As your trusted partner, we wanted to take a moment to warn you about some deceptive ads we’ve recently seen for illegitimate promotion services. Don’t use any music promotion company that sells playlist placements, or claims they can increase your streams. …

Snapchat! It’s one of the most popular apps in the world: more than 265 million daily active users send 5 billion posts (“Snaps”) to each other every day. Snapchat recently launched a new featured called Sounds on Snapchat that lets its users easily add music to Snaps. Today, we’re excited…

Starting today, DistroKid is partnering with Twitch to offer qualifying DistroKid members — who have shown a level of dedication and success in music — the opportunity to join the Twitch Affiliate Program. The Twitch Affiliate Program is open to Twitch streamers who meet select qualifications, and allows those who…

Today I’m excited to announce “DistroKid Upstream.” Many artists want to stay independent. But some don’t. For artists who are interested in signing with a record label, we’ve built Upstream. Upstream is a matchmaking service that helps artists looking for labels, and labels looking for artists, to find each other…

Recently, Spotify removed music from their service due to suspected “artificial streams.” These takedowns were distributor-agnostic and affected music from all distributors (not just DistroKid). And though DistroKid wasn’t involved in the takedowns, we exist to help artists. So I figured a “behind-the-scenes” look at how artificial streaming most commonly…

Hello! If you use DistroKid to distribute your music, now when someone listens to your song on Spotify (mobile app), you can show them a video! …instead of regular album art. Spotify calls it “Canvas,” it’s cool, and available to all DistroKid members (for free) starting today. The easiest way to upload your video to Spotify is using the Spotify for Artists mobile app: Sign into Spotify for Artists mobile app (iPhone, Android)

Vote! (for your favorite song) (and also in the general election if you’re in the US) Tomorrow is election day in the USA. So we thought today would be a good day to launch the DistroKid Playlist Spotlight. Playlist Spotlight is a contest, like a rap battle or battle of…

Synced lyrics are all the rage. It’s that thing on Instagram and Apple Music where lyrics scroll — in perfect time — with the music. Karaoke-style, so that listeners can follow (and sing) along. Starting today, DistroKid lets any artist automatically create & upload synced lyrics. DistroKid is the only…

You’ve probably heard of TikTok. It’s the one of the most popular apps in the world and has been downloaded over a billion times. TikTok is an app where people create and share short videos (typically 15 seconds long) with music in the background. …