ApoloneReviews of apolone.com

Don’t do it.

I'd recommend staying away from Apolone. Their money back guarantee is not a money back guarantee. They will refund credits but not cash, at today they would not. I've run 3 campaigns and all were less than satisfactory. One campaign is running as of writing this review. So far no results. In the current campaign I received two different feedbacks from the same person, for the same song, on the same day, and were wildly different. On a previous campaign similar results with no placement on any playlist. My first campaign did result in a placement, but was absolutely the wrong playlist for the type of song. Dance songs don't belong on Heavy Metal playlists. Not surprising that I did not get a lot of streams from that playlist. I did contact Apolone and received a very prompt response, and was given a 10,000 credit refund to my account. What I'm going to do with 10,000 more useless credits I've no idea. Oh and the songs from the last two campaigns were placed by other services on multiple playlists. I believe Apolone is pitching the wrong playlists, assuming the pitches are to actual playlists. I've taken screenshots of the campaigns, results and feedback.

I got their "2 millions eyes on your music" package from their sales call, very excited at first, expected a lot for the cost. It fell so far below my expectations that I feel compelled to tell anyone possible that this company is a complete scam. They posted 4 videos from strange accounts Id never heard of including political accounts and conspiracy accounts. They used my music on 4 b-roll low effort videos with zero promotion other than getting to use my music. And these were posted the first day of a 2 month campaign. They did absolutely nothing afterwards. When the 2 month campaign ended and they views did not meet their metric, they promised a full refund but then only delivered a half refund stating the "content team fulfilled their portion" for the 4 lazy videos, 2 of which instagram removed. They have not responded to further requests to honor their original agreement. Through the whole process they have been rude, combative and gaslighting. Their service was not worth a dime, and their continued avoidance of accountability is extremely concerning. If I could give zero stars I would. DO NOT WORK WITH APOLONE, THEY WILL STEAL YOUR MONEY AND TAKE ZERO RESPONSIBILITY.

They seem to me to be a total scam. They claimed 3 reviewers rejected my song but tune core only had 2 listens for the month and I imagine those were me. They took 3 weeks to even get what they claimed even tho they told me if a reviewer does not respond in 72 hours they move on to another. I saw no evidence of that. Even trust pilot seemed skeptical of their positive reviews.

I purchased an Apolone campaign after being presented with estimated results of 500–1,500 streams, 80–150 new followers, additional reach of up to 45,000 listeners, a 30-day money-back guarantee, and promotional claims regarding playlist reach and exposure. The issue is not that I expected guaranteed results. The issue is that the expectations used during the sales process did not align with what was ultimately delivered. After reviewing the playlists, campaign activity, and actual performance, the campaign fell significantly short of the estimates and projections that were used to market the service. When I raised these concerns, I was directed back to the Terms of Service rather than provided with a meaningful resolution. I also noticed playlist ratings, feedback, and campaign-related information appearing after concerns had already been raised regarding the quality of the campaign, which reduced my confidence in the transparency and reliability of the reporting. Additionally, the feedback and pitching activity I received was largely associated with playlists reporting relatively small listener counts. Based on the playlists presented to me, it is difficult to understand how the campaign could realistically achieve the listener reach and performance estimates that were used during the sales process. Customers should pay very close attention to the distinction between estimated results presented in marketing materials and what is actually guaranteed under the Terms of Service. Based on my experience, those were not the same thing. I requested a refund and was informed that refunds are generally handled as store credit despite the prominent marketing references to a 30-day money-back guarantee. Based on my experience, I would not purchase this service again.

I don’t even know where to begin. I guess my hope is someone will read this and run the other way. First their presentation is where they spend their efforts. It was well put together on a zoom call. What we were promised was 2 million impressions through highly specialized Instagram reels that were specific to our song and genre. They had a team of people who were going to piece it together and would be content specific. What I got was about 4-5 reels that were absolute embarrassing trash. The impressions had to be bot generated. The comments were bizarre. And for what they created the views were no doubt fake. I reached out to them multiple times to schedule a call. I got a response but still nothing scheduled. I’m so tired of companies taking musicians hard earned money and doing nothing. Spend your money elsewhere.

This service is a complete scam. I advise anyone to keep looking elsewhere because this is not where you want to spend your money. The service these people provide is completely fake. There may be a handful of actual curators, but not the tier of curators that you are being promised. Most of them are bots, and a extremely high amount of them don't exist at all. So, you'll see generic messages where curators are declining your submission to their playlist, but they all have the same pre-canned response, which is not completely uncommon to have pre-canned responses available for people to choose from. But when you research these curators, the majority don't exist on any platform, and certainly the not on the platform that they're actually saying they pitched it to. So, continue to move on. If you've been scammed by these people, contact me, because we are filing a class action lawsuit against them.

I really wanted to like this service after seeing their ads on social media. Unfortunately, my experience has been subpar. I started with a small campaign to test their service. I paid $39 for a chance to be put onto active Spotify playlists. What I received is being added to one playlist that has over 1000 followers but apparently only a few active listeners. I realize Apolone doesn't control the curators and what they want to add to their playlists. However, after only be added to one playlist out of 3 chances, I have only seen about 50-70 plays over the past 25 days. That isn't worth $39 at any time. I have used other services in the past few weeks similar to Apolone and have had better results for less cost. When I let Apolone customer service know that I thought paying $39 for their service was criminal, I received an email stating how they don't control the curators and other factors. What they do control is what curators they send the song to, so maybe they should send the song out to more playlists to avoid an unhappy customer? When a song is only accepted by 1 curator I would think Apolone would understand a customer is going to be unhappy. Well, here I am, unhappy. For my discontentment, Apolone offered me a 10% discount on a future promotion. Why would anyone want to spend more money with a company that hasn't produced decent results is beyond me. It should be beyond them too. I can say with certainty if Jaxson used his own service and got 50-70 streams of a song for $39 and was offered a 10% discount ($3.90 savings for the promotion I used) for another another unreliable chance to get streams, he would say no, emphatically. Which is what I am saying now. Please, for the love of all this is good, try a different service. My success rate elsewhere has been much better with several of my songs getting over 300 streams during that same time without Apolone.