About Heard.

I'm an independent musician, like you. I came back to releasing music after a long break and hit the same wall everyone hits: the gatekeepers exist, but their contact details are scattered, outdated, or locked behind expensive one-time PDFs that are stale the day they ship.

So I built the thing I wanted: a living, continuously verified directory of everyone worth pitching. Browsing is free. Full access to the contact details, emails, submission forms and socials is $29 a year, or $19 a month for a single campaign. Still less than the old print directories, and unlike them it stays current all year.

• Playlist curators — across the major streaming platforms. Sourced from public profiles + community submissions.
• Music supervisors — film, TV, ad, trailer, game. Sourced from credit databases and industry directories.
• PR & marketing firms — companies that represent musicians, with their public client rosters.
• Press / blogs — music publications, ranked by activity and reach.
• Producers — beatmakers, top-line writers, record producers. Sourced from album credits, SoundBetter, and verified release info.
• Mix & mastering engineers — the people who finish the record. Sourced from release credits and hire-me platforms.
• Music publishers — admin and co-publishing companies handling songwriter shares + sync licensing. Sourced from MPA listings and verified label-publisher cross-references.

Coverage is heaviest in the US and UK. We expand geographically as we add new signals.

Contact genre tags are derived from rosters, not self-claimed. We look at every artist a contact has placed/repped/featured, pull each artist's genre tags from various music databases, and surface the genres that show up across at least 20% of the roster.

This means an indie-rock booking agent gets tagged indie-rock because their roster IS indie-rock — not because they bought ad space or self-described that way.

Artist tags are crowd-sourced and best-effort. Where we can't match a tag to one of our genre slugs, we skip rather than auto-create junk genres.

Each contact type gets its own chips, computed from publicly-available data only.

Activity (curators / blogs / communities)

High / Medium / Low / Inactive — strictly tied to whether the contact is doing what they exist to do.

• Curators: are they actually reviewing pitches and running playlists? High = consistent recent activity at meaningful volume. Medium = real but moderate. Low = limited presence. Inactive = no signs of life.
• Blogs: posting cadence over the trailing month. High = near-daily. Medium = a few per week. Low = roughly weekly. Inactive = nothing in the last 90 days.
• Communities: engaged conversation in the last 30 days (real replies, bots discounted). High = multiple per day. Medium = every few days. Low = roughly weekly. Inactive = silent for a week+.

Real audience (curators only)

Bot-farm detection for playlists. Editorial = run by the streaming platform itself. Real audience = healthy follower-to-curation ratio, diverse artists, realistic approval rate. Inflated / Bot-farm = patterns consistent with purchased followers or zero curation effort. Click the chip on any curator card for the specific signals we flagged.

Responsiveness (curators with SubmitHub data)

A–F based on SubmitHub approval rate and review volume. Only the curators with enough SH data get a real grade; the rest show nothing (we don't guess responsiveness from having an email).

Per-type stats we surface

• Blogs: posts/month, last post date, domain authority (when available).
• Curators: indexed playlist followers + track counts; SubmitHub submissions and approvals.
• Communities (Reddit): subscriber count.
• Venues: capacity + age restriction, acts who've played there (from venue calendars).
• Supervisors / PR / Booking agents / Managers / Labels: artist roster + relationship type. No composite score — quality is in the names.

What we don't score

Stream-per-add and save-rate metrics ate gated, as are certain community metrics. We surface what's in public data and label what isn't — "INSUFFICIENT" rather than a guess.

Click any field on any contact and you'll see where we got the value and when we last verified it. Every contact card shows a freshness indicator that color-codes how stale the underlying data is — fresh entries are green, ancient entries are red.

We don't fabricate. If we don't know a supervisor's email, the field is empty — not filled with a guess.

This directory gets better when people flag what's wrong. If a contact is dead, moved, or mislabeled, tell me at /contact?topic=bad-contact and I'll re-verify it. Every correction makes the whole thing sharper.

• Not a guarantee. Every contact can change overnight. Verify before pitching.
• Not endorsed by anyone listed. Heard is a directory of public information.
• Not exhaustive. We grow with every refresh and with user suggestions.
• Not a pitching service. We don't send anything to anyone on your behalf.
• Not affiliated with Spotify, Apple, IMDb, or any other source. We use public data. We are not partnered with, sponsored by, or endorsed by any of the sites we pull data from.

We collect no analytics by default. IPs are hashed (never stored in plaintext) only as a rate-limiting signal on the feedback form. See the privacy page for details.