Avid’s music distribution service, AvidPlay, is a great DIY platform to enable you to distribute your music to over 150 compatible streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, TikTok, TIDAL and Amazon Music. In conjunction with Avid we are offering an unlimited number of free one year plans for one stereo track, but hurry as this offer expires on August 31st 2021.
What Is Digital Music Distribution?
Digital music distribution is the process of delivering original music to digital online stores like iTunes and Spotify.
Digital music distributors make their money by charging upfront fees or charging a percentage of the revenue earned from the streaming and downloading of your music. In some cases, digital music distributors will also charge an ongoing annual fee to keep your content online.
How Does AvidPlay Compare To Other Digital Music Distributors?
Avid released AvidPlay in July 2019 and updated it in January 2020. But how good is AvidPlay? They are entering an already busy market with plenty of options and so far there is no information out there to show whether what Avid is offering is good or not. So we decided to take to investigate. In this article, we share our exclusive research and show how AvidPlay compares with other digital music distribution services like Awal, CD Baby, DistroKid, Ditto, Landr, RouteNote, Spinnup and Tunecore.
More About AvidPlay
Pocket 100% of earnings
AvidPlay keeps track of all your music sales and streams for you and pays out 100% of all earnings. It’ll even share earnings among bandmates and contributors automatically, so you can spend more time doing what you do best—making music.
Create your own music distribution label
For indie labels, producers, and engineers, AvidPlay makes it easy to distribute music for multiple artists while keeping track of everything. From managing releases, contributors, and distribution plans, to sharing stats and splitting payments with participants.
Distribute music to multiple outlets
Choose the streaming services you prefer—Apple Music, Spotify, and more—or select them all, with the ability to auto-distribute to outlets added in the future. You’re in control of your release schedule.
Distribute music in the highest quality
No matter what platform listeners choose, they will always hear your mix in the highest quality*. That’s because AvidPlay enables you to distribute higher resolution music—up to 24-bit, 192 kHz audio.
Track song plays and sales
View how many plays and downloads your songs and albums are getting—and where they’re coming from—through visual graphs, giving you great insight into how well your music is performing.
Grow your fanbase
Promote your music without having to choose where to send fans. AvidPlay enables you to share links on social media that let listeners play your songs on their preferred streaming service.
Market your release
Quickly get your fans listening to your music on their favourite streaming service with custom QR codes. Easily add your code to business cards or fliers to promote yourself.
Easily share earnings with others
No need to calculate and split pay among bandmates or collaborators. Set the percentage each contributor should get, and AvidPlay will automatically split your earnings as dictated.
Stay connected wherever you go
AvidPlay is integrated into Avid Link’s mobile and desktop app, so you can access it anywhere, plus leverage Avid Link to connect with collaborators and share your latest release in the Lounges.
Get unique IDs for releases at no cost
Eliminate the need to purchase UPC/EAN or ISRC codes to track your sales and streaming performance. AvidPlay provides a free UPC or ISRC code for every track or album you share.
What Are We Offering?
In conjunction with Avid, for a limited period, we are offering everyone an Annual Stereo Single plan on AvidPlay worth $4.99.
This will enable you to publish one stereo track to over 150 major streaming outlets around the world like Apple Music, Spotify, TikTok, TIDAL, and Amazon Music. AvidPlay makes music distribution easy, enabling you to release your music in the highest quality, get discovered, grow your fanbase, and keep 100% of your rights and earnings with no hidden fees.
As this is an annual plan, what you will get is the first year free. After that, you will need to pay $4.99 per annum to keep your track on over 150 music publishing platforms.
What Will I Need?
You don’t need to be a Pro Tools user, this offer is open to everyone. You will need a free Avid Master Account if you haven’t got one. You will also need to download and install Avid Link, which is free, if you don’t already have it installed.
How Do I Get My Free Offer?
Click the button below.
This will take you to your Avid Master Account.
You will need to sign in to your Avid Master Account. If you haven’t got an Avid Master Account you can sign up for one for free.
Once you have signed in you will get this window with the coupon code already filled out.
All you need to do is click on the Register Product button.
Your free Stereo Single AvidPlay Plan will be automatically added to your account.
Next, you’ll access your account using Avid Link.
If you don’t have Avid Link and click the appropriate link for your operating system, whether you’re on a desktop computer or mobile device.
For desktop computers, mount the disk image (on macOS computers) or unzip the EXE file (on Windows computers)
Either way, double click the installer package and follow the instructions on the screen to install Avid Link.
For mobile devices, install the Avid Link app using the instructions in either the Apple App Store or Google Play store.
Launch Avid Link and log in with your Avid Master Account.
Note: Avid Link will remember your login details, so you don’t have to enter them each time.
Once you have opened Avid Link
Click on the Products tab
At the top, you’ll see the AvidPlay dashboard. Click it.
For more information using AvidPlay check out the following guides…
Enjoy distributing your music worldwide!