ReverbNation Reviews 

After 2 years of paid distribution I canceled the 3 year. I was really sick at the time and may have crossed over them taking the funds. I contacted paypal for as refund. Reverbnation had every opportunity to contest this refund in accordance with the paypal agreement! ReverbNation then blocked my account holding my song’s, info and royalties hostage until I reversed the refund! Even though they were paid in full and held my money for 20 days before the refund they claim it was a chargeback when it was a non-contested refund! Even though the refund closed the transaction they claim it’s still open!

I have been a marketing professional in the music industry and in the 'real world' for almost 30 years. I am also a professional musician.

ReverbNation's promotional tools are smoke and mirrors. Their stats on the paid campaigns are nonsense. When questioned about the stats, they send a boilerplate email explaining the difference between 'views' and 'engagement' which I already knew. NO responses that explain how they justify the results they report on your investment in their ad campaigns.

Simply put: ReverbNation is a rip off. I neglected to check the Better Business Bureau on them before spending over $400 on an ad campaign. If I had, I would see how many complaints are similar to mine.

BEWARE OF REVERBNATION. Do not give them your money. It goes down a digital black hole and they cannot match their stats on the campaign, with the actual engagement you will see in your emails, new fans, or social media. When questioned for real data, they ignore you.

Spend your money on a website for your music or do your own social media posting. Spend your time on your Music, your Art...and save yourself some money and tons of frustration / feeling ripped off.

I found charges on my debit card that I did not pay for. This is really unnerving as they do it very silently.
-$1.30
-$19.99. (I payed for..)
-$35.00 (WHAT?!)
-$35.00 (I DIDN'T PAY FOR THIS...)

Thank goodness that I saw that they were stealing my money. This site is a big fraud and it is disgusting. Do not use this site, they just want your money. I have gotten only constant spam messages that I got a new opportunity and I HAVE TO PAY MORE MONEY, etc... just no :/

Not only have Reverbnation too what i so believe to be deliberate, had deleted my entire Reverbnation artist page on the 8th September 2020, having got personal with me over a genuine question relating to my data being asked, resulting in the loss of all my music, images, 1612 fans erased and I am deeply annoyed with them for what they have done..

All because I had done a google search of my name and found untold images of myself in Google images from Reverbnation and other platforms that I have joined up to in the past, but more so Reverbnation and I merely asked if they are sharing my data with Google. An answer was received, yet it was a personal attack against me for no reason.

There was no need to be referred to as Dear 'TRUST'...that is not my name, yet I was referred to as that. Upon trying to log into my Reverbnation page, i was no longer able to do so, upon reading an e-mail, I did not request for my account to be closed, yet that is what Reverbnation had done and had stated that i had mentioned...How can I ever forgive them..I want my entire music back and they have prevented me from even downloading my data....a copyright issue as i may need to sort advice over this!

I wrote a song for my late best friend Jennifer. It was on there for years. Now it is gone. Luckily I can still play her song but you POS stole it and I want it back, I hope to god I find the band who stole my dead friends song because I'm gonna give it to you. F U

I think reverbnation gets a bad rep, but I've always found it to be a useful resource for musos. I think it can be one piece for your online exposure.

Awful, I think they should probably be investigated for fraud?

Member for many years promoting 2 artists. ReverbNation did not build up fan following as we expected, despite spending a few thousand dollars on their promotional programs. The main fans you get are other musicians. This is not good. They really are not your fans, but just followed you so you will follow back. I recently thought there was a credit fraud on my account and told card company to hold charges from ReverbNation. I found out the charges were legitimate (my oversight) and told my credit card company to go ahead and pay ReverbNation. I explained situation to ReverbNation, but they locked my account and closed it. Good riddance. You will do much better advertising on local newspapers/magazines, Facebook Ads, Instagram Boost, and Google Ads. Much cheaper, much more targeted towards your ideal fan, and truly organic (real) followers.

Reverbnation by Eminor is a total rip-off!
Not only I did not get the service I paid for, they pulled a dirty trick on me via Paypal and litherally stole around 100$ from me.

I paid for their Promote It service for 3 different advertisements for my albums. Waited 3 days and yet. Nothing happened. Therefore I cancelled their service but when I recieved no refund I complained on them trough paypal only for them to pretend I got said refund so I then pull off my complaint on paypal yet to descover that I have been blocked from their service and am not able to use my refund anymore for their future service, as well as solve the dispute at paypal to get my money back as these scoundrels used a wicked way by not supplying me with cancelation number for my order.

These people are dirty scoundrels and I was innocent enough to believe they will actually supply me a service and I will get something in return... They are very wicked in how they settled me with their scam. I lost money over nothing.

Stay away from these scoundrells of Reverb Nation!

They robbed me ... I have already won 2 court cases against them. I have a 3rd one in progress and will probably have to open a fourth one as they are collecting my royalties. They closed my account so I can not collect the money.

When i first signed in, I could find use of this website but not anymore.

I recently wanted to simply change my name and keep this account but I couldn't do that ...so I just removed it.

To be honest I think spotify or even lastFM can replace whatever reverbnation is offering.

