this instrument is just a bit too bright/dark) which doesn’t make the cut.
Some have even started replying using AI, which makes one wonder why spending the money in the first place.
Reply from SubmitHub2026-03-10
Yes curators are picky, but we do *not* recommend spending more money if a song isn't getting shared.
I typically recommend starting with 5-10 submissions go see what the reception is like. Based on that, you can either scale up, or change the approach.
We do not allow curators to use AI to write their feedback and we have many protections in place for this. I will reach out to you to get details on which curator you suspect was using AI.
I’ve been using SubmitHub for about 10 years. It’s been a reliable tool for promoting my new releases, building connections with playlist curators as music bloggers, and building my presence on music streaming services like Spotify. The pricing is fair, and options like “Hot or Not” can be helpful for both testing the waters with a new song, and networking with other artists. I’ve connected with publishers, labels, curators and bloggers over the years, and my experience with SubmitHub has been a positive one, especially when compared to the available competition. Naturally, my results and my satisfaction with those results has improved as the quality of my work has improved over the years. The better I’ve gotten, the more approvals my songs get and the broader the audience they reach. Overall a worthwhile tool for music promotion in the age of music streaming & social media.
Plenty of tools at your disposal for music research, marketing your submissions and networking. Plus, the playlists are monitored. That's real people. Real streams. Real results.
The platform is full of idiots and "curators" who doesn't understand the genre of music, or write feedbacks like that:"Hi there, thank you for the request. Nice track, but sounds too distant to my metal playlist (ref. Bad Omens, Poppy, Architects). I'm sos orry but I'm passing this time. All the best" and other stupid criticism like I like music and vocals, but not on the Chorus. Or your harsh vocals aren't heavy enough, or they're too heavy. I feel like Submit Hub is a basic scam for money.
SubmitHub are key to so many things we do at our record label, we've been working with them closely for a year or so now.
We tried running our own Meta Ads, but we couldn't get close to the performance in terms of streams/listeners & fans/follows as we do from using SubmitHub ads (where they create/manage Meta Ads for you).
It's also by far the best platform for connecting artists to curators & industry contacts. They are the cornerstone of our playlist network and also the main source of new artists that we've discovered and signed to our label. The team are also super helpful, friendly, and responsive.
We highly recommend them to anyone working in the music industry - especially to artists looking for legitimate tools to promote their music, SubmitHub are the good guys in a world full of 'promotional services' that are a rip off, or worse, will get your music taken down by distributors and streaming services.
It seems that the platform is loaded with curators with bad intentions. I haven't found any reason to speak any better. I don't know if this has to do with the platform or bad curators
Reply from SubmitHub2026-02-25
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. Curators are on SubmitHub to find music they like. Unfortunately they cannot say "yes" to everything they receive. If they did, they'd no longer be curating - they'd simply be sorting.
I really appreciate putting submissions on SubmitHub a lot. Being an independent artist trying to get exposure is a challenge, yet being on SubmitHub has allowed my music to get global exposure at a lower cost than I have expected. This is huge for me!
We checked out SubmitHub as an alternative provider to create Smart Links for our Meta Ads campaigns (re. CAPI, etc.) and spotted that result coming through were actually better than most other providers. Plus, support from Jason has been outstanding - very quick and user focused. Would recommend. :)
I’ve submitted three songs, and none were accepted. The curators mostly provide generic comments, even when acknowledging catchy hooks or high-quality production. Some curators themselves admit the tracks are strong, yet they are still declined. It feels like paying for feedback that doesn’t genuinely help.
I’ve studied the review patterns enough to anticipate that the owner might dismiss this by pointing to other services that promise higher acceptance rates, or by citing the overall approval rate - but that doesn’t change the fact that my experience has been frustrating and unproductive.
Reply from SubmitHub2026-02-14
Sorry to hear you had a frustrating experience. You're right - not all artists / songs receive the same results, and we cannot guarantee songs will be shared. I do wish you the best as you continue your journey!
The best option to promote music for an independent artist
The "least worse option" to promote your music online. It's great but it's mostly small playlists and sometime curators don't give you a valid reason to refuse your music (e.g. taste even though your song matches their playlists - which is sad) but out of all the options out there, it's probably the best and with mostly non-bots and organic streams, in opposition other services like Members Media that I recently used but does not deliver as promised and the few streams one gets are bot streams... which basically is the definition of a scam. There are many scam / fake websites out there but submithub is clearly the best out of all the "not so great options" that are out there!
Reply from SubmitHub2026-02-11
Haha thanks, I guess! By the way, we have *entirely* non-bots and organic streams. We'd be shooting ourselves in the foot if we allowed that.
I had my first promotion with the platform. Out of 4 curators, 3 accepted my song and only one declined it. But then the curator who rejected it rather listened to my song to the total length. This tells that he/she did like the song but for some strange reason declined to promote it.
Very impressed with the support. I've only lodged a couple of support tickets but each time I received a reply within hours and follow up responses within minutes. And the responses were helpful. That's a rarity with online services these days, so that deserves a thumbs up.
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