The 7 Best Automated Ad Platforms for Musicians

If you just want the list, here it is:

1. Intellijend
2. SubmitHub Links
3. SoundLink
4. Hypeddit
5. SymphonyOS
6. SongFly (SongTools)
7. ToneDen

For some background, keep reading…

If you’re an indie artist who’s thought about marketing your music over the past few years, you’ve probably stumbled across the concept of Meta ads. At this point, you might even be tired of hearing about it, because music marketing people (including me) talk about Meta ads ad nauseam.

Guilty as charged. But the reason we talk about it is because it works. Meta ads, done right, get music heard. I’ve personally driven millions of streams for artists with this approach. Yeah, it costs money, but it’s also one of the best two or three ways of getting music in front of an engaged, targeted audience, and it’s repeatable. You can build a system around it.

Unfortunately, a bunch of artists hear something like this, get kind of excited, and then try Meta ads themselves… only to screw something up and see their ads totally flop. It sucks, but it’s understandable. The Meta ecosystem is complicated. Ads Manager itself is about as intuitive and easy to use as the control panel on the Starship Enterprise. Probably much worse, actually—and it changes all the time.

This is where automated ad platforms come in.

Over the past few years—and especially in the last couple—I’ve seen tons of these tools spring up. They all have their own angles, and they each work a little differently, but the basic idea is that they simplify Meta ads for musicians .They either totally take care of the whole process, or they streamline it, and then walk you through it while holding your hand.

As a music marketer, I’ve been asked about these tools a lot. So I decided to just try a bunch and see how they worked, and also how they stacked up against each other. This article is my attempt at showing you what I’ve learned.

Here are the seven best automated ad platforms for musicians in 2026.

But first, a few notes for context:

The order of this list is mostly arbitrary. In other words, it’s based more on vibes than anything else. That’s because…

My results shouldn’t be taken as definitive proof of how good each platform is. Most often, content is the primary factor in how well an ad campaign performs—and, in honesty, I didn’t put all that much effort into most of my ad content. I mostly just wanted to see how these platforms worked, so I just threw together ads to go through the process.

Also…

My ratings are mostly vibes. I’ve given each platform some number of stars (out of five) for Results, Ease, Dashboards / Data, and Breadth of features, mostly just based on my feeling while using each one.

I think the categories are pretty self-explanatory, but just to clarify: Breadth of features refers to how much other stuff the platform does outside of just ads to a song. Some of these platforms are just designed for the sort of marketing I was testing, but many of them only do that as one bit out of a bunch of things, and I wanted to acknowledge that.

These platforms are being updated all the time. Seriously. I tried SymphonyOS, for example, like four or five months ago, and I’ve already had their team reach out and tell me to try it again because they’ve changed some targeting stuff.

I’ll try to keep this post up to date, but let’s be real, this space moves faster than Mario after eating a red mushroom, so it’s going to be tough. Don’t take my words as written in stone; definitely click through and make sure things are still relevant.

And, last thing…

In almost all cases, I’d still recommend you learn how to do Meta ads yourself. After trying a bunch of these, I think that in general, they often get you like 80% of the way there and deliver okay results. But there’s a big difference between an okay campaign and a killer campaign. These platforms rarely deliver the latter—but it’s the killer campaigns that really build audiences.

Ads are unintuitive, but they aren’t rocket science. You can start with these platforms, but over the long-term, I’d still recommend skipping the middle men and learning ads yourself.

Okay, with all of that said, let’s get into it.

1. Intellijend

Ad Spend	Conversions	CPR	Spotify Saves*
$152.04	186	$0.82	328

*Saves obviously include saves from other sources, but I use this as a proxy for how the ads translate to actual engagement on Spotify.

My campaign:

I enjoyed the process a lot, but my results were okay at best. You can see maybe a little streaming spike in the campaign’s early days, but overall, things were pretty expensive. In the platform’s defense, I wasn’t using it to its strengths. I used a “Steady Spend” approach rather than a front-loaded budget—and my song had been out for nearly a year before I promoted it.

You can read my full review of my campaign here.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐⭐⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ✅
• Your ad account ❌

Why I like it:

Two reasons. First, it’s probably the prettiest platform, just in terms of UI design (and I’m a sucker for aesthetics).

Second, and more importantly, it’s designed for exactly the sort of advertising I’m doing: Meta ads for Spotify streams. So all of the features are made with that end in mind. For instance, you can chart a song’s popularity score on the same graph as your ad spend to visualize the impact; you can look at real examples of other artists’ ads; you can track playlist saves, etc.

What it’s best for:

Using Jend’s approach to ads. Admittedly, I don’t use his approach in most of my campaigns, but it’s nice that the platform also has a “Steady Spend” option.