This site is ABSOLUTELY AND TOTALLY USELESS. All they do is charge you monthly fee and try to sell you more stuff so that they can charge you twice as much. I fell for it once, but quickly cancelled. I have my music on the site for years now, it had ZERO benefit for me except that I posted my songs and videos on that site. This, by the way, was also a big mistake because just having a website and a YouTube channel would have done soo much more for me. Now it’s just difficult to transfer the stuff from one place to another. There isn’t a single artist who was helped and become known through this bogus site. If you are a musician, please save your money for other things like streaming, or mentoring, or getting better at your craft. Reverbnation is useless.

They don't pay your royalties for stupid reasons. Do not work with this website.

Been on this site for 4 years. It's done zero for me and is a joke as far as I can see.

Yall complain a lot! I been apart of this family like 7 months! Amazing distrbitor! And fast delivery! Im glad Im using this payment and the Music out there. Thanks for helpin me! I never will leave this team xx Lati K 💕

We started our label late 2000s with reverbnation because at the time it seemed like the best choice. 10 years later, nothing but problems. We have never bought any of their promotional BS and used the site for distribution. The accounting information is a joke. I dunno how many times I've had to look back at sales and thumb through 1 of however many hundreds of 10 result tabs to reconstruct a spreadsheet I should be able to download instantly. There are plenty of examples of bad support or no support (IE just closing my open tickets with little or no explanation.

Currently one of our most regarded and reputable artists was taken down due to suspicious streaming. This was a flag sent by stores and there is no explanation other than, you agreed in TOS not to do this, end of story. There is no way this was carried out by the artist and all revenue is frozen. This was relating to streaming revenue only and they are withholding all revenue which they have no answer for when opening support tickets asking why.

The other huge issue is that I am not able to withdraw certain artists royalties. This time we uploaded the wrong w-8ben information at the start of 2020 and re uploaded the corrected form once WE noticed the issue. Some of our artists tax information was corrected and some wasnt. I opened a ticket and support advised I update the w-8ben form we've already updated multiple times, ticket closed. This has been ongoing since the beginning of the year and we've received zero support.

To sum up, do not under any circumstances use reverbnation unless you are into constant headaches. This company was the best deal "back in the day". They obviously have done nothing to evolve since. Go with distrokid, its free and it works. Oh and one more thing. If you are still thinking of using reverbnation remember once you release with them the only way to switch is to remove your release and re-release with another company. If you could switch seamlessly to another company I would have years ago!

I Do Not Recommend Reverberation:
I’m a very small, Independent artist. I have a very small audience, and my music is meant for sleep, film and much more. And a handful of people actually listen to my music while they sleep! In 2019 I released a new album, that is mainly for sleep. And Reverberation terminated all my releases because apparently playing music on repeat while you sleep is “Fraudulent”. I knew people played my music all night while they slept, people have told me they do this. This is stupid, Reverberation screwed me over! Because I have a small loyal audience. And I hardly got any royalties as well. So 1k streams on 11 songs in 8 months with 20 followers is fraudulent?
Small indie artists with small loyal audiences actually exist! I wish they realized this! I do not recommend Reverberation.

After 5 years of distribution services I tried for the first time to withdraw my money. Never did before, because I used them for other services. Never had any problem, all ok. In the same moment when I tried to have my money, all is changed.
My account is BLOCKED, all downloads and streaming infos are unavailable for me, no communication - no money!!! And all this for 150 dollars! They choice to lose long time client without any problem in all this years for 150 dollars... Good luck you losers!

A very powerfull tool for any kind of artist!Especially for musicians I highly recommend it.With immediate chart positions,who viewed your profile,easy become a fan of other artists.Inner mail,fan comments,a lot of space for demonstrating your music,email marketing,you can set up your own label or venue,say where your next show is,in platform purchase of your album and plenty of other feautures for free!If you feel like becoming more professional in music you can be your own manager with a premium subscription but even without one you have a lot of managing tools as it is!

I've read a lot of the reviews, and I see where the site has had questionable practices with some patrons. With the number of bad reviews that appear, there has to be something to them, if not now, at one time. Maybe some folks are still having issues.
I haven't encountered one site that offers you much help or support with your musical endeavors if you aren't a member. They're a sector of the service industry. Its a business, and if they aren't making money off of paid ads like social media, they have to make it somewhere.
I paid for the basic subscription, 20 bucks.
I have not had them charge my credit card for any services I did not ask for. That is important. Trust is a big deal.
I've had other services that wanted much more money that to do the same thing I getting from Reverb. And they RN isn’t the only place I'm promoting myself, so some of the work is up to the artist.
I did not pay Reverb Nation to play or stream any of my music. I do that myself. They haven't given me any issue about it. They have not said to me verbally or in writing that if I paid them "just xxxx.xx dollars, We'll do xxxxx for you". I have gotten no hard sells. If they have made issues with people, then they need to fix them.
I'm having my own site built and it will be my hub, but you have to spread yourself around to get known. So I find this sites and some similar to it useful. You need to have a game plan, know what it is you want out of a site and then do a little reading and decide if the site can deliver. So far, I have not had a negative experience on Reverb Nation. I'm big on giving the thumbs up or down, which ever a business earns based on what they do or don't provide. My time with Reverb Nation has been good. If they started giving me the run around, I would not hesitate to give them the lowest rating possible.
So far so good.
I have no family who works for them, and I don't work for them.