Everything you build with Artist Kit

A plain-English guide to every part of the page editor. Learn what each setting does, when to use the setting and how the setting works. Open a topic to read more.

The editor and how it works

What the page builder is, who edits, and how your changes go live.

What the page editor is

Your Artist Kit page is one mobile-first site with your bio, music, videos, gigs, gallery, news, merch, newsletter and contact details behind a single link. The editor is the settings panel you use to build and update the page. No code and no templates to wrestle with.

The page is organised into sections (Home, About, Music, Videos, Gallery, Gigs, News, Merch, Contact, Newsletter). Turn on the ones you want, fill them with content and style them to match your brand. The editor shows exactly what your visitors see.

Who sees and edits the settings

The settings panel appears only when you are signed in and viewing your own page. Visitors, promoters and fans see the finished page and nothing else.

One account manages one artist page. If you perform under more than one alias, create a separate account for each.

Saving and publishing changes

Each section saves on its own and your changes go live right away. There is no separate publish step to forget.

Edits go live immediately, so preview on a phone before you share a fresh link. The page is built mobile-first because most promoter and fan clicks come from a phone.

Free plan vs. Pro at a glance

The free plan covers the essentials: your own URL, all the core sections, a contact channel, a collaboration profile in the artists directory, and up to 10 items each in Music, Videos, Gigs and News.

Pro adds the Gallery section, the Merch section, newsletter email collection, background videos, a custom domain, your analytics dashboard and unlimited items in every section. Pro also removes Artist Kit branding from your page. Each Pro-only feature below carries a Pro tag.

Your identity and basics

Name, username, genres, location, fonts, and the press kit toggle.

Artist name

Your display name. The name appears across your page and wherever your page is referenced on Artist Kit.

Use the name you release and perform under, so promoters and fans recognise you instantly.

Username (your URL)

Your username is the address of your page, artistkit.co/yourname. Pick a short, memorable name to match your artist name. You will put the address in Instagram bios, on flyers and in emails.

Change your username later from General settings. The old URL stops working the moment you do, so update every place you shared the old address. Artist Kit tidies what you type into a clean web address automatically.

Some names are reserved for system and help pages, and a username taken by another artist is unavailable. If either applies, Artist Kit asks you to pick another.

Genres

Tags describe your sound, so visitors see at a glance what you do. Add the few genres you genuinely play instead of every loosely related style. A focused list reads as more credible to promoters.

Add up to 5.

City / location

Where you are based, chosen from a global city list for consistency. The city tells promoters your home base and which markets are easy to book you in.

Start typing and pick the matching city from the suggestions. Leave the field blank to hide your location.

Heading and body fonts

Two font choices set the typographic feel of your page. The heading font styles section titles and hero text. The body font styles paragraphs and details.

Pair a distinctive heading font with a clean body font to make the page feel like yours without touching the layout. There are nine of each to choose from.

Your hero and navigation

The first thing visitors see: layout, logo, menu and background.

Page layout

Controls where your navigation menu sits relative to your logo: menu on the left, menu on the right, or a centered arrangement.

Layout changes the feel of the header. Centered reads as bold and minimal, left or right reads as classic. Pick the option with the best balance for your logo.

Logo and visibility

Your logo or wordmark in the header. Upload an image logo, or turn the logo off to show your name as text. Text works well if you have no logo yet.

Use a clean, high-contrast image so the logo reads on any background. Logos are JPG, PNG or SVG files, up to 3MB.

Menu labels and order

The navigation links to each section (About, Gigs, Music, Videos, Gallery, News, Merch, Contact, Newsletter). Rename and reorder the links to tell your story in the order you prefer. A DJ might lead with gigs, a producer with music.

Background mode: color or image

Your hero background is either a solid color or an uploaded image. Switching modes changes which controls appear below.

A color keeps the page fast and lets a background effect stand out. An image sets a strong mood the moment the page loads.

Background color

The solid color behind your hero. The color always stays in place as a fallback, even when you set an image or video, and shows while media loads.

Pick a color with enough contrast against your text, so your menu and name stay readable.

Background image

A full-bleed image behind your hero, such as a press shot, artwork or texture.

Use a high-resolution wide image and check the image does not clash with your text. A darker image keeps light text legible. Background images are JPG or PNG files, up to 3MB.

Background video

Pro

A looping video behind your hero adds motion and atmosphere. A clip of a live set shows your energy.

