Your Engagement Score is a measure of how active your audience is relative to other curators on SubmitHub. It's a single metric that lets very different curator types (Spotify playlisters, blogs, YouTube channels, radio, and more) be compared on a level footing, giving artists a sense of how much impact a share from you will have.
It's genre-specific
Your score is broken down by genre, because curators share different genres in different ways (a big playlist for one, a small one or a shout-out for another). When an artist is browsing without a genre selected, like the main curators list, we show your overall number. Once they pick a genre to submit to, we switch to your genre-specific number for that genre. For playlisters, we also surface which playlists you typically share that genre to.
What goes into a genre's score
We look at your last 90 days of shared approvals in that genre: how often you shared, where you shared them (including shout-outs), and how those placements perform. That's then ranked against other curators sharing the same genre, so the number is always relative to your peers rather than an absolute.
How your genres combine into an overall
The overall average is weighted by how often you share to each genre, not a flat average. A genre you rarely share to barely moves your overall number; a genre you share to constantly dominates it.
Does removing a low-engagement genre help?
Usually not much. Because the average is share-frequency-weighted, a genre you rarely share to is already barely counting, so removing it won't move the number the way you'd expect. The real levers are sharing more to your higher-engagement genres, or improving engagement in the ones you share to most. See the "How do I increase my engagement score?" article for more.
A note on social media
Peripheral social accounts (like a TikTok that isn't your main SubmitHub sharing channel) count for less than the platforms you actually share to through SubmitHub.
Want the deeper walkthrough?
We wrote a full write-up with worked examples. Read it here.