Price:

It’s a monthly subscription at $39 / month (plus any ad spend)

2. SubmitHub Links

Ad Spend	Conversions	CPR	Playlist Saves
$113	512	$0.22	491

My campaign:

Over a few weeks, I racked 491 saves on my Christian folk playlist. That playlist ended up driving about 1,609 streams over the course of the next eight months, which is about as tangible a result as I’ve gotten across all of these automated ad platforms.

And in my experience running hundreds of playlist campaigns myself, the cost efficiency is actually solid. I’ve seen better CPRs, sure, but $0.22 is pretty solid.

You can read my detailed review of my campaign here.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ✅
• Your ad account ❌

Why I like it:

It’s super easy to use – you don’t even have to make the creative yourself. And it works impressively well, probably because SubmitHub is running the ads through their own highly-trained ad accounts.

What it’s best for:

Building playlists. If you aren’t building playlists, then this probably isn’t for you. But if you are, then it’s the simplest option out there.

Price:

Free (you pay for the ad spend)

3. SoundLink

Ad Spend	Conversions	CPR	Spotify Saves*
$140	755	$0.18	321

*Saves obviously include saves from other sources, but I use this as a proxy for how the ads translate to actual engagement on Spotify.

My campaign:

The first image up there is the data from the song I was advertising. The second image is from my entire Audience tab, and it shows my growth in followers over the same time period.

While you see maybe a bit of a streaming bump on the song, the increase in follower growth rate while the campaign was live was much clearer. That’s because the landing pages SoundLink creates prompt people to opt-in to following you when they click through.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐⭐⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ✅
• Your ad account ❌

Why I like it:

These guys know marketing. They aren’t running cover art ads and they’re not leaving anything to chance; the ads they make are viral-proven and virtually guaranteed to get clicks.

To be honest, that’s also what I don’t love about the platform; it feels too “internet-y” to me, and not really representative of any individual artist’s brand. But there’s no denying it works.

What it’s best for:

Cheap clicks and followers on Spotify. They run everything for you from inside of their own ad accounts, so you don’t have to worry about setup at all (including making any sort of video ad). Their landing pages are built to prompt people to follow your profile when they click through—which, in my experience, leads to the weird sort of disconnect of getting more followers than actual streams.

I’m so mixed on this one. Overall, it was one of the most effective campaigns I ran. It also felt the least aligned with my brand, and it was a campaign over which I had very little control.

Price:

I’ve been digging into this, and I actually can’t tell how much they’re taking for themselves—or if they’re charging at all, outside of the ad spend paid to Meta. I had written that they charged 20% of ad spend, but currently all I’m seeing is options that are lumped into one daily price.

Anyway, their lowest option is $10 per day for 14 days. The “recommended” option is $20 per day for 14 days. You can also set custom budgets.

4. Hypeddit

Ad Spend	Conversions	CPR	Spotify Saves*
$402.86	580	$0.69	N/A

*I ran this campaign over a year ago, so I no longer have access to the save data in SfA.

My campaign:

Unfortunately, I don’t have the corresponding Spotify for Artists graph anymore (this campaign was from longer than 12 months ago). But the numbers above are the Meta metrics. Overall, it went okay—it clearly worked, but it also clearly didn’t crush it.

You can read my more detailed Hypeddit review here.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐⭐⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐⭐⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ✅
• Your ad account ❌

Why I like it: Hypeddit is, if not the OG of this space, at least one of the first few players in it. Like Intellijend, the platform is built for exactly the sort of Meta ad campaigns I’ve always run. And they have a few extra features (download gates, etc.) that add some extra tactics to your marketing toolbox. I’ve used this software to build artists’ email lists, for example.

What it’s best for: Getting the basics of a Meta ad campaign right. With that said, 1) I don’t think Hypeddit puts enough emphasis on the ad creative – their standard cover-art videos are honestly a little lame – and 2) the interface isn’t as pretty as the two platforms I’ve got listed above, and doesn’t lend itself to presenting data in quite as actionable a way.

Still, you can make this work, and it’s a solid option that’s got everything you need.

Price: $20 if you want to run ads (plus the ad spend)

5. Symphony OS

Ad Spend	Conversions	CPR	Spotify Saves*
$99.88	5	$4.99	32

*Saves obviously include saves from other sources, but I use this as a proxy for how the ads translate to actual engagement on Spotify.

My campaign

You can see a little streaming bump there, but honestly, I think it’s almost certainly due to randomness more than anything else. According to Symphony, the campaign only sent five new people over to my song.

You can read my more detailed SymphonyOS review here.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐⭐⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ✅
• Your ad account ✅

Why I like it:

This is one of the few platforms that lets you choose between running ads in their own ad accounts or hooking things up to run ads in your own account. That flexibility is really nice. Also, my campaign was about as simple to set up as it possibly could’ve been – at least after I stopped trying to get Symphony’s AI to set it up for me.