Keep the clip short and subtle. Your background color shows underneath while the video loads, so choose colors to complement each other. Videos are MP4 or WebM files, up to 3MB.

Background video is a Pro feature.

Text color

The color of your menu, buttons and hero text. Set a color with good contrast against your background so everything stays easy to read.

Background effect

An optional animated overlay on your hero adds movement and personality. There are fourteen effects, covered in the next section.

Hero background effects

Animated overlays give your hero motion and a distinct mood.

What background effects are

Background effects are animated layers drawn over your hero. They add a signature look without code, and they sit on top of your chosen background: color, image or video.

There are fourteen to choose from. Most let you set a color or small palette, and some add extra controls such as density or speed. Effects are decorative. If you want full focus on a press image, choose None.

The full set of effects

None: no overlay, for a clean hero.

Rays, Aurora and Gradient sweep: flowing light and color washes.

Smokey, Bubble, Orbs and Animated blobs: soft drifting shapes in colors you choose.

Sparkle, Confetti, Constellation, Pulse rings, Dot grid and Fall beams: particle and pattern effects.

Choosing colors

Give an effect two or three colors from your artwork or logo to make the effect feel on-brand.

Keep effect colors close to your background for a subtle look, or contrast them for a bolder one. Either way, check your hero text and menu stay readable over the animation.

Hero blocks

Featured content and calls-to-action in your hero.

What hero blocks are

Hero blocks are content cards you place in the hero area to feature what matters most right now: a new release, a key show, a headline or a custom call-to-action. They sit above the rest of your page.

Put your most important update here, because every visitor sees the hero first. Add up to six blocks.

Custom blocks

A block you build yourself from an image, some text and up to three buttons linking anywhere you choose. Set the block's width, the image's size and shape, make the image a link, and switch on a frosted-glass background.

Use a custom block for a bespoke announcement or a call-to-action with no matching section item. Images are JPG or PNG files.

Reference blocks (music, video, news, gig, merch)

Feature something you already added instead of rebuilding the content: a release, video, news post, upcoming gig or merch item. The block stays in sync with the original item.

Reference blocks are the easiest way to spotlight your latest single, next show or shop drop without duplicating details. Past gigs and unavailable merch are not offered, because the hero is for what is ahead.

Email blocks

A Pro-only signup form for collecting emails from the hero. Title and details are optional, so you show only the form if you prefer. Size and glass background work the same as on other blocks.

Signups join the same list as the newsletter section, including double opt-in confirmation. An email block works even when the newsletter section is hidden.

Social & streaming links

Icon links point your page to everywhere else.

Adding social links

A row of icon links to your profiles and platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Twitch, X, Facebook, Threads, Bluesky, Deezer, Amazon Music, Beatport, Mixcloud, Resident Advisor, Tidal, Pandora, Linktree, email, and a generic link for anything else.

Paste a link and Artist Kit detects the right platform and icon automatically. Visitors use these links to follow, stream or message you.

Order and alignment

Drag links to reorder them so your most important platform sits first. Choose how the row aligns: left, center, right, or stacked vertically on either side.

Lead with the place you most want traffic to go, usually your main streaming platform. Pick an alignment to balance the rest of your hero.

Controls every section shares

Heading, colors, background, layout and entry animation, shared by About, Music, Videos, Gallery, Gigs, News, Merch, Contact and Newsletter.

Heading, colors and background image

Every content section has its own heading, text color and background color, plus an optional background image. Each section gets a distinct look and stays part of one page.

Alternate light and dark sections for rhythm down the page, or style one section differently to make the section stand out.

Section layout width

Set each section to wide, default or narrow to control how much horizontal space the content uses.

Narrow suits text-led sections like About. Wide suits visual sections like Gallery or a marquee of gigs. Default sits in the middle.

Entry animation

Entry animation sets how a section moves into view as a visitor scrolls to the section. The options are None, Fade up (the default), Fade, Drop in, Slide from left, Slide from right, Zoom in and Stack on scroll.

Subtle motion makes the page feel polished. Keep the animation consistent across sections unless you want one section to make a deliberate entrance.

About section

Your bio and profile image.

About text

Your biography: who you are, what you do and where you are based. Promoters and journalists read this section to decide whether to book or feature you, so lead with what makes you distinctive.

