How do I start a Grow With Us Campaign?

Follow these steps to start growing your Spotify or Soundcloud to reach new listeners and fans!

To activate a Grow With Us (GWU) campaign: 

1. Navigate to the Marketing drop down menu on the left side navigation pane & select Grow With Us.
2. Click on the pink "Create Campaign" button.
3. Choose the option of one-time (one campaign) or a subscription (continuous campaign) model.
4. Choose your budget - either one of the preset prices or a custom price. 
5. Name your campaign. We suggest giving a name that you can easily keep track of like the playlist name or artist page you are running the campaign for. 
6. Select the type of campaign:

   Spotify Follower Growth: focuses on either playlist or artist page followers

   Soundcloud Follower Growth: focuses on channel growth

   Soundcloud Stream Growth: focuses on specifically getting plays for your Soundcloud release

   Soundcloud Engagement: focuses on playlist & channel growth

7. Set the bid price. 
   • Bid price - the amount you will be charged per conversion/follower -- We suggest bidding between $.08 and $.15 for the best results!

     *bid prices change based on how many people are using the platform at that time. For example, if you bid $.05, it’s going to take a while to go through your campaign since you’re bidding low, whereas a $.14 bid price is a little over the median of $.10, so the campaign will run through quicker. 

8. Select the genre of the type of conversions you want to gain. For example, if you are growing an EDM playlist, select EDM (All).
9. Add the Spotify page URL or [part of the] Soundcloud channel URL that you wish to run the campaign for. For Spotify campaigns, the system will auto-generate a valid URI (you can disregard this part). This step is the most important because if the link is entered incorrectly, the campaign won't run.
   
   *Note that these links are unique for each page. Copy and paste them individually for each campaign that you run. DO NOT replace certain words like "track" in the URL just to match the URL format - copy the URL directly from the application.
   
   

   To find this information on Spotify on the Web app, go to the page of the playlist/user/artist you wish to promote.	Using the Spotify web browser, go to the page of the playlist/user/artist you wish to promote.
   Below the name, you will find a button with three small dots. Click on that and hover over to the "Share" tab which will open another drop down menu.	Go to the page's link in the browser's search bar and click "Copy"
   In the Share menu, select "Copy link to [artist/playlist]"	Paste this directly into the Artist Republik website where you left off.
   Paste this directly into the Artist Republik website where you left off.

   
   
   • For Soundcloud channels, use your browser to go to the channel you wish to promote.
     • Copy PART of your Soundcloud URL as shown in bold below:
       https://soundcloud.com/artistrepublik/my-sample-song
     • Paste this into the field on the Artist Republik site where you left off. Make sure to paste only the part in bold, as your campaign will not be successful if this is not entered properly. 
10. Review your campaign details to ensure your campaign will run successfully.
11. Enter in your payment details (Credit Card or PayPal) and click "Pay"