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Anatomy of
a label month

No black box. A label's month is the same programs everyone buys, at your standing price, plus the ad budget you fund at cost. Here is exactly how three real months are built — every fee priced by the same engine as checkout, every channel named, and what return looks like.

The machine

One release, every
surface, one dashboard

A release doesn't live on one platform, so a campaign can't either. Meta drives real listeners to Spotify. TikTok and YouTube turn the sound into discovery. SoundCloud and Beatport carry credibility with DJs and the dance-music trade.

Two plans, and that is the whole pricing: Label Desk at €990/mo or Label Partner at €2490/mo. On top of a plan you buy any of our campaigns at your better price, and you fund the ad budget at cost on your own account — we never touch or mark up media.

So the money you pay us is not a percentage of your spend — it is your plan plus the campaigns you actually run, each fully delivered with receipts. The three months below show how that adds up for a Desk and a Partner. Everything reports into one dashboard the label owns.

Three months

How a label month is built

01 // The Desk Month
€3,479 / month all-in
at your Desk price

A label on the Desk running two or three priority releases a month.

Plan + campaigns · €2,079Ad budget, at cost · €1,400
What you pay us · your plan + campaigns
The plan, then the campaigns you chose this month at your Desk price — each one fully run and receipted. Not a fee on your ad spend.
Label Desk
€990
Release Pro × 2
€1,010
Network Pushwarm-up on a catalogue cut
€79
Plan + campaigns
€2,079
Ad budget you fund at cost · deployed by channel
Meta → Spotify streams
Targeted-listener ads route real fans to each release and trigger save/playlist signals.
€900/mo
TikTok Spark Ads
Boost the artists' own clips as Spark ads for sound-led discovery.
€500/mo

A planning allocation scaled to the release — funded at cost on the label's own accounts, €10/day minimum while live. We never mark up media.

Planning targets
Targeted Spotify streams / mo18k–40k
SoundCloud combined followers2M combined (1M per Release Pro)
Owned audienceSmartlink + email capture on every release
ReportingLive dashboard + white-label monthly report
Spotify streams computed at €0.022–€0.048 per targeted stream on the €900 Meta→Spotify line only — TikTok and YouTube views are read live from the label's own account, never forecast; any Beatport push is a fixed-cost, contracted purchase set, and chart entry is not promised. Modelled on our default 38-country mix. A US-only brief roughly doubles the cost per stream; a Southern-Europe-only brief roughly halves it — the geography is a dial, and we set it with you.
What the label is buying
Two releases fully run, receipted, on one dashboard A permanently better price and priority in every queue Clean per-artist ledgers your artists can be shown
02 // The Partner MonthMOST DEPLOYED
€6,789 / month all-in
at your Partner price

A Label Partner: one managed release included, the rest at Partner price.

Plan + campaigns · €3,789Ad budget, at cost · €3,000
What you pay us · your plan + campaigns
The plan, then the campaigns you chose this month at your Partner price — each one fully run and receipted. Not a fee on your ad spend.
Label Partnerincludes one fully-managed Pro-class release
€2,490
Release Prothe included managed release
included
Release Pro
€528
EP Launch
€771
Plan + campaigns
€3,789
Ad budget you fund at cost · deployed by channel
Meta → Spotify streams
The streams engine plus persona-built audiences and geo scaling across IG and FB.
€1,600/mo
TikTok Spark + creator seeds
Paid Spark reach layered with seeded creator clips for sound virality.
€800/mo
YouTube views + Shorts
In-stream and discovery views to the video, plus a Shorts reach burst.
€600/mo

A planning allocation scaled to the release — funded at cost on the label's own accounts, €10/day minimum while live. We never mark up media.

Planning targets
Targeted Spotify streams / mo33k–72k
SoundCloud combined followers7M combined (1M + 1M + 5M on the EP)
Beatport chart pushOne contracted purchase set on the EP, receipted
Owned audiencePre-save hub + email capture, roster-wide
ReportingLive dashboard + white-label monthly report
Spotify streams computed at €0.022–€0.048 per targeted stream on the €1,600 Meta→Spotify line only — TikTok and YouTube views are read live from the label's own account, never forecast; any Beatport push is a fixed-cost, contracted purchase set, and chart entry is not promised. Modelled on our default 38-country mix. A US-only brief roughly doubles the cost per stream; a Southern-Europe-only brief roughly halves it — the geography is a dial, and we set it with you.
What the label is buying
A managed release every month, plus two more at your best price Chart credibility you can use in A&R and press A growing owned audience — pre-saves and email you keep
03 // Full Roster, Always-On
€12,244 / month all-in
at your Partner price

A Partner running the whole calendar — several releases in flight each month.

Plan + campaigns · €6,244Ad budget, at cost · €6,000
What you pay us · your plan + campaigns
The plan, then the campaigns you chose this month at your Partner price — each one fully run and receipted. Not a fee on your ad spend.
Label Partnerincludes one fully-managed Pro-class release
€2,490
Release Prothe included managed release
included
Release Max
€1,478
Album Launch
€1,220
Release Pro × 2
€1,056
Plan + campaigns
€6,244
Ad budget you fund at cost · deployed by channel
Meta → Spotify + Audience
Streams across the roster plus lead-gen ads that grow the label's owned email list.
€3,000/mo
TikTok Spark + creator packs
Always-on Spark plus rotating creator packs across the roster.
€1,500/mo
YouTube views + Shorts + subs
The full YouTube stack — views, Shorts reach and channel subscriber growth.
€1,500/mo

A planning allocation scaled to the release — funded at cost on the label's own accounts, €10/day minimum while live. We never mark up media.

Planning targets
Targeted Spotify streams / mo62k–136k
SoundCloud combined followers13M combined across the month's releases
Beatport chart pushesTwo contracted purchase sets (Release Max + Album)
Owned commerceEmail list and smartlink audience you own off-platform
ReportingLive dashboard + white-label monthly report
Spotify streams computed at €0.022–€0.048 per targeted stream on the €3,000 Meta→Spotify line only — TikTok and YouTube views are read live from the label's own account, never forecast; any Beatport push is a fixed-cost, contracted purchase set, and chart entry is not promised. Modelled on our default 38-country mix. A US-only brief roughly doubles the cost per stream; a Southern-Europe-only brief roughly halves it — the geography is a dial, and we set it with you.
What the label is buying
Roster-wide momentum instead of one-off spikes An owned email list — audience you keep off-platform Compounding catalogue value across every release cycle
What return means

ROI for a label isn't
a stream count

Streams alone don't pay a label. So we measure return as the assets a program builds — the things that keep earning after the ad spend stops.

Owned audience

Email lists and pre-save hubs you keep off-platform — the audience no algorithm can take back.

Chart credibility

Beatport chart pushes that open doors in A&R, press and booking. We contract the purchases — a concentrated set across a 10-day chart-week window — never the placement.

Catalogue value

Streams and saves compound. A release with momentum keeps earning and lifts the back catalogue.

Clean books

Per-artist ledgers and forwardable, artist-named reports — the paperwork a management contract actually requires.

Illustrative planning model. Program prices are real and computed by the same engine as checkout; the ad-budget allocations and target ranges are examples for a typical EDM month — actual allocation and results depend on the track, genre, market and creative. A Beatport chart push guarantees the purchases behind it — a concentrated set of real purchases — but never a chart entry or position: Beatport publishes no entry threshold, and genre decides most of the outcome. TikTok and YouTube views are read live from the label's own account, never forecast. Ad budgets always run at cost — Ōtocracy never marks up media.

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