Definitely avoid Playlist Push at all costs. I was able to reinvest my extra money from gigs into this, but I know many musicians do not have the extra 5-600 bucks to throw at promotion so wanted to help anyone thinking about it. I wanted to post this to give real life examples to those who are considering paying for a music promotion service. For 25 bucks, probably the best value of all the things I did. But the ad did get 40-50 people to listen to songs on my reverb nation page. I also don't trust their statistics they claim I am the 33rd most popular artist in my region Well I am in the NYC region and I seriously doubt with all the signed/professional musicians in the NYC area plus the thousands of unsigned acts that I am number 33. Unfortunately these ads lead those who click on it to your reverbnation page and not spotify/youtube etc and i have no idea how to monetize reverbnation. I also paid 25 bucks through Reverbnation to have a "digital ad" show up on Facebook and other social media platforms. While the tweet got over 100 likes it only got 1 rewteet, resulted in only 1 new follower and had only 13 clickthroughs on the link to the song. I decide to use twitter ads, boosting a tweet I sent that had a link to the song. I'm under no illusion that 1200 people actually listened to my song, I'm sure they use bots, but at least I got something to show for my money, unlike Playlist Push. I used their "bronze" tier which for $77 says they will get your song 500-5000 plays on spotify. OmariMC, which claims to get you guaranteed listens.
Some other services I used to varying degrees of success: If you take one thing away from this post PLEASE DON'T USE PLAYLIST PUSH! So I got about a 10% acceptance rate - versus 0% - doing it myself, and more importantly only cost about $20 worth of credits to do so on Submit Hub. So why did Playlist Push send to them? What a joke, so much for "curated." Even worse, I sent the exact same song to 15 playlist curators via Submithub and got 2 accepted. Worse, I got many responses from playlist owners that the song was really good but didn't fit the style of their playlist. That's right, 300 dollars for literally nothing.
I paid them $300 to send a song to their list of "curated playlists" the song got put on zero playlists. I repeat, DO NOY WASTE YOUR MONEY ON PLAYLIST PUSH. To begin, as noted in my title, Playlist Push is a complete scam. I also would love any advice from those who have done this sort of thing I'm posting my results here for others who are thinking of paying to promote their music. So, I play 2-4 gigs a month and get paid a few hundred bucks apiece for them, nothing near enough to become a professional, but I thought I'd take some of that money and reinvest it in my music and delve into the wide world of music marketing services.
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