WEB & APP UPDATES
AUG 28, 2025
v1.56 – Host Dashboard Redesign
Mini Update:
This week I’m launching the updated design to the host Dashboard. As I prep to release the next patch of more in-depth financial metrics and tracking, this dashboard update will get us in a position to be ready for that drop.
You’ll find all the same buttons and data on this dashboard. But now it looks pretty!
AUG 10, 2025
v1.55 – The Hit Play Billboard Launch 🚀
The Hit Play Billboard is a community-driven project.
Each week, Hosts who are Billboard Certified can:
- Spotlight (Favorite) your songs – unlimited Spotlights allowed
- Nominate 1 song per week to the Billboard – making a nomination very exclusive!
Billboard songs are voted on by YOU, the community of artists each week (Monday–Friday)
- If you’ve had a song reviewed on the platform, you can vote!
Friday at Midnight – Weekly Winner Announcement!
The song with the most votes will be crowned the Hit Play Billboard Winner and will receive:
- 🏆 Exclusive Hit Play Billboard Badge – only 1 given out per week!
- 🔗 Special queue link button – shows viewers you’re a Billboard Winner
- 📢 Social post about your song on Hit Play’s social media accounts
- 💵 A small cash prize!
- 💾 Archive placement forever
Every Nominated Song Gets Exposure 🕺
All nominated songs for the week will be featured in our weekly playlist newsletter, with a rapidly growing email list of 32,000+ subscribers.
Our goal with this Hit Play Billboard Newsletter is to create a focused listening and sharing campaign within our community, whereby each person subscribed to this email list gives every new nomination a listen. Together, we can impact the lives of many artists in a real and meaningful way, fulfilling one of the core missions of Hit Play.
Enter the Billboard from the Mobile App or the Web.
You can vote for 1 song/artist every week! Choose wisely. The winner gets all the stuff mentioned above.
Check out the archive from past weeks, connect with artists, and listen to their sounds!
APRIL 17, 2025
v1.54 – Artist Digital EPK’s and Social Links
Today marks the launch of the digital EPK release! Artists will now have all social link settings, along with a 350-character bio that can be filled out. These social links, bio, and your image will be accessible alongside your track anytime you submit to a live room.
Patch Notes:
- All Show List added to the home page of mobile app.
- More social icon/options added for Host settings.
- All social options and bio added to Artist settings.
- Artist EPK pop-ups for every entry now available in live rooms.
- EPK’s can be seen in the Host control center, and the live rooms on the web version.
- They can be opened on a song that is currently being played, or ones in line as well.
Artist EPK on mobile
This is what a completed Artist EPK with all social links will look like.
Artist EPK on Web
Below is an image of the EPK in a room as well as an EPK in the control center where hosts will view it.
March 22, 2025
v1.52 – Session History and Active Show List
Today I’ve launched some long-awaited features with tons more to come over the next few months. This week, I’ve dropped a new session history and a show list of active and popular shows.
Patch Notes:
• Session History is now added to the web control center for all hosts.
• You’ll see a tab called “Session History” that will give you a complete list of all the songs listened to in that session, and you can recall them and listen to them, as well as access their link.
• Accidentally skipping a song by clicking “Next Song” twice can now be undone by going to session history, bringing back the skipped song, and then, after listening to that, bringing back the song you had meant to leave in the queue.
• A Show List has been created on the home page. This list of shows is all live streams that have earned at least $100 on Hit Play and are currently active as a streamer.
• To get on the “Show List” all you need to do is earn a minimum of $100 on Hit Play. Total earnings order the shows, so you can climb the roster by growing your overall earned amount on Hit Play.
Session History
A Session History tab is now available to the right of the main Song Queue in your Control Center.
Selecting the Session History Tab
When toggling the session history tab a new window will appear in the same location as your queue. You can bring any of the songs back to the “Now Playing” section by clicking the small curved arrow next to the submission. You may do this as often as you’d like.
January 7, 2025
v1.51 – Integrated Skip & Boost for Web Submissions
Today I am launching a wildly popular feature request, and adding a payment system to all web submission rooms. Now everyone can skip or boost regardless if they’ve got the app or not.
Patch Notes:
• Easy-to-use integrated Skip and Boost checkout system added to every web room on the app.
• All Skip and Boost customization will automatically be handled based on your settings (Host Settings found in-app)
• Paypal & On-Page Debit/Credit checkout options (Will accept any debit/credit card even Venmo or CashApp cards)
• Upon approved payment, entries are automatically submitted.
• Unlimited paid entries allowed in line – Only 1 free entry at a time per artist.
