Recent updates

November 13, 2026

It's only been a week since the last update, but I've been on a tear :)

The big one is four new free tools, plus design/layout upgrades.

New free tools

  • EPK Builder: search for your artist on Spotify and we'll build you a press kit with your bio, stats, songs, albums and EPs, press quotes, video, photos, shows, links and contact details. Here's an example: https://www.submithub.com/epk/andtilly
    • Publish it at submithub.com/epk/your-name, in light or dark with your own accent color
    • It keeps itself up to date from Spotify, so new releases and shows get added automatically (you can turn that off)
    • "Write it for me" drafts a bio from scratch, or tidies up yours without changing what you said
    • Pages are translated, and you can see how many views your EPK gets and where they come from
    • 10 published EPKs for free, 100 with SubmitHub Plus. Plus users can also download their EPK as a PDF
  • ISRC Finder: paste a Spotify track or album and get the ISRC, UPC, label and release date
    • Albums list the ISRC for every track
  • Song Link Finder: paste a Spotify track and get the same song on Apple Music, YouTube, YouTube Music, Deezer, Tidal, SoundCloud, Amazon Music and Pandora. I've been using this on the backend for our playlist syncing, so it was fairly easy to flip a public switch!
  • Royalties Calculator: type in your streams, pick the platform, listener country and deal type, and see roughly what that pays across seven platforms
    • You can add a few platforms together to get a combined total
    • Or flip it around: tell it how much you want to earn and it'll tell you how many streams that takes

A few changes across all of our tools:

  • You can now search by name instead of pasting a link (requested by Jerry). It works on the ISRC Finder, Song Link Finder, Popularity Checker, Bot Checker, Playlist Checker, What's My Genre, AI Song Checker and Playlist Finder using Spotify's search API
  • The ISRC Finder and Song Link Finder keep a history of your lookups (10 a day for free, 100 with Plus)
  • Daily limits now reset at midnight UTC instead of counting a rolling 24 hours. People were getting confused about when their checks came back, so the limit box now tells you ⏰

My Artists

  • My Artists got a redesign. Each artist shows their songs, approvals and spend, plus their latest bot check, popularity score, EPK status and videos
  • If you've got 4 or more artists you can sort and search, same as My Songs
  • Artist pages have new EPK and Videos tabs (only you can see them).
    • The Videos tab lists every song with its videos and a "Make me 3 videos" button
  • "Your Artist Link" is now "Your Artist Pages": a link in bio for fans, and an EPK for press and bookers

Curator profiles

  • Profiles got a big overhaul. They open on three tiles (Submissions, Approved, Time to share) with Quality and Engagement side by side
  • No more tabs for visitors - it's one page with detail, about, recent shares and ratings
  • Every stat now says what time period it covers. Approval rate is measured over the last 500 premium and the last 500 standard responses separately
  • If you open a curator with a genre filter on, the approval rate and Spotify listeners reflect those genres
    • Listeners are weighted across the playlists they actually use for that genre, instead of just showing their biggest playlist
  • User reviews got a restyle and now sit above recent shares

Submitting

  • Quick pitches were previously a single line and can now be up to 5 lines
    • The confirm step shows you which curators get a personalized pitch and which get the default
  • Playlist Finder shows your song's genres before you submit, and you can change them if they look wrong
  • Hot or Not: cancelling a premium request always works now, and anything left over that doesn't make a whole credit comes back as free ratings

Holiday music

  • Christmas songs in Packages only go to curators who accept Holiday Music. On December 26 I'll close them out and refund whatever is left
  • Curators with a Christmas playlist got a prompt to turn the genre on. Also I set it so that Holiday Music doesn't count toward your genre limit

SubmitHub Ads

  • You can now target by gender in the Age & Gender section
  • The Regions table shows "Opened in app" for each country, so you can see which ones are sending taps that go nowhere
  • You can switch an ad from your own FB/IG page back to a SubmitHub genre page
  • When an ad is struggling, we now rewrite its primary texts as well as adding new videos

Ads Studio

  • There are two types of videos: for ads, and for social media. The former puts the artwork at the end, while social videos keep it about the video clips + text
  • On a Link's Videos tab, each video has an "Add to ad" button, and "Restart ad" replaces "Run it again" - this was confusing people a lot, so hopefully it's clearer now!

Links

  • The dashboard has search (by title or slug, including archived Links) and a sortable ads table
  • Analytics use 28 day windows to match Spotify for Artists
  • The ads popup in your Analytics tab groups everything under its campaign - way easier to read
  • Link descriptions (under the title) can now be 150 characters (up from 100)

Miscellaneous

  • SubmitHub Direct: the buyer gets a warning if you already have that song from an earlier submission
  • Copyrights: you can download the PDF from your copyright dashboard without having to open the copyright page, and approval CSV exports include copyright columns (thanks Rufus)
  • Label accounts are now fully closed (5 years later!)
    • These profiles were inactive, but for former label members the homepage was messy
    • Any remaining balances were paid out as credits to each owner - there were actually ~10,000 credits waiting to be cashed out!
  • Genre analytics moved to /music-genres - this was a bit of an SEO play. No one's searching for "genre analytics" but they are searching for "music genres"
  • New favicon - it's round!
    • I did this with SEO in mind, so that Google would stop squeezing a square into a circle. It doesn't seem to have worked, yet...
    • On the plus side, all my other search metrics seem to be moving up and to the right - that big spike in the last ~2 days is due to SEO optimizations I made

What's next

Still got a potential revamp of our influencer offering on the top of my mind! On top of that, I'll continue to work on unifying all the various tools I've built into an easy-to-use UX.