Before you begin doing any submission, it is important that you know that we can only accept original video content and thus, your video can’t contain third-party content that you do not own. Here are the basic requirements to distribute your video Must contain 100% original material (audio and visual). Must be professionally produced or have some production quality. Only officially produced music videos accepted (album art, track, lyric videos* are not accepted by all partners ) Cannot contain excessive or full frontal nudity, explicit drug use or graphic violence. Cannot contain the release cover artwork. Your video cannot exceed 10 minutes. No logo or MTV style credits in the corners of the video *Lyric music videos with lyrics stylized into a produced video are accepted. Other lyric videos that fall under the following styles: karaoke, static text over graphics or stock elements or just have the lyrics on the lower third of the video will be rejected.

TECHNICAL SPECS (AUDIO) Format: AAC Channels: Stereo Sample Rate: 44.100 kHz for HD, 48 kHz for 4K Bit Rate: 320 kbps CBR TECHNICAL SPECS (VIDEO) Compression Type: ProRes – Preferred for HD or H.264 – Also Acceptable File Format: .mov (ProRes) or .mp4 (H.264) Dimensions: 1920×1080 preferred for HD, and 3840 x 2160 or 4096 x 2160 preferred for 4K Frame Rate: Native (No less than 23.98 FPS) Bit Rate: Unrestricted (at least 150 mb/s is Preferred for HD, If H.264 at least 50mb/s) and (at least 400 mb/s is Preferred for 4K, If H.264 at least 250mb/s) The video must be de-interlaced and be set up for multi-pass encoding NO frame re-ordering in your encoding settings Do not include front or end slates, title or end cards, etc. The size of your video WILL be a large file due to the recommended bit rate and video format (H.264/ProRes). Please export all encodes using Compressor or Quicktime. If your video file is: send us a Dropbox or Google Drive download li

For VEVO and other partners, they do require some image assets and additional information in order to properly complete a profile for the artist that is featured on the music video. In addition, it is important that you also label your filename correctly to avoid delays. File Labeling (Your file must be labeled as per below) Artistname_VideoTitle_Version.mov Example: LittleRed_Maryhadalittlelamb_Clean.mov No spaces and/or special characters allowed (: ! # , @ $ % ? “ ‘) PR Photo and Banner submission Your PR photo and banner image must be formatted as follows. Artist PR photo (it cannot be a logo or graphic, at least 2400px x 2400px at 72dpi, centered and some space from the edges ) for VEVO Youtube channel creation * VEVO will use this photo for your artist profile on all VEVO platforms. Artist Banner Image/Graphic: 2560 x 1440 px or 2560 x 423 px is recommended for a new YouTube Vevo channel in this size.

To deliver your music video you first need to use a program to deliver your music video to us. You can use: WeTransfer.com, Dropbox, or Google Drive. You will simply need to upload to one of those providers and once that is complete, you can proceed to our video submission form and include the link of your video. Once that is done, you are done! We realize these are a lot of steps and preparation but doing the steps in this guide will reduce the time it takes to deliver your music to some of the