About is a rich-text field, so add emphasis, links and structure. Keep the text tight and skimmable. A few strong sentences beat a long paragraph.

About image, size, and shape

An optional profile or press photo shown alongside your bio. Set its size and shape (square, soft-rounded, circle or abstract corners) to suit the layout.

Use a sharp, well-lit shot. A circle or soft-rounded shape reads as friendly, square as editorial. Images are JPG or PNG files.

Music section

Your releases, with streaming links and tracklists.

What the music section does

Showcases your releases as cards with cover art and links out to every platform where they are available. Fans press play here and labels gauge your catalogue.

Set the card size and feature one release to lead the section. The free plan holds up to 10 releases. Pro is unlimited.

Per-release details

Each release has a title, a release date and a type (Single, EP, Album, Mix, Live, Demo, Remix or Other), plus a cover image and an optional short description.

Cover images are JPG, PNG or WebP files.

Streaming links

Each release carries its own streaming links: Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Deezer, SoundCloud, Amazon, YouTube, Beatport, Bandcamp or Other. Fans open the release wherever they listen.

Add the platforms relevant to the release. You need at least one, and no more than you want.

Tracklists

EP and Album releases list their tracks, which gives the card more depth for fans browsing your catalogue. Singles and other types need no tracklist.

Videos section

Embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos.

What the videos section does

Embeds your videos (live sets, music videos, visualisers) so visitors watch without leaving your page. Video shows what your live show or production feels like.

Like Music, Videos has a card size setting and a featured video to lead the section. The free plan holds up to 10 videos. Pro is unlimited.

Adding a video

Paste a YouTube or Vimeo link and Artist Kit recognises the platform and sets up the embed. You copy no embed codes. Most YouTube and Vimeo link formats work, including youtu.be short links, Shorts and player links.

Artist Kit fetches a cover image automatically where one is available, or you upload your own JPG, PNG or WebP. Give each video a clear title so the section is easy to scan.

Gallery section

A visual portfolio of photos.

What the gallery does

Pro

A photo gallery for press shots, live photography and behind-the-scenes images. The gallery adds a visual portfolio next to your bio and music.

Choose how the gallery displays: a tidy grid, a Pinterest-style masonry layout or a swipeable carousel. The gallery holds up to 20 images.

Gallery is a Pro feature. On the free plan you see an upgrade prompt instead.

Adding gallery images

Pro

Upload images one at a time or in a batch, and Artist Kit arranges them automatically. Use high-quality, consistent photography for a professional impression. Images are JPG, PNG or WebP files.

Gigs & events section

Your upcoming shows and tour dates.

What the gigs section does

Lists your upcoming shows with date, venue and city in chronological order. Past dates roll off automatically, so the list always shows what is ahead with no cleanup from you.

Promoters see you are active and fans find out where to catch you. Display gigs as a simple list, a scrolling marquee or a cards grid. The free plan holds up to 10 gigs. Pro is unlimited.

Per-gig details

Each gig has a date, a name, a venue, a city and an optional description for extra detail such as support acts, set times and age limits.

Ticket status and links

Each gig shows a ticket status: none, Sold out, Tickets available or More info. Tickets available and More info display a clear button linking to your ticketing or info page.

Marking a show Sold out adds social proof. A ticket link turns interest into sales right from your page.

News section

Announcements, press, and updates.

What the news section does

A feed of updates such as release announcements, press features and milestones. Returning visitors and press see you are active and what is new.

The free plan holds up to 10 news items. Pro is unlimited.

Per-news details

Each item has a title, a short description and a date, plus optional longer details, a link to the full story elsewhere and a thumbnail image.

Keep titles punchy and descriptions to a sentence or two. Use the link to send readers to the original article or post.

Merch section

Showcase products with photos, prices, and shop links.

What the merch section does

Pro

Showcases your products as cards with photos, a display price and a Shop button opening the product URL you provide, on Bandcamp, Shopify or another store. Artist Kit processes no payments and takes no cut. Fans buy on your shop, and your page shows them what to buy.

Display merch as a grid, a carousel or a scrolling marquee, and set the card size to suit the look. Merch is a Pro feature. On the free plan you see an upgrade prompt instead.

Per-item details

Each item has a title, a price (freeform text such as $45), a product URL, an optional description and an availability state: Available or Unavailable.

