 A couple of weeks ago, I made a video telling you guys how you could find playlists in 2021 using some of the same methods that I have been developing over the last couple of months. And within that video, I talked about a tool called Playlist Supply. Since me doing that video, I've had a lot of you reach out to me asking me for deeper opinions on Playlist Supply. Do I like it? Do I really think it's useful? Would I really recommend it to an artist who is trying to add Playlisting to their marketing arsenal? And the answer to all those questions is yes. So what I've decided to do is to take this video and do a deep dive review into Playlist Supply and let you guys know why exactly I think it's beneficial to the independent artists or the artists in general. And why I think it's the next tool you should add to your marketing toolbox. Let's get into it. It's the map. What's going on? It's your man Kory and today's episode is all about a tool called Playlist Supply. Now Playlist Supply is this data scraping tool that's used to find playlists on Spotify. It's a really helpful tool that I've been using for the last, I would say like five or six months or so. My team likes it. I like it. And it's made a lot of the things that we've had to do around playlists seem just super, super simple and super, super easy. So what exactly is Playlist Supply? Playlist Supply is this tool that allows you to search through playlists on Spotify, using different keywords that you are searching. And if you've been following me for the last couple of years or so, you know that there is a manual method that you can use to find playlists on Spotify and that is to type in keywords in the platform and then look for playlists that match those keywords. Playlist Supply is pretty much that process done on steroids. You know, so the time that it would take you to do that Playlist Supply can get it done in probably a fraction of the time. And the owner of it, Benjamin Stein created the platform in order to, as he puts it, bridge the gap between independent artists and playlists curators and playlists networks. He created it to give the artists a fair advantage within that space and to help them not get finesse as much as he possibly can, which I got to admit, that's a pretty dope mantra to have behind your company. And even though we don't offer playlists anymore as an agency, it's something that we haven't done for like the last maybe like three months or so as me making this video. This tool is still something that I do fairly use whenever we do find ourselves in a client situation when we need to find playlists or whenever I'm helping an artist friend of mine find playlists or whenever we're talking to anybody that's within the network and they're looking for something reliable to find playlists on. Before we get into Playlist Supply, come and follow me on Instagram and TikTok. Links will be in the description below. Come talk to me, come engage with me, come give me some video ideas, all of that good stuff. Now with that being said, let's go ahead and get into it. First thing that I want to get into is price because I know you want to know how much it is. You know what I'm saying? I don't even care about none of the features if I can't afford it and I bill you. Out the gate, Playlist Supply is pretty cheap. It's only $19.99 a month. Compare that to chart metrics of $140 a month or $1,400 a year or submit hub which makes you pay for credits just to submit the song to the curator. I got to say man, that's a pretty good steal. $20 a month isn't anything and when I talked to the owner, once again Benjamin Stein had a conversation with him and I asked him like why is the platform so cheap? You could at least be charging like $50 for this. And the way that he described it to me is that he wants to keep it cheap for the independent artists because once again he's trying to bridge that gap between artists and Playlist Curators and make that whole process as transparent and easy as possible. He feels like in order to do that, he has to keep the platform cheap so that way it can truly benefit and help artists. And once again, that's pretty far. I can't even lie. As of me making this video is $19.99. Now you know how these tech companies are, man. You know things starting to get popping and prices go up. But based on that conversation, I don't feel like it's going up anytime soon for to stick around in $19.99 for the things that you are going to get out of it. Once again, it is a pretty good deal, especially if you're someone that is okay with paying the hundred and forty dollars a month chart metric or someone that has spent more than $20 of credits on submit hub and you probably haven't even gotten the 10th of what you would get out of Playlist supply. So just out of price alone, I got to give it a 10 out of 10. Next thing I want to get into about Playlist supply is the features and for this, we got to get into it. Like I got to show you what you can do over here. So here we are inside Playlist supply. And as you can see, it's not a complicated looking tool. Like it pretty much looks like a really fancy Excel sheet and out the gate. I'm not going to lie to you. I already like that about this because some of those other platforms can get pretty confusing if you're not used to working around a data analysis tool. So once again, out the gate, big feature of it is just how simple it is to use. And as you can see, the big thing about Playlist supply is their keyword searching feature, which is pretty much the manual process, which we already know works, but on steroids. So what you can do is you can come here and type in any type of keyword. You can see I was looking for trap wrapping little Yachty for a client that we were working with a couple of weeks ago. But you can search artist names. You can search genre names. You can search events. You can search games. You can search anything and I recommend you search anything and see if there's a playlist that makes sense for on on Spotify that you can find with Playlist supply. Now, the other really cool thing about play supplies playlist search feature is their criteria function. And what you can do with this is you can break down your search based on playlists that have one of these things in their bio. So a social media link and email and Instagram handle or Twitter handle. You can also break it down based on playlists that are placing similar artists to each other. So what's really powerful about this is that if you've ever done any type of playlists pitching before, you know that one, the most time consuming part of the process is finding the playlists which we'll get into. And then also that is the risk that you could do all this research to find a playlist that you can't even find the curator to like they have like a Mickey Mouse profile picture and like you just you can't find an email. You can't find an Instagram handle. You can't find anything. So with this criteria, it makes sure that you're not wasting your energy and your resources digging through playlists that don't even matter to you and that can't even be reached. So you could come in here, right? You could type in if you're a rapper, you could type in hip hop and then you could search it out just based on