SubmitFinder: The Largest Music Promotion Contact Database in the World
Over 30,000 verified radio stations, music blogs, podcasts, magazines and Spotify playlist curators in one searchable database — how it was built, what is inside it, and how independent artists use it to get heard.
Music promotion has always had the same bottleneck: contacts. Not talent, not budget, not even timing — contacts. Knowing which radio station plays your genre, which blog still publishes, which podcast takes unsigned submissions, and which Spotify curator answers a DM. SubmitFinder exists to remove that bottleneck permanently. It is the largest verified music promotion contact database in the world: over 30,000 outlets across radio, blogs, podcasts, magazines, music websites and Spotify playlist curators, all searchable, filterable and updated every single day.
What is actually inside the database
SubmitFinder holds more than 20,000 radio stations (FM, community, college and internet), thousands of music blogs and magazines, podcasts that accept unsigned artists, general music websites, and a dedicated section of Spotify playlist curators with live playlists. Every listing carries the fields an artist needs to act: outlet name, type, country, languages, genres, contact email or Instagram handle, phone number where one is published, submission page, response time, and whether submission is free.
Verified means verified
Anyone can scrape ten thousand URLs. The hard part is proving they still work. Every SubmitFinder listing is checked before it goes live and re-checked on a rolling schedule: links are requested, dead domains are removed, emails that bounce are dropped, and Spotify playlists are validated against the Spotify API so the cover art and follower count you see are real and current. If a playlist goes private or a station goes off air, the listing comes down. That is the difference between a database and a spreadsheet.
Search that matches how artists actually think
You do not think in database columns. You think "who plays melodic techno in Germany" or "which South African stations take Afrobeats". SubmitFinder search understands genre, country, language, outlet type, free-only, verified-only and response time — combined in any order. The AI assistant goes one step further: answer three questions about your music and it shortlists outlets from the directory that fit, ranked by how well they match.
Global by design
Most promotion tools are US-and-UK shaped. SubmitFinder is not. The directory covers the United States, Canada, the UK and Ireland, all of Western and Eastern Europe, South Africa, Kenya and East Africa, Nigeria and West Africa, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, and Asia. For an independent artist, the least competitive and highest-response outlets are almost always outside their home market — the database is built to surface them.
Spotify curators, treated properly
The Spotify curator section is its own product inside the product. Curator cards show the real playlist cover, the live follower count pulled from Spotify, whether the contact is an email or an Instagram handle, and a direct "Check playlist" button. You can filter by genre and follower tier, and sort by most followers or newest additions. No fake follower numbers, no dead playlists, no invented email addresses.
Free contacts, no paywalled emails
SubmitFinder does not sell contacts back to you one at a time. Create a free account and you get access to the whole directory: search it, open outlets, save favourites, and build collections per release. The information is public information, gathered, verified and organised — our job is the verification and the structure, not holding an email address hostage.
Built for campaigns, not one-off searches
Real promotion is a campaign, not a search. Collections let you group outlets per release — "UK indie radio", "lo-fi curators 1K–20K", "Kenya + South Africa radio" — and work them in daily batches. Public collections can be shared with the community, so artists in the same scene learn which outlets actually respond. The community section adds discussion, questions and results from artists running campaigns right now.
Why size matters, and why quality matters more
Scale is only useful if the data is clean. Ten thousand dead emails will damage your sender reputation faster than sending nothing at all. SubmitFinder's size gives you reach — enough outlets that every genre, language and territory is covered — while daily verification keeps the bounce rate low enough that your pitches land in inboxes rather than spam folders.
How to start today
Search your genre, add a country filter, and open the first twenty outlets that fit. Listen to or read each one, save them to a collection, then send twenty personalised pitches over the next week. That process, done with verified contacts, beats every mass-blast tool on the market — and it costs you nothing but time. Start with a search on SubmitFinder and build your list today.