An item marked Unavailable stays on the page with a badge, so sold-out drops still show. Unavailable items are not offered for a hero reference block, because those are for what is buyable now.

Product images

Each product needs 1 to 3 photos, and the first is the cover. Use a JPG, PNG or WebP under 3MB, between 500px and 4000px on each side.

Clear, consistent product shots make the section feel like a real shop, with no need to leave your page.

Where merch shows up

Products appear in the Merch section on your page, on a dedicated listing at artistkit.co/yourname/merch, and in the site-wide merch browse at artistkit.co/merch. Fans find your drops beyond your own link.

On Pro, analytics tracks merch shop-link clicks separately, so you see which products get the most attention.

Contact section

How promoters, press and fans reach you.

Contact items

A set of labelled contact methods, for example Booking, Press or Management, each with the relevant email, phone or instructions. Each person reaches the right inbox.

Separate booking from management and press, and enquiries land in the right place from the start. Add up to six.

Social links in contact

The social and streaming links you set up in the Home section appear here too. Visitors who scroll to Contact find every way to reach and follow you in one place.

Getting found by other artists

Tell other artists what you are open to, what you help with and what you are looking for.

Read the full collaboration guide

Open to opportunities

The master switch for the whole feature, at the top of the Collaboration settings. Switch the feature on and your selections go live in the artists directory. Switch the feature off and Artist Kit keeps your selections for next time but hides them from everyone.

Collaboration is available on every plan, including Free.

The three groups

Open to covers the opportunities you want to be part of: features and guest spots, co-writing, session work, remixes, live shows and touring, support slots, gig swaps, B2B sets, joining a band, cross-promotion and feedback.

I offer help with covers what you bring to someone else's project: vocals, rap, guitar, bass, drums, keys, strings, brass, songwriting, production, remixing, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, DJing, live performance, photography, video, artwork, content creation and mentoring.

I'm looking for uses the same list, phrased as the person you need (a vocalist, a producer, a mixing engineer), plus band members and a support act.

Pick up to 12 in each group. Being specific works better than ticking everything, because the artists who find you are then the right ones.

Choosing from the list

Tags come from a fixed list instead of free text, so a filter always matches an offer. If one artist wrote "mix engineer" and another wrote "mixing engineer", a search would miss half the people.

If something you need is missing from the list, use the "Missing something? Let us know" link at the bottom of the Collaboration settings to tell us.

What visitors see on your page

Collaboration adds no section to your page. A small handshake icon appears at the end of your social links. Clicking the icon opens a dialog titled Open to collaborating, with your selections grouped under three headings.

The icon appears only after you switch the feature on and save at least one tag.

Being found in the artists directory

The artists directory has a filter panel with a checkbox for every tag in all three groups, and visitors combine the checkboxes with genre and city. Each artist card also shows what you are open to.

Free-text search reaches your tags too. Searching "drummer" finds artists offering drums as well as artists looking for a drummer.

If you are not showing up

The directory lists only artists who have finished onboarding, set at least one genre and filled in their About section. Check those three first.

Then make sure Open to opportunities is switched on and you pressed Save. Selections go live only after you save the section.

Search and sharing

How your page looks in search results and shared links.

Page title and description

Search engines and shared links use the title and description. A clear title (your name plus what you do) and a compelling description improve how you appear in search and how often people click a shared link.

Keep the title concise and the description to a sentence or two.

Social share image

The preview image shown when your page is shared on social platforms and in messages. A strong, on-brand image gets far more clicks than a default crop.

A 1200×630px JPG or PNG works best, the standard size social platforms display.

Favicon

The small icon in the browser tab and bookmarks. A custom favicon, such as your logo mark, makes your page feel finished and easy to spot among open tabs.

Use a square JPG or PNG.

Newsletter section

Collect emails from fans on your page.

What the newsletter does

Pro

Adds a signup form to your page where fans leave their email for updates on new music, shows and more. Customise the heading, details copy, email placeholder and button text, and choose a layout: Form left, Form right or Stacked.

A hero email block also collects emails, and signups join the same list even when the newsletter section is hidden. Newsletter is a Pro feature. On the free plan you see an upgrade prompt instead.

How signups are confirmed

Pro

Signups use double opt-in. After a fan enters an email, the fan gets a confirmation message, and only confirmed addresses join your list. Typos and fake addresses stay out.

The confirmation email also includes a remove link, so fans leave the list themselves without contacting you.