What it’s best for:

As with Hypeddit, it’s good for getting the basics of a Meta ad campaign right.

Obviously, as you’ll see in my standalone Symphony review and in the numbers above, my personal results were pretty terrible. But I think that probably undersells this platform for a couple of reasons:

1. I didn’t pay for the pro version, so I was only able to upload one creative. That definitely hurt my chances at good results.
2. There are some cool features here that I just wasn’t interested in. For instance, they’ve got a website builder (but I already have a website) and a “Fan CRM,” which seems like it could be neat (but I already use Kit).

Price:

It’s a monthly subscription that starts at $15 per month, plus 15% of ad spend, plus ad spend. Higher tier plans charge a lower percentage of ad spend.

6. SongFly (SongTools)

Ad Spend	Conversions	CPR	Spotify Saves*
$140	147	$0.95	50

*Saves obviously include saves from other sources, but I use this as a proxy for how the ads translate to actual engagement on Spotify.

My campaign:

You can see a little bump in streams where the campaign was live; I think it is partly due to SongFly. But the ads were pretty expensive on a cost-per-result basis.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ✅
• Your ad account ❌

Why I like it:

This campaign was also relatively easy to set up, and as noted above, I actually did see a little bit of a boost in streams over the period when it was live.

What it’s best for:

Like some of the other tools on this list, this platform is practically begging to be used as a do-it-all marketing hub. SongFly is actually just one tool inside of the SongTools suite; they also do playlisting, and song links, and even “write” blog articles about your music (if you feed them prompts).

Price:

For ads of the sort I was running, it starts at $10 per day for seven days. It’s unclear if they’re taking a percentage of that, or if it’s all going to ad spend.

7. ToneDen

Ad Spend	Conversions	Cost Per Link Click	Spotify Followers
$198.47	9,786	$0.02	270

*These were definitely not all from this campaign… more below..

My campaign:

I ran a Spotify follower growth campaign, and was surprised to see that ToneDen didn’t set up a smart link to verify clicks through to Spotify. Instead, they ran a traffic campaign right to my profile. I’ve done this before, and it nearly always burns money, because you get junk clicks and bots that aren’t filtered out.

But then I saw followers coming in… and at first, I thought the campaign was actually working. Like, look at the graph; you can really clearly see a rate in the increase of follower growth.

But it’s misleading.

I realized, after digging deeper, that the bump was actually due to SoundLink, not ToneDen. I’d been promoting a specific song with SoundLink at the same time I was running a follower growth campaign with ToneDen, and I hadn’t realized that they opted users into following my profile when promoting an individual track. But after the SoundLink campaign ended, follower growth slowed back down while the ToneDen campaign kept running for another week or so.

If I’d realized all that beforehand, I would’ve run the campaigns at different times to avoid muddying the data. But here we are.

TL;DR— ToneDen didn’t seem to have much of an impact on its own.

My subjective ratings:

• Results: ⭐
• Ease: ⭐⭐⭐
• Data / dashboard: ⭐⭐
• Breadth of features: ⭐⭐⭐

Where you can run the ads:

• Their ad accounts ❌
• Your ad account ✅

Why I like it:

I’ll be honest: I didn’t really like this one. Despite the numbers up there, I don’t think the campaign worked at all, and I found the platform difficult to use. I don’t think they’re as geared for musicians as they used to be. These guys were apparently purchased by EventBrite not long ago, so that’s definitely playing a role in the direction they’re going.

What it’s best for:

Landing pages. ToneDen is one of the original smart link software options, and they actually offer that capability for free these days.

I can also see an argument for using this platform to run more complicated marketing campaigns. They seem to be less directly geared toward musicians these days; if you’re promoting events (including, of course, concerts), they offer templated campaigns to help. My purpose, obviously, was streaming growth, and their current playbooks don’t seem optimized for that.

Also, just as a random note—

Price:

$50 per month plus ad spend. (They offer a free tier on which you can get the smart link tool, but that tier doesn’t let you run ads.)

All right, that’s my list.

Hopefully this was helpful if you’re weighing these platforms for yourself!

If there are any other tools you think I should look at, let me know in the comments. I’m going to try to keep this list as current as possible. I don’t promise I’ll review everything; that would be nuts, since new versions of these things pop up like every other day. But I’ll keep my eyes open.

And if you just skimmed to the bottom—understandable, I do that myself—here’s a quick version of what I’d recommend.

• Best for Jend’s method: Intellijend (duh)
• Best for playlists: SubmitHub Links
• The one that drove the most cost-efficient results for me, personally: SubmitLink

One more time: These automated platforms can be a great starting point, but once you get going, I’d recommend learning Meta ads yourself. I teach how to do it in my Music Marketing Club, and in the long run it nearly always leads to better results with fewer costs.

Good luck out there. You’ve got this.