Note: Hit Play will not offer refunds for any payments through the web submission system, also any skips or boosts paid for through a web submission system will not be secured or saved by Hit Play, meaning if the Host leaves or Goes Off Air, you can lose your place in line and your payment. In rare cases, we will handle refund disputes between a Host and an Artist, but only in situations where a payment is made and a service is not distributed. Join the app to get more control over your purchases!
New Checkout Flow
A new button will appear if your paid lines are open, this is shown right above the free submit option.
Ex: We have 1 Credit Boost turned off in these examples.
Skip and Boost options in Checkout Flow
Your custom settings in the app govern what is shown in this area.
On-Page Checkout
Whether a user decides to use the built-in debit/credit flow or the Paypal checkout, they will stay on the page for the whole process. Once a payment is confirmed the submission will be automatically entered.
October 29, 2024
v1.5 – Web Submissions & Pricing Update
Web Submissions are now Open!
• Hosts can create their own web submission room by going to their dashboard on the web portal and clicking “Customize Room”.
• Artists can submit to your room through a web browser now!
• The web submission portals run inside TikTok, Instagram, Youtube browsers etc.
• Artists can have 1 free submission in the web submission portal at a time (until skips go live)
• Users can see the line/queue on the web.
• Artists who submit using the web submission will not be required to sign up, login, or have a profile. But they are limited on their capabilities.
Pricing Update
After a lot of deliberation and chatting with hosts, we have decided to move away from a commission-based earnings approach to a fee-based one. Hosts will no longer pay a commission for Hit Play. Instead a small fee will be added to checkout of all credits on the platform.
New Web Submission Rooms
Ex: Custom Background with Custom Font Colors and Lines
Online Web Submission Form
This form is embedded in each live room
Sun. September 23, 2024
v1.4.4 – Host Update
Customize Your Room
You can now upload any background to your mirroring page. This allows you to brand the screen to your own channel when displaying the line to your show.
• Upload an image (2500×2500 max)
• Modify the font color on the page
• Modify the line background (You can make it any percentage of opacity)
Bug Fixes:
- Boosts improperly updating on the mirroring page (*Resolved)
New button on the Dashboard
> Customize Room <
Choose a file and then Upload
Modify other elements like font color and line background color
You can modify the opacity level of the line background as well.
You can modify the opacity level of the line background as well.
Here’s a look at a mirror page with a moon background, white text, and semi-transparent grey lines.
Sun. September 9, 2024
v1.4.3
Boost & Line Update:
You can now enter 1 song in the free line.
You can now enter up to 5 songs in the paid lines.
Onboarding Page is skipped after you’ve logged in once (login lock)
Simplified the boost system:
- Added clarity to the language
- Only 1 & 5 credit boosts now
Hosts can turn on off 1 credit boost option (in settings)
Hosts can turn off boost option in free line and/or paid lines (in settings)
General updates to instructions around the app.
Bug Fixes:
Login Lock Persistence
- You will now stay logged in after you register/log in once. *Resolved.
The Boost number next to songs was disappearing in line when another entry would come in, or a song was moved in line. *Resolved
Now in the Host settings, you can toggle on/off the various boost options for your free or paid lines.
Here is how the artist will see their songs and boosts now.
Once the artist has a song in line (free or paid), they can use the boost option.
After selecting how much they want to boost, the artist will select the track to boost. They will only be able to choose songs depending on the boost options the host has allowed.
Mon. August 5, 2024
New updates:
- Android Fixes!
The following Android device fixes have been made:
1. Queue Scroll in Rooms
2. Upload a song with just a link
Other Mobile Updates:
1. Removed “Credits this Live” from the public view
Updates for Hosts
1. Volume Slider is Live!
Mon. July 8, 2024
New updates:
- iOS & Android Version 2.0 Live (1.4.0)
We have officially launched the rollout version of the app in all stores. Hit Play is approved on Android and iOS. We’re getting ready to launch a handful of shows in the coming weeks!
Sun. June 16, 2024
New updates:
- Ban Users from your live
- Ban users as a host from the mobile app or the web portal.
- The user will see a notice when trying to enter a room they are banned from.
- Ability to un-ban a user from your room who you had previously banned.
Coming soon:
- Artists can remove their entry from your room after a 60 second wait time.
Mon. June 10, 2024
New updates:
- Boosts & Custom Boost Amounts
- This creates an immense amount of line possibilities
- Requested: Users now have the ability to upload songs with just a link. No file required.
- You can open & close your free line or your paid lines in any combination.
- Requested: Email Collection of each entry for your Marketing.
- Easy CSV export of daily and monthly reports.
Coming Soon:
- Ban users from your room on Hit Play.