Feature.fm

feature.fm
Marketing Automation
Weekend Project

The #1 music marketing platform for independent artists

How to Replace Feature.fm

Overview

Feature.fm is a music marketing platform that helps independent artists build their fan base and music career through smart links, pre-save campaigns, and fan management tools. The platform enables artists to connect fans to all their content across music services, collect fan data, and gain insights into fan behavior to grow their audience.

Features

50 features across 21 categories

Advertising(1)

Retargeting PixelsPremium

Send data to ad retargeting programs like TikTok Ads, Facebook Ads, Google Ads, and Snapchat Ads

Analytics(6)

Activities TrackingPremium

Append and link URL with a custom activity to track where your link traffic comes from

Analytics and InsightsPremium

Track fan behaviors across your links, get artist level insights and send it all to your ad retargeting platforms

Analytics SharingPremium

A shareable link to your analytics results to share with team members like managers, labels and artists

Artist Analytics DashboardPremium

A consolidated analytics dashboard at the artist level across all links and landing pages

Channels ManagementPremium

Organize traffic to your links by where fans come from like TikTok vs. Facebook

Conversion and Attribution ReportingPremium

Track sales and streams from your merch stores and select partners after fans visit services from your links

Also in: Hugging Face, Notion, Smartsheet

Branding(3)

Custom DomainsPremium

Replace ffm.to with a full custom domain or subdomain

Custom Landing Page BrandingPremium

Add your logo and custom favicon to every landing page

Custom SubdomainsPremium

Personalize subdomains off the ffm.to domain

Also in: Lightspeed POS, Lessonly, Setmore

CRM(2)

Fan Base ManagementPremium

Know who your fans are and contact them directly with dozens of ways to collect, organize and sync fan contact info

Fan SegmentationPremium

Sort and segment your fan base by attributes like preferred music services, locations and number of followers

Also in: monday.com, Setmore, HubSpot

Compliance(1)

Privacy Policy and Terms of UsePremium

Add your own custom Privacy Policy and Terms of Use to your links and landing pages

Also in: Insider CDP, Airtable, 1Password

Customization(4)

Customizable Social CardsPremium

Manage how your link previews appear on social media platforms and in search results

Embeddable WidgetsPremium

Embed your landing pages on your own website or other landing page

Landing Page Design Customization

Design backgrounds, button colors and text colors

Pre-Save Text ConversionPremium

Customize your link's description text when it converts on release day

Also in: monday.com, Obsidian, Smartsheet

E-commerce(1)

Custom StoresPremium

Send people to custom destinations, such as your artist's website

Email Marketing(1)

Pre-Save NotificationsPremium

Customize your presave notification emails and send on release date

Also in: Writesonic, Visme, WordPress.com

Fan Data(2)

Email Collection

Collect unlimited fan emails with varying access levels based on tier

Email ExportsPremium

Export your fan contact info

Fan Engagement(6)

Action ButtonsPremium

Add actions like follow or save where fans log in with their service account and share their email

Contest & Unlock PagesPremium

Reward your fans with prizes for taking actions you want

Contest Action PagesPremium

Run giveaways and contests with prizes for taking actions that grow your followings

Fan Referral-Based EntriesPremium

Allow fans to earn extra contest entries by sharing your contest with their networks

Future Save

Deliver all your future releases to your fans by allowing them to subscribe once

Messaging ButtonsPremium

Add buttons for fans to text or message you directly

Fan Experience(1)

Remember Fan's Favorite ServicePremium

Automatically send fans to their preferred service if they've visited a Feature.fm link before

Integrations(3)

Email SyncingPremium

Sync audience contact info with Mailchimp or ActiveCampaign

Google Analytics IntegrationPremium

Send your data to Google Analytics to centralize your data

Google Tag Manager IntegrationPremium

Integrate GTM to have more control over data and events that are sent to third parties

Landing Pages(4)

Artist Bio Links

Connect fans to all of your content with a single Link in Bio for social media profiles

Automatically Add Existing LinksPremium

Automatically pull in your existing Feature.fm links and landing pages to your bio link

