Reviews and Promos
Sorry, we do not review or write promos for Rap or Hip Hop
Sorry, we do not accept unsolicited emails.
If you’d like to submit your music for a review or promo, please read below and choose an option.
If you have a question or need some advice, you could submit your question
and have your band/music featured in a response directly from Mars!
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What You Get With a Review or Promo
| Service | Featured on MarsBands’ Homepage | Media Player Featured on MarsBands | 30-Day Ad Placed on MarsBands | Featured on MarsBands’ Social Media | Am I guaranteed a Review or Promo? | When Do You Get Your Review or Promo? | Cost | How Do I Get a Review/Promo? |
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| Free Review | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Within 4-6 weeks | Free | Click to Submit |
| Blurb | No | No | No | No | Yes | Within 3 days | $5 | Click to Purchase |
| Standard Promo | No | No | No | No | Yes | Within 21 days | $10 | Click to Purchase |
| Rush Promo | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Within 14 days | $20 | Click to Purchase |
| Express Promo | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Within 7 days | $30 | Click to Purchase |
Complete Details on Reviews and Promos
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| Service | Description |
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| Free Review | If you submit your music for a Free Review, we will listen to it - we promise. We listen to each and every submission we receive. The problem, from the band/musician perspective, with Free Reviews is that it could take a while before we get around to checking out your music. It could easily take 4-6 weeks due to the large number of review requests we are receiving each month. That’s not BS, either. We are getting well over 200 free review requests each month now and there’s only a few of us here to do the listening. (And for the record, MarsBands has written up nearly 700 free reviews over the last 20 months.) |
| Service | Description |
| Blurb | If you submit your music to MarsBands in exchange for a Blurb, we will write up 2 or 3 sentences for you. Blurbs work out really well if you’ve just released a new single and want to get some quotes to use in your EPKs, website or social media sites. Simply fill out our form telling us what you’d like us to listen to and we’ll write up something spiffy for you to share!Once we have successfully received your payment, we will have your blurb on our “Blurbs” page within 3 days. |
| Service | Description |
| Standard Promo | If you submit your music for a Standard Promo, within 21 days after we have received your payment we will move your request to the top of our “To Do List” and write up a positive endorsement of your music. Your Promo will not be featured on our homepage, but a link to your Promo will be visible on the “Bands” page of our website. Your Promo will be tagged with “Paid Promo” and will have “Promo” in the title. |
| Service | Description |
| Rush Promo | If you submit your music for a Rush Promo, within 14 days after we have received your payment we will move your request to the top of our “To Do List” and write up a positive endorsement of your music. Your Promo will be featured in our homepage slider, and after your promo has been replaced in the slider, it will still be visible on our homepage for at least 30 days.We’ll take your music player from Reverb, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or other site and put it on the left side of nearly every page of MarsBands for 7 days. What do we mean by “nearly”? On some pages (like this one) we use the full width of the screen, so the left column doesn’t show up. But for the vast majority of pages on MarsBands (like our homepage and our other high-traffic pages) we use that left-hand column. So pretty much any page a visitor lands on on our site, they’ll see your music player.Your Promo will be tagged with “Paid Promo” and will have “Promo” in the title. |
| Service | Description |
| Express Promo | If you submit your music for an Express Promo, within 7 days after we have received your payment we will move your request to the top of our “To Do List” and write up a positive endorsement of your music. Your Promo will be featured in our homepage slider, and after your promo has been replaced in the slider, it will still be visible on our homepage for at least 30 days.We’ll take your music player from Reverb, SoundCloud, Bandcamp or other site and put it on the left side of nearly every page of MarsBands for 7 days. What do we mean by “nearly”? On some pages (like this one) we use the full width of the screen, so the left column doesn’t show up. But for the vast majority of pages on MarsBands (like our homepage and our other high-traffic pages) we use that left-hand column. So pretty much any page a visitor lands on on our site, they’ll see your music player.We’ll make a 300x100px ad and, beginning the day your review is published, place it on the left hand side of nearly every page on MarsBands. Your ad be live on Marsbands for 30 days. Again, by “nearly” we mean “almost every”. There are very few pages where your ad won’t show up.
Your Promo will be tagged with “Paid Promo” and will have “Promo” in the title. |
