How to Get Reposted by a Bigger Account
Published · updated · by Loopin
A curator account is not doing you a favour — it is filling its own feed. Once you send something that makes their feed better, the ask stops being an ask.
Send something already formatted for them
Look at the last ten posts on the account. Note the aspect ratio, whether they use text, how long the clips are, whether there is a watermark. Send something that already looks like it belongs.
A curator choosing between a clip they can post immediately and a clip they would have to re-edit will take the first one every time, and the difference in quality between them rarely matters.
Make the first two seconds carry it
Their audience does not know you, so the clip has to work with no context at all. That means the loudest bar, movement in frame one, and a text line that is about the music rather than about you.
Anything that requires knowing who you are — an inside joke, a reference to your last release — is dead weight on a curator page.
Ask once, briefly, with the file attached
One message: a sentence about the track, the clip itself, and permission to post it. Not a link to a link, not a request to talk first. Attach the thing.
Say explicitly that they can post it and tag you. Removing the permission question removes the only step that requires a reply before they act.
Interact first, for weeks
Comment on their posts specifically and repeatedly before you ever send anything. A submission from a recognised name in their comments gets opened; the same file from a stranger goes into a folder with four hundred others.
This is the same mechanism as every other relationship in music and it is why the artists who get reposted are rarely the ones with the best song in the inbox.
What to do with the repost
Reply to comments on their post, not just your own. The audience is theirs; the only way any of it becomes yours is if you are visibly present in the thread within the first hour.
And thank them privately, then genuinely support their next few posts. A curator who reposts you once and hears nothing again will not do it twice, and the second repost is worth more than the first.
Frequently asked questions
How do I get a music page to repost me?
Send a clip already formatted the way their last ten posts are — same ratio, same style, no watermark — with a sentence and explicit permission to post it. Curators pick what they can post immediately.
What should the clip contain?
The loudest bar, movement in the first frame, and a text line about the music rather than about you. Their audience has no context, so anything requiring knowledge of you is dead weight.
What should I do after being reposted?
Reply to comments on their post within the first hour — that is the only way their audience becomes yours. Then support their next few posts, because the second repost is worth more than the first.