Social Profile Links

Include links to your social profiles on your landing pages

Unlimited Links and Landing Pages

Create unlimited smart links and custom landing pages across all tiers

Localization(2)

Language LocalizationPremium

Default texts are automatically translated to fan's preferred languages based on browser language

Territory ManagementPremium

Customize your link's behavior, store orders and destinations by which country your fans visit from

Media(1)

Embed Media PlayersPremium

Embed media players from Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube to play content on your landing pages

Music Distribution(1)

Release Links

Get more streams with a smart link to your music in all services

Music Marketing(5)

Global Release Pre-SavesPremium

Automatically convert your Pre-Save links at the same time globally

Local Release Pre-SavesPremium

Automatically convert your Pre-Save links at the local release time in each timezone

Pre-Save Links

Build momentum ahead of your music release by collecting saves from fans

Scheduled LinksPremium

Create your smart link ahead of time and schedule it to go live on release day

Spotify Multiple FollowsPremium

Additional Spotify profiles, playlists or users that you want followed

Podcast Marketing(1)

Podcast LinksPremium

Grow listeners on your Podcast with a link to all audio platforms

Support(1)

1 on 1 Guided OnboardingPremium

Personalized onboarding support for Pro Artist tier users

Ticketing(1)

Tour and Event LinksPremium

Sell more tickets to shows with a link to all of your tour dates

Pricing

Free

Free
  • Unlimited links and landing pages
  • Limited services available
  • Artist Bio Link
  • 1 Pre-Save service
  • Collect unlimited emails, upgrade to access emails
  • 7 day insight data

Basic Artist

$8/mo
  • Unlimited links and landing pages
  • Limited services available
  • Artist Bio Link
  • 3 Pre-Save services
  • Collect unlimited emails, access 50 emails per link
  • 28 day insight data
  • Full design customization
  • 1 retargeting pixel

Artist

$19/mo
  • Unlimited links and landing pages
  • All available services
  • Artist Bio Link
  • All Pre-Save services
  • Future Save
  • Collect unlimited emails, access 200 emails per link
  • 90 day insight data
  • 1 Spotify Pre-Save
  • Multiple Follow
  • 1 custom domain and 1 custom sub-domain
  • 2 retargeting pixels
  • 3 custom stores

Pro Artist

Popular
$39/mo
  • Unlimited links and landing pages
  • All available services
  • Artist Bio Link
  • All Pre-Save services
  • Future Save
  • Collect and access unlimited emails
  • Lifetime insight data
  • 3 Spotify Pre-Save
  • Multiple Follow
  • 1 custom domain and 1 custom sub-domain
  • Unlimited retargeting pixels
  • Custom stores
  • Email syncing to Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign
  • 7-Day free trial
  • 1 on 1 guided onboarding

Cost Calculator

Keep Paying Feature.fm

Monthly$8/mo
Yearly$96/yr
5-Year Total$480

Build It Yourself

Est. Build Time~4 hrs
Hosting$20/mo
DifficultyVery Easy

Total Cost Comparison

1 Year
SaaS
$96
DIY
$240
3 Years
SaaS
$288
DIY
$720
5 Years
SaaS
$480
DIY
$1.2k

DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 50 features at very easy complexity.

Build vs Buy

Should you build a Feature.fm alternative or buy the subscription? Estimate based on 50 features.

Buy Feature.fm

Better Value
Monthly cost$80/mo
3-year total$2,880
Time to deployDays

Build Your Own

Development cost$24,000
Maintenance$360/mo
3-year total$36,960
Dev time~2 months

Buying Feature.fm saves ~$34,080 over 3 years vs building.

Estimates based on 50 features and a BuildScore of 5/5. Actual costs vary.

Integrations

17 known integrations

ActiveCampaignAmazon MusicAnghamiApple MusicDeezerFacebook AdsGoogle AdsGoogle AnalyticsGoogle Tag ManagerInstagram AdsMailchimpSnapchat AdsSoundCloudSpotifyTidalTikTok AdsYouTube Music