playlists that have an email in the bio, let's say your email person or once again, a social media link if you are the DM type of person, whatever works for you, you can make it work here and then you just click search and that's literally it goes through and it finds a playlist for you. Now on average, this tends to take about 10 to 15 minutes depending on how many playlists match the search criteria that you put in, but that is massive amounts of time. Say compared to how much it would take you if you did this process manually and when it's going on, I can go set up my ads. I can go look at some other stuff I have going on. I can go make me something to eat. I can do everything but be digging through Spotify looking for playlists. Now while that's searching, another thing that I do want to talk about is the fact that they also let you export these playlists outside the platform. I know submit hub doesn't so the fact that let you build up your own Excel sheet or your own PDF sheet is you can share with your marketing team. You can share with your distribution company. You can share with your manager or whoever is helping you and say, Hey, here's a list of playlists. I think will match me because of all these different criteria. I search go and use it. Go and do something with it, which is which is pretty dope. If you ask me, it also allows you to build up your placing network off platform pretty quickly because you can just build up multiple Excel sheets that match different search criteria. Maybe you have one Excel sheet for each keyword that you've been searching and looking for and you can just set those up pretty easily. You download it, export it, and then you're good to go. That was also one of the things that I asked been about when talking about player supply. Like, I literally asked him like, Yo, what's stopping the artist from just paying $20 one time, building up this massive playlist list and then just never coming back and using player supply again. And he basically was like, that's something that they prepare for and they don't mind, you know what I'm saying? Because they know what a demo is and I know that most of you artists aren't don't need to pay $20 a month for something like this. So it's meant more so to be something that's here for when you do need it rather than something that forces you to use it month over month. If you don't really need to be doing it. So I think that's a lot better than paying for something like chart metric for most of you. If you're an artist has only been using chart metric to find playlist, you know what I'm saying? Then you're paying $140 to do something at a slightly subpar level when you could be paying $20 for something that does what that does much more efficiently. You know what I'm saying? So you save money and you get it done faster. You know what I'm saying? It's not a win-win to me. And once it's done searching, it pretty much looks something like this. So you can see the name of the playlist over on the left side, how many followers it has, how many tracks on the playlist, who owns the playlist and then here is that email, right? All of these playlists have an email attached to them, which was my search criteria for this. And it also has the description of the playlist that's already been set here. And then once you're done, you could just come over here, click CSV, click Excel, click PDF and then export this list and then transfer it over to wherever you keep your teams documents and all your stuff like this. And that's pretty much it. That's player supply in a net shell. So these features are probably the things that I'm the most excited about when it comes to player supply is the fact that you can find playlists based on if they have a social media handle or not. If they have that email in the description, if they link to an Instagram or Twitter, if they're placing similar artists so that way you can keep placing yourself in playlists around similar art to you and get to hacking the Spotify algorithm. The fact that you can search through playlists based on different keywords, you know, genres, artists, games, movies, things that you think may make sense for your genre that could have a place built around it. You can search all that within playlist supply and it's much, much faster than most of the other tools and a lot cheaper. Once again, when you break things down by the number. So there it is. That's pretty much player supply. Like I said, it's been one of my go-to arsenals in my marketing tool box for like the last five or six months or so. Whenever I find myself in a situation where I need to find playlists, whether that be for a client or friend or someone in the network or a personal project or something like that. I use it. My team uses it and we all like it for the most part. If an artist has ever paid for a playlisting list, if you've ever paid a playlist picture hundreds of dollars to put you on playlists and this tool is for you. You know, I've said it time and time again and I'll say it again again and again and again. Playlisting is not hard. It is extremely easy. If you are willing to put the time in to find these playlists, you could build up a playlist curator network that is no different than what any of these independent playlists curators or pitchers are pitching to you. You know, the placing world is small and if you do to do diligence, you will find the exact same place they're using. Trust me. Like, trust me. Very, very, very, very, very small world once you get into playlisting. So if you're willing to spend $20 and then take 15 or 30 or 45 minutes to build out a massive playlist list of curators using a tool like Playlist Supply then you could very easily save yourself hundreds and hundreds and thousands of dollars over time and I think that that's the biggest benefit of this tool is not necessarily like the work that it can do for you. You know, which is great and all like I like shit being done for me but the money that it can save you if you're willing to learn how to use it the right way. It's amazing. You know what I'm saying? Because any any any real playlist pictures going to charge you a couple hundred dollars. But once again, if you have the time you can find all the players they're using. Like trust me like a good month two months. You know what I'm saying? Up digging through the platform. You got it. You don't even need those guys anymore. If you are interested in Playlist Supply there will be a link in the description below. Go and check that out. Sign up. If you feel like it's something that will make sense for you and your team. And once again, if you're paying people for playlist list or paying playlist pictures. Just go down there and click that link. Go use it. I'm also curious to see what you guys think for those of you who are using Playlist Supply already. Do you like it? Do you not like it? Do you love it? Why do you love it? Are you using something else? And if so, what is that something else? Let us know in the comment section below. Other than that, if you feel like you learned anything today, please like and share this video. Hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn't want you guys to miss anything. Once again, my name is Kory and I'll see y'all next time.