SubmitHub vs Soundmango
An honest side-by-side comparison with everything you need to find out which platform suits you best.
- Playlist match or refund
- No fake streams or followers
- 100% Spotify compliant
For artists
Soundmango is best if you want your track on real playlists with real listeners, and your money back if we can't find a match.
SubmitHub is best if you want to pick your own curators and hear back from each one.
Soundmango vs SubmitHub at a glance
Minimum price
Soundmango
Starting from $14
SubmitHub
Packages from $96
Chance of a playlist placement
Soundmango
99% playlist placement rate
SubmitHub
About 30% according to their website
Refund policy
Soundmango
100% money back if we can't find a match for your track
SubmitHub
No refunds once you've used credits
Track matching algorithm
Soundmango
Our AI matches your track to highly relevant playlists
SubmitHub
Matching on the tags you list
Playlist quality
Soundmango
Real listeners and engagement on every playlist, continuously checked 24/7
SubmitHub
No published listener minimum
How Soundmango works
Post your offer
Set the criteria for playlists you want your track on and pick a duration. It takes less than a minute.
A curator accepts
We match your track with the best fitting curators who meet your criteria and keep searching until we find a good match.
99% placement probability
Nearly every track lands on a playlist. If we can't match your track with a fitting curator, you get 100% of your money back.
How your track finds its playlists
On Soundmango
Your track reaches only curators whose playlists sound like it. We analyze your track and compare it with the tracks already on every playlist that meets your criteria.
You set your criteria once and leave the searching to us, so you don't have to pick playlists or curators manually.
On SubmitHub
You describe your track by listing its genres, moods, and similar artists. Then you browse SubmitHub's curators and pick each one yourself, at one to four credits per curator, or you buy a package and SubmitHub picks them for you.
It's on you to get that right: when curators keep saying your track doesn't fit, SubmitHub's guide says your genres, similar artists, or mood are probably off, and calls that the most common reason for low approval rates.
Packages start by checking how well each curator's genre preferences overlap with the track, and a playlister can list up to 15 genres for each playlist.
How Soundmango matches
Genres and subgenres
Every style your track blends, down to the subgenre
Acoustic or electronic
Unplugged, electronic, or anywhere in between
Tempo and key
Your BPM and key, compared to the playlist's tracks
Mood
How your track feels, from melancholic to euphoric
Energy
How hard your track hits, from laid-back to intense
Vocal character
The range and tone of the voice, from soft and airy to raspy and powerful
Language
The language you sing in, or whether it's instrumental
Leading instruments
Which key instruments carry your track
Track duration
How long your track runs, compared to the playlist's average
Explicit lyrics
Clean or explicit, so clean playlists stay clean
Similar artists
The artists your track sounds closest to
Similar tracks
The tracks on each playlist that sound most like yours
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Trade secrets
Additional internal metrics we keep to ourselves
How SubmitHub matches
Genre
The genres you list, compared to the ones each curator lists
Mood
The moods you list for your track
Similar artists
The artists you list as similar to yours
Lyrics
Whether your track has lyrics, and in which language
If you don't get results
On Soundmango
If your track doesn't pass our quality review, if no playlist is a good match, or if no curator accepts your campaign, you get 100% of your money back to your original payment method.
If a curator accepts your campaign but doesn't deliver, we find a replacement at no extra cost or refund what wasn't delivered.
On SubmitHub
On SubmitHub, credits you've spent on submissions or ads can't be refunded as money, according to their refund policy. A premium credit is spent once the curator has listened and replied, whether they approve your track or decline it.
If a curator doesn't reply within 72 hours, or skips the listening and feedback SubmitHub asks for, the credit goes back into your SubmitHub account for use on a new submission.
Which one is right for you?
Choose Soundmango if
- You want your track on real playlists with real listeners.
- You want a 99% chance of a playlist placement once your track is approved.
- You want to pay for results, and get every cent back if we can't find a match.
- You want to spend your time on music and leave finding the right curators to us.
Choose SubmitHub if
- You want to choose each curator yourself.
- Your track isn't out yet.
- You want a reply from every curator you pitch.
- You want to reach blogs and influencers as well as playlist curators.
Questions about SubmitHub and Soundmango
Get your track on real Spotify playlists
Soundmango is a playlist promotion marketplace with a 99% chance of landing on a playlist. If no curator fits your track, you get 100% of your money back.
For curators
Soundmango is best if you want to earn more money from your playlist with less work, and listen to fewer but more relevant tracks.
SubmitHub is best if you enjoy listening to a steady stream of new music and replying to the artists behind it.
Soundmango vs SubmitHub at a glance
Earnings
Soundmango
$7 to $750 per campaign
SubmitHub
Your cut of each credit isn't published
Time spent per campaign
Soundmango
Less than a minute
SubmitHub
A 60+ second listen and a written reply
Payouts
Soundmango
Automatic, every month
SubmitHub
You have to request each payout manually
Track matching
Soundmango
Our AI matches highly relevant tracks to your playlist
SubmitHub
Matching on the tags artists list
Track acceptance rate
Soundmango
60% on average
SubmitHub
30% according to their website
Obligation to reply
Soundmango
None. Accept or decline campaigns at your own pace
SubmitHub
Reply to 90% within 48 hours
On SubmitHub
What you're paid for, and what it means for your playlist
Spotify's user guidelines don't allow accepting any compensation, financial or otherwise, to influence the content included on a playlist. SubmitHub's guide for playlisters says that with a high-quality playlist you can charge a small fee for considering music. On SubmitHub the credit pays you for listening to a premium submission and replying, whether you approve or decline. That is being paid for consideration. SubmitHub's own line is that curators share tracks because they like them.
On Soundmango you're paid for a completed campaign, your ratings and a promotional post, and adding the track to your playlist is your own call.
On SubmitHub
How you earn
On SubmitHub you choose a price of one to four credits per submission, and you earn from each premium submission you reply to. SubmitHub's public pages don't say what share of each credit reaches you, and their terms say earned funds may be cashed out upon your request. At their average approval rate of about 30%, around 70% of the tracks you reply to are ones you decline.
On Soundmango you see what a campaign pays before you take it on, and no curator earns until the campaign is complete. Your earnings are paid out automatically every month.
On SubmitHub
What is asked of you
SubmitHub's quality score sets the pace. You gain points by replying to 90% of submissions within 48 hours, averaging more than 90 seconds of listening per track, and sharing approved tracks within five days, and you lose points when your share rate drops under 1% or rises over 50%. Each premium submission needs at least 60 seconds of listening, a reply within 72 hours, and 20 words on a decline, or the credit goes back to the artist.
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: you rate the track from 1 to 5 stars on a few parameters, then press Publish on the post we've drafted. Once you accept a campaign, you deliver it within its duration.
Which one is right for you?
Choose Soundmango if
- You want to get paid automatically every month for the playlist you already run.
- You want to hear tracks that already fit your playlist.
- You don't want to spend a whole afternoon listening to tracks for a dollar or two each.
- You want to see what a campaign pays before you say yes.
Choose SubmitHub if
- You enjoy listening to a lot of new tracks and replying to each one.
- You also run a blog or a social channel and want submissions for it in the same place.
Questions about SubmitHub and Soundmango
Get paid for the playlist you already run
Waitlist curators get onboarded first, so your playlist is live the day the first campaign opportunities go out.
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