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SoundOn TikTok's Music Distribution ... Ditto Music is a legacy distribution service that has been around just as long as Distrokid, CD Baby, and Tunecore. The same way Distrokid capitalized on the pricing flaws of CD Baby and Tunecore, Ditto capitalized on the feature flaws of Distrokid. Where does Ditto stand in the crowded space of music distribution today? Here we break down the Great, Good, Bad, and Ugly about Ditto music distribution.
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The most affordable plan offered by Ditto is the Starter plan. That plan gives you just about everything you need for $19 annually.
Ditto doesn't nickel and dime you on features and tools. You pay more to get more, meaningfully more. The Pro plan has a higher price at $59 annually than the Plus plan, but gives you Content ID and allows you to keep 100% of your earnings. It also gives you priority with customer support. Scaling customer support by breaking it up over tiers largely means better support at the higher tiers because there's less competition for resources.
Every distribution company offers Playlist pitching as part of their pitch. What they offer is basically the same editorial wish dream you find in your Spotify for Artists dashboard. There's no genuine pitching. Ditto gives you something different.
You can submit to Ditto's branded playlists. A lot of times these distributor-branded playlists aren't worth a damn because they're treated like throw-ins. There's no investment, no attempt to actually grow and develop the playlists and really push the strategy. Ditto has clearly taken a different approach. It has an inventory of brand playlists with significant followings - take a look for yourself - there are multiple playlists spanning genres and styles, each with significant followings. The playlists are exclusively for Ditto artists and releases, which makes it easier to get a placement because you're not competing for two or three slots reserved for "undiscovered" artists.
On the Pro plan, your music doesn't get removed from stores if you fail to pay or cancel your distribution service. This means payment lapses won't result in take-downs that can cause you to lose performance stats and playlist placements.
Ditto has a proven track record and is built to manage the scale of its clientele. The company has been around offering digital distribution since 2005. That level of experience matters when it comes to distribution operations. It's unlikely, but not impossible, that you'll run into delivery issues where your release doesn't make it to stores, shows up in stores with the wrong information, or gets placed on the wrong profile.
Ditto offers Promo packages that guarantee you marketing support. There's Promo at $500 per campaign and Promo+ at $600 per campaign. These plans give you 4 - 6 weeks of playlist pitching, PR, social media ad management, and more. Yes, you pay extra, but they give you more than what most dedicated marketing platforms offer, let alone digital distributors. Marketing platforms don't offer to do anything for you; they simply attempt to make it easier for you to do it yourself. Distributors don't even offer that much; they say "playlist pitching" and let your imagination run wild with no clarity on what it entails.
It's often better to just pay for what you want rather than hoping something gets delivered to you for free. When you pay for a service, there's a legal obligation for you to get what you paid for.
This is another feature you see pushed across distribution service providers. What's different here is Briefs. With Ditto, it's less of a pipe dream and more a matter of strategy and execution. Sync Briefs detail exactly what a Music supervisor offering a placement is looking for. You see the style they want; sometimes there's a reference where they'll say they want something that sounds like Michael Jackson's Beat It. They'll tell you the BPMs and the phrases they want mentioned. An artist can look at the Briefs and literally go and create something that matches.
What competitors offer takes the process out of your control. They simply add your music to a database of songs available to those looking to use music for sync. It's like having a song sent to Spotify or YouTube Music. Having it there means nothing if no one brings attention to it. And there isn't anything you can do to improve your chances.
For the same $59 you pay for Ditto Pro, you also get Publishing Administration. That centralizes the workload and performance tracking. Instead of you having to access two separate interfaces and go through the same process of inputting what's largely the same information, you do it once and have it registered for both. Publishing Administration makes sure you're paid your mechanical royalties. Your Ditto dashboard allows you to switch views from streaming royalties to Composition royalties so everything is tracked in one place.
Ditto has the largest inventory of stores I've seen offered out of all the distributors I've reviewed. The key is their inventory of EDM and Dance music stores, as well as stores that make music available to incarcerated persons through prison Kiosks like JayPay.
Faster doesn't necessarily mean better. There's no video chat, live text chat, or dedicated support representative. Nothing that scale proofs the service. Even at $59 annually, there could be a massive client base overloading the support staff.
Followers aren't listeners or streams. Their Headphones playlist has over 52K Saves and followers, but when I took a look at the profiles of a few small acts, it wasn't listed in their Discovered On. That indicates a lack of listenership.
Your music stays in stores, but royalties aren't paid out. Ditto doesn't just hold your royalties; it appears they keep them. That sounds horrible. Here's something to consider: the lowest-priced plan is $19 annually. If you earned $19, you'd pay 100% of it to Ditto for the distribution service anyway. Anything over that amount, you could reactivate your subscription and collect. One that would go a long way is allowing for your subscription to be debited from your royalty balance. This would automatically reactivate your subscription and offset against something like you being in a coma, with a release generating thousands in royalties being claimed by Ditto.