Turn streams into email subscribers, Spotify and SoundCloud followers, and ticket sales

Fans tap a button on your campaign page and connect their Spotify or SoundCloud account through the official OAuth login, the same secure flow used to sign into any app with those platforms. BlitzRocket then checks the API directly to confirm a Spotify follow or save, or a SoundCloud follow, like, repost, or share. There are no screenshots, no honor system, and no manual review. Entries are only awarded for actions that actually happened, which is why campaigns at the scale of the Shawn Mendes Wonder World Tour pre-launch can report real numbers rather than estimates.

It is the fastest route to owned audience in music. The Shawn Mendes Wonder World Tour campaign ran for 16 weeks across Spotify and Instagram Live and finished with 1.6M email subscribers. Every BlitzRocket entrant provides an email, and you can sync them automatically into 13 providers including Klaviyo, Mailchimp, Kit, ActiveCampaign, MailerLite, Campaign Monitor, Drip, EmailOctopus, GetResponse, Sendy, Sendlane, Gist, and Autopilot. Tag the giveaway cohort so your presale announcement goes to exactly the fans who raised their hand.

By replacing the silence with recurring touchpoints. When the Wonder World Tour was pushed back, the campaign ran Spotify listening parties and Instagram Live sessions and offered exclusive acoustic performances as top prizes, giving fans a reason to stay in rather than request a refund. Ticket retention held at 89% despite the delays. The same structure works for any gap: one long campaign, regular events, and a prize only you can give.

Spotify follows, playlist follows, track saves, and album saves are confirmed through OAuth, as are SoundCloud follows, likes, reposts, and shares, Twitch follows and subscribes, and X follows, likes, and reposts. For Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Discord, Reddit, Threads, Telegram, and other platforms without public verification APIs, fans upload proof that our AI reviews automatically. You get high-confidence entries everywhere without reviewing thousands of images by hand.

BlitzRocket verifies saves of released tracks and albums, so the strongest play is launching on release day and driving verified saves during the window when discovery algorithms are watching most closely. For the lead-up, run a waitlist campaign that collects emails and verified follows, gate an exclusive demo or acoustic version behind actions, and switch on save actions the moment the song is live.

Prizes only you can give. The Shawn Mendes campaign used exclusive acoustic performances as the top reward, which no prize hunter would chase but every real fan would. Signed vinyl and test pressings, merch bundles, tickets with a soundcheck or meet and greet, a credit on the record, or early access to unreleased material all work for the same reason, and they cost far less than cash or gadgets. The free giveaway prize generator at /tools/giveaway-prize-generator is a good place to start if you are stuck.

Yes. BlitzRocket tracks purchases from Shopify and Stripe through webhooks and a tracking script, so bonus entries are awarded automatically for every order placed during a campaign. A vinyl giveaway where each purchase earns 50 extra entries turns the giveaway into a merch sales driver instead of a line item.

That is exactly who it is built for. The mechanics that produced 1.6M subscribers for Shawn Mendes are the same mechanics on the $49 Starter plan: verified Spotify and SoundCloud actions, referral links, a leaderboard, and email sync. There is no long-term contract, and one release campaign can leave you with verified saves, new followers, and a list you keep permanently. You can see how other artists structured their campaigns at /case-studies/artists or compare plans at /pricing.