Playlist Push vs Soundmango

Spotify for Artists says services that charge money to be “considered” for user playlists are strictly against Spotify's terms. On Playlist Push your money pays curators to review your track. Their terms put it this way:

When you pay for a campaign, you are paying for your song(s) to be reviewed; you are not paying for your song(s) to be placed on a playlist.

Their artist page calls it “a professional review and guaranteed consideration.” Each curator earns $1.25 to $15 per review and keeps it whether or not they add your track. That is paying for consideration.

On Soundmango you pay for promotion and the curator's feedback, with no per-pitch fees. Curators decide for themselves whether to add your track, and approved tracks have an estimated 99% chance of landing on at least one playlist.

A Spotify campaign on Playlist Push starts at $280 and can go past $1,000. By their own figure, the average campaign costs $550. The campaign runs until your budget is used up and every assigned curator has reviewed your track. Their terms say they don't offer refunds for paid campaigns “under any circumstances, including if you are an artist and have submitted a song that fails to be reviewed or fails to be placed on a playlist by a curator.” Budget left over when some curators never review your track goes into your Playlist Push wallet as credit for a future campaign.

On Soundmango you see one price before you pay, and you pay it once. If your track doesn't pass our quality review, no playlist fits it, or no curator takes on your campaign, you get every cent back to your payment method. If a curator doesn't deliver, we find a replacement at no extra cost or refund what wasn't delivered, and no curator earns anything until your campaign is complete.

Playlist Push describes some of the same things differently on different pages. Here is what each page says, in their own words.

Guarantees

Their artist page says: “You are paying for a professional review and guaranteed consideration.” The same page says a campaign can start two weeks before release, “so playlist adds are already secured and the song appears in them on day one.” Their terms of use say payment for a campaign “does not guarantee that your song(s) will be added to a playlist,” and their help center says curators are “not required or incentivized to add songs.”

Refunds

Their homepage and campaign pages describe an Artist Protection Fund: “If a curator does not review your track before the 14-day deadline, you automatically receive that money back as a credit to your account.” Their refund policy says “all purchases for Spotify and TikTok campaigns on PlaylistPush.com are final and cannot be refunded,” and their terms say they don't offer refunds “under any circumstances.” Read together, money a curator never uses comes back as credit for another Playlist Push campaign, and stays off your card.

When a campaign ends

Their artist page says a campaign “continues to run until your full budget has been utilized.” Their help center gives curators two to four weeks, and says campaigns keep running “until all assigned curators have provided their feedback.”

TikTok prices

Their pricing page lists TikTok campaigns as “Starting At $350.” Their help center says “The minimum cost for TikTok campaigns is $340.”

On Soundmango you see the price and what your campaign includes before you pay. If your track doesn't pass our quality review, no playlist fits it, or no curator takes on your campaign, you get every cent back to your payment method.

You pick the genres, moods, and languages that fit your track, and Playlist Push assigns the curators. You don't see the playlists first. Their help center says “our privacy policy with our curators prevents us from sharing this information,” so you learn a playlist's name when your track is added to it. You can't contact a curator, and you can't reply to their feedback.

On Soundmango you set your criteria once: the genres and a minimum follower count. Your track reaches only curators whose playlists fit, and when one passes, we bring it to the next. You don't choose individual playlists or curators. Every playlist is vetted one at a time and keeps being checked.

Most artists see their first reviews within 48 to 72 hours, by Playlist Push's own figure, and curators have two to four weeks to review your track. You get feedback from each curator who reviews it. Their terms say paying for a campaign “does not guarantee that a song will be added to any playlist on any streaming service,” and their help center says curators are “not required or incentivized to add songs.” Playlist Push doesn't publish how often curators add the tracks they review. Once a track is added, curators “can leave it on for as long or as short as they wish.”

Soundmango can't make a curator say yes either. Curators always decide for themselves. You get the curator's feedback and promotion for your track within the duration you chose, and approved tracks have an estimated 99% chance of landing on at least one playlist.

Spotify's User Guidelines don't allow “accepting or offering to accept any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the name of an account or playlist or the content included on an account or playlist,” and Spotify for Artists says charging money to be considered for user playlists is against Spotify's terms. Playlist Push's curator page says: “You are paid to listen and give thoughtful feedback, not to add songs.” Artists are told they pay for “a professional review and guaranteed consideration.” That is paying for consideration.

On Soundmango you're paid for a completed campaign: your star ratings of the track and a promotional post we draft for you, published under your name on our partner site. You listen first, see what the campaign pays, and choose whether to take it on. Adding a track to your playlist is always your own call.

Curators earn $1.25 to $15 per song review. The amount comes from a Reputation Score built on your playlists' followers and active listeners and your activity on Playlist Push, and it's calculated when you submit the review. You request a payout once your balance reaches $20, to a bank account, Venmo, or PayPal, and it arrives within four business days. The program isn't available in 49 countries, including India, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, and the Philippines, because their payout provider can't reach a bank account there. Their help center says breaking the guidelines can mean removal and forfeiture of your balance.

On Soundmango you see what a campaign pays before you take it on. Once it's complete, your earnings are yours, and payouts arrive in your bank account automatically every month.

Some of what Playlist Push tells curators reads differently from one page to the next. Here is what each page says, in their own words.

Payouts

Their curator program page promises “Instant payouts.” Their help center says a requested payout “will reach your account within 4 business days,” and their article on the benefits of becoming a curator says you “will be paid weekly.”

Reviewing every track

Their help center says “you are not required to listen to and review every song you receive.” Their list of reasons a curator account gets removed includes “Not reviewing songs / become an inactive curator.”

On Soundmango payouts arrive in your bank account automatically every month. You take on as many or as few campaigns as you like, and once you accept one, you deliver it within its duration.

Each playlist needs at least 1,000 followers, 30 active monthly listeners, and 1% of its followers listening each month. A playlist that falls under 30 monthly listeners is removed and can't be reconsidered for at least six months. Tracks that expire in your account cost Reputation Score points unless you skip them within seven days, and inactive curators can be removed.

On Soundmango only campaigns that fit your playlist reach you, and we review every track before you hear it. A campaign takes a few minutes: a few star ratings, then one click to publish the post we draft. Take on as many or as few campaigns as you like. Keep your playlist honest and your listeners real, and it stays listed.