FREE REPORT FOR INDEPENDENT ARTISTS

For independent artists with a finished track and money set aside to push it

7 THINGS YOU MUST KNOW BEFORE YOU SPEND ANOTHER DOLLAR PROMOTING

YOUR MUSIC

The complete mechanism behind Spotify growth in 2026 & our real campaign costs, the numbers nobody in this business publishes + the 7 questions that expose a promotion scam in under a minute.

The whole mechanism behind Spotify growth in 2026. Every figure dated and sourced; including three of our own campaigns, with the cost per follower/ listener.

6 producers watching at this right now

You are not being ignored. You are being buried.

Roughly 106,000 tracks went up today.

Nearly nine out of ten tracks on Spotify get under a thousand plays in a year.

None of that is a verdict on your music.

It's a distribution problem with a mechanical answer and almost every service selling you that answer is selling the wrong one.

You've probably already met them.

Flat fee, big playlist, streams arrive, monthly listeners don't move.

Or worse: the streams get flagged, and the penalty lands on your distributor account.

Not theirs. Yours.

Inside this free report:

✅ Why the one number everybody chases is the one number Spotify ignores and how chasing it can make your track harder to recommend

✅ What a "guaranteed placement" quietly does to your catalog including the penalty that lands on your distributor account, not the seller's, whether or not you knew

✅ The exact route real traffic takes and why sending an ad straight to your Spotify link makes it impossible to know whether it worked

✅ What a real Spotify follower actually costs in 2026 our own published campaign numbers, with the geography attached

✅ Why €0.10 per follower is almost always one of three things and the one sentence that makes any provider prove which
✅ The reason week one always looks like a failure plus the day-three decision that permanently traps campaigns in the expensive phase
✅ The 7 questions to ask any promotion provider before you pay concrete, verifiable, and answered "no" by most of them
✅ An honest accounting of what running this yourself costs the learning curve, the creative load, the daily attention and the testing budget you burn before the first ad set works

Seven sections, every number dated and sourced, including three of our own campaigns with the cost per follower attached.

Why we published the thing we could have sold

I'm Leon.

I run Meta Ads campaigns that put real listeners on independent artists' Spotify profiles.

I could have kept this behind a paywall.

Publishing it costs me the artists who read it and go do it themselves and plenty will.

I'd still rather compete in a market where people can tell the difference, because right now they can't and that's the actual reason most of them have stopped spending at all.

Everything in here is the same material I work from.

Not a summary of it.

This costs you nothing and no catch worth hiding. You give me an email address, I send you a PDF. There's no call booked automatically, no sequence of upsells and your address is never sold or shared.

If it isn't useful, one click and you're off the list. That's the whole arrangement.

You have a finished, released track. You have some budget set aside to push it. And you don't want to hand that budget to someone who won't tell you what they're actually buying with it.

P.S. The expensive mistake isn't buying the wrong promotion. It's the release you don't push at all because you can't tell the honest offers from the rest, and the window closes while you decide.

That's most artists, every time. The report gives you the seven questions that settle it in about a minute and the real cost figures to hold anyone's quote against, including mine. It's free, and it's twenty minutes.

Anyone looking for a shortcut to a big number on a screen. This report explains in detail why that number costs you more than it's worth.