About the amazing rewards for Distrokid members
This post describes the rewards that are enjoyed by artists, music publishers, and record labels who distribute music on Distrokid. Distrokid is a leader in the music industry and highly recommended even by competitors.
Distrokid offers quite a number of rewards for members. These are mainly free and valuable services, which make it super easy for music creators to promote and manage their music right on the platform.
Furthermore, Distrokid is always adding new distribution platforms with monetization opportunities. Here is a list of the member rewards:
- Promote your music
- Special access.
- Enhance your music.
- Protect your music.
- Get heard now.
Distrokid member reward: promote your music
Promo cards
Free promo cards are generated with one click. Just choose the ones you like best.
Hyperfollow
Hyperfollow is a smart link page consisting of the major outlets to which the artist’s or band’s music is distributed. This is free and available for every music release. Htperfollow allows members to share a single link for many outlets.
Here’s how it works:
Spotify
– Fans will be automatically set to follow you on Spotify.
– Your music will be automatically added to the Spotify library of your fans.
– Your fans’ email addresses will be sent to you, allowing you to build an email list and market to them.
– Distrokid will automatically send an email to your fans when your album goes live. This enhances engagement and greater exposure for your music.
– You will have access to the geographic location of your fans. This is important to determine where a live tour or event could be held.
– You will be able to see the other music that your fans are listening to. This will help you to determine how to direct the genre of your next release.
– You will know how many people visited your HyperFollow page, and how many fans you’ve added.
Meme video generator
Generate a free promo video from one of six themes. Share and increase the visibility of your music.
Mini videos
These are free video templates that can be customized and used to promote one’s music.
Vizy video generator
Vizy video generator is a paid music video generator. Think of the savings that artists can enjoy by being able to quickly and easily generating engaging music videos to accompany their release. These can be then posted to instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and other platforms.
Distrokid’s free service for artists and labels to connect
Distrokid offers a free service called Upstream. It allows artists and labels to connect.
Distorkid Social Phone
A paid SMS service allowing for SMS marketing to fans.
Distrokid member reward: special access
Special access is a program that provides ease of access and information about important music-related sites. These include:
Spotify for artists
Distrokid provides integrated access, pre-release notification, profile management and other features.
Apple Music for artists
Integration with Apple Music and iTunes to improve marketing and promotion.
YouTube official artist channel
Official YouTube artist channel is provided, giving access to the world’s largest video marketing platform.
Other features
Other special access features include Audiomack connection, promotion on Twitch, Twitch affiliate program, and official artist bio across channels.
Distrokid member reward: Enhance your music
Distrokid’s enhance your music feature provides for lyric synchronization for various social media platforms; adding credits to one’s releases (list of persons who contributed to the release); and a free music analysis robot that gives feedback on the release.
Distrokid member reward: protect your music
Distrokid provides the innovative Distrolock that protects artists’ music from unauthorized downloads and Vault, which provides free and unlimited backups of one’s music.
Distrokid member reward: helpful when needed
Helpful when needed includes the following four services:
- Move music on and off various services.. This is ideal when changes or updates are needed.
- spotify URL finder.
- Lookup Apple ID.
- Exempt selected videos from YouTube’s money claims.
Distrokid member reward: Get heard now
Social network
Get heard now currently comprises of three products. The first is a music social network that is designed for members to interact with each other. Members can post their latest music and join groups for greater acceleration in the music industry. It is free.
Wheel of Playlists
This allows the artist to submit their music to Distrokid’s new playlist on Spotify. If successful this means greater exposure for one’s music.
Spotify playlists by Distrokid
Members can post their music to Distrokid playlists and get voted on to specific playlists. This means greater exposure of the music. Anyone can listen to the music and vote. Music with the greatest number of votes will be added to a Spotify playlist. This means even greater exposure and opportunity for earning royalties.
Conclusion
Distrokid is highly respected in the music industry, even by competitors. THe company is always looking for and adding new monetization channels to benefit artists and thus increase royalties.
This site uses Distrokid as a distribution source and is satisfied overall that they have kept their side of the bargain. The only flaw is payouts are problematic since the company’s payment processor does not pay to all areas of the world.
We will address how this can be fixed in an upcoming post.