Managing subscribers

Pro

From the editor, see your latest subscribers, open the full list with search, remove individual emails and download a CSV export.

Only confirmed addresses appear. Unconfirmed signups stay out of the list until they click the link in their email.

Sending emails

Pro

Artist Kit collects and confirms the list but sends no newsletter campaigns. Export the CSV and send from your own tool, such as Mailchimp, Gmail or whatever you already use.

Electronic press kit (EPK)

A downloadable one-page summary for promoters and press.

What the press kit is

When enabled, your page offers a downloadable EPK, a tidy, print-ready summary a promoter or journalist saves and passes on. By default Artist Kit generates the EPK from your content: your name, genres, location, bio, releases and contact details, styled with your chosen fonts.

You keep no separate PDF. Update your page and the generated EPK reflects the change.

The Press kit section settings

Press kit has its own section in the editor, right under Contact. Set the heading, entrance animation, text color, background color and a background image, exactly like your other sections.

The settings panel also has a Download button, so you grab the current press kit yourself at any time.

Showing the press kit and what the press kit needs

Use the Show press kit section toggle to add the press kit to your public page. The toggle becomes available once your page has the content the generated kit needs: bio text in About, at least one release in Music and at least one Contact item. Uploading your own file also enables the toggle.

If the toggle is disabled, add those three pieces of content or upload a custom press kit.

Uploading your own press kit

Pro

Prefer to supply your own EPK? Upload a .zip (up to 30MB) and visitors download your file instead of the generated one. This is a Pro feature.

Replace the file at any time and Artist Kit removes the previous upload automatically, or delete the file to fall back to the generated press kit. Removing or replacing always cleans the old file from storage.

What to put in a custom press kit

A strong press kit bundles your bio (long, short and one-line), high-resolution photos with photographer credits, logos, music and streaming links, press quotes, proof of draw and clear booking contacts, packaged as a .zip with clearly named folders.

For a full walkthrough of what to include, how to structure the folders, which PDFs to add and how to create the .zip, see our press kit guide.

Pro and your subscription

What Pro adds and how billing works.

What Pro adds

Pro

Pro lifts the free-plan limits and adds the gated features: the Gallery section, the Merch section, newsletter email collection, background videos, a custom domain, your analytics dashboard, and unlimited items in Music, Videos, Gigs and News. Pro also removes Artist Kit branding from your page.

Pro suits artists who have outgrown the essentials and want a fully branded, unlimited page.

Managing your subscription

Upgrade, and manage or cancel an existing subscription, from the subscription controls in the editor.

If you cancel, your page stays online on the free plan. Paid-only features revert to free defaults and Artist Kit preserves your content, so you pick up where you left off if you resubscribe.

Custom domain

Point your own domain at your Artist Kit page.

Read the full custom domain guide

Connecting a domain

Pro

A custom domain puts your page at your own address, for example yourname.com, instead of artistkit.co/yourname. A custom domain is the most professional option once you own a domain.

Enter the domain in the editor and you get the DNS records to add at your domain registrar. Once you add them, the connection verifies and the editor shows the status. DNS changes take a little while to take effect.

Custom domains are a Pro feature.

Setting up with your registrar

You add two records wherever you bought your domain: an A record on @ pointing to 216.150.1.1, and a CNAME on www set to the unique value shown in your editor.

We have step-by-step guides for GoDaddy, Namecheap and Google Domains (now Squarespace). Open the full custom domain guide above to pick yours.

Analytics

See how your page performs.

Your analytics dashboard

Pro

Analytics show how many people visit your page and when: total views, today's views and recent visits. You see which posts, campaigns or press features drive traffic.

A spike after an Instagram post or an email blast tells you where to put your energy next.

Analytics is a Pro feature.

Account and getting more help

Signing out, deleting your account, and reaching us.

Signing out and deleting your account

Sign out from the editor's account controls. Deleting your account is there too. Deletion is permanent: your page comes offline and Artist Kit removes your data from active systems, so delete only if you are sure.

Still need a hand?

If this guide did not answer your question, the FAQ covers common questions about pricing, data and accounts, and the contact page reaches the team directly. We aim to reply within one business day.

Bug reports and feature requests shape what we build, so tell us what you saw or what you are missing.

Ready to build your page?

Everything above is waiting in the editor. Start with your name and a bio, and add sections as you go.