What it costs to be considered
Paid submission is now the default for blogs, curators and video sites. Here is what each of the main routes charges, what it promises in return, and which promises are actually written down.
Getting a human to listen to or watch your work increasingly costs money. That is not automatically a scam, but the terms vary enormously, and only some of them are published clearly. Prices below were checked on 10 September 2026.
SubmitHub
Credits "start at $1 each, and go as low as $0.78 each depending on how many you purchase". You also receive two standard credits every four hours, capped at two held at a time; standard credits carry no response guarantee.
The guarantee sits on premium credits. To keep your credit, the recipient must respond within 72 hours, listen for at least 60 seconds, and either approve the song or write 20 or more words of feedback. Otherwise, in SubmitHub's words, "you get your credit back to be used again."
Refunds on money, as opposed to credits, are narrow: requests must come within 24 hours of purchase, nothing is refundable once credits are used, and credits expire twelve months after purchase.
Note for accuracy: several third-party guides quote "48 hours / 20 seconds / 10 words" for the premium rules. SubmitHub's own page says 72 hours, 60 seconds, 20 words.
Groover
One Grooviz is €1, and contacting a curator or professional costs 2 Grooviz, so roughly €2 per submission. Top-tier contacts cost 4 to 6. Curators have seven days to respond; if they do not, the Grooviz are refunded automatically.
Groover's own pages disagree with each other about pack discounts, one saying up to 20 per cent and another up to 24, so treat the exact saving as approximate.
Music video outlets
Promonews charges no submission fee on its submit page; it asks for the artist, title, video URL, stills and full credits. Its paid tier, Promonews PRO, costs £9.99 a month, £24.99 a quarter or £99 a year, and members get "priority getting submitted work on Promonews".
Directors Notes charges £47 for work under 40 minutes and £77 for features, non-refundable, via FilmFreeway, and states that its curation team responds within seven working days. Music videos are explicitly in scope.
Directors' Library requires a membership valid for twelve months, strictly non-refundable. Its rules are tight: nothing over 40 minutes, no works in progress or trailers, and only work released online within the past two months. It does not offer individual feedback and notifies outcomes within about ten working days.
Booooooom TV takes short films, animation and music videos for a non-refundable fee, reviews within five business days, and is currently closed to submissions for a site redesign, so it is off the list for now.
PR agencies
Almost no music PR agency publishes its rates. The exception we found is Cyber PR, whose own site says single campaigns start at $1,000. Every widely quoted range beyond that comes from third-party listicles rather than an agency's own pricing page, so we are not printing those numbers.
How to spend the first €100
Cheapest first: the free routes with published rules. Promonews costs nothing to submit to and Camerimage's music video competition charges no entry fee at all. Then paid submissions with a written response guarantee, where at least a non-response costs you nothing. Open-ended agency retainers come last, and only when there is something concrete to promote.
Source
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