ŌTOCRACY is an independent trade publication for working electronic-music artists, producers and small labels. We report on what things cost, what they return, and how the industry actually operates — in 5 language editions.
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Readership figures: Google Analytics, August 2026. Editions: English, German, Dutch, French and Italian.
Co-founder & Contributing Editor
DJ and producer. Founder of the Temple of Sinners event series and the Underkntrl label; co-founder of Ōtocracy. A decade inside the European electronic circuit — booking, playing, releasing, and now running promotion campaigns for artists and labels. Everything he writes comes from the booth and the campaign dashboard, not from theory.
Founder & Editor
Founder of Ōtocracy and the engineer behind its campaign systems. Edgars has run 2,400+ music promotion campaigns with the founding team — the budgets, the bids, the delivery pipelines, and the dashboards that grade them. His articles are the numbers side of the operation: what a euro actually buys on each platform, which metrics predict algorithmic pickup, and where campaigns quietly leak money.
Contributing Writer
Daniel covers the label side of Ōtocracy's work: roster economics, release pipelines, and catalog promotion at scale. Methodical breakdowns of how labels allocate budget across artists — and what the delivery data says about which allocations pay.
Our readership is semi-professional to professional artists and label owners across Europe — principally the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France and the UK. Coverage is practical and financial rather than lifestyle: campaign economics, platform mechanics, release strategy, scene reporting and industry events.
ŌTOCRACY is published by Otocracy Group OÜ, which also operates music promotion services for artists and labels. We state this plainly because our readers make spending decisions on the strength of what we publish.
Coverage is not for sale. We do not accept payment for editorial placement, and we do not publish sponsored articles disguised as reporting. Where an article references our own services, it is marked as such in the body of the piece.
Figures we publish are sourced and dated. Where a number comes from our own campaign data, we say so and give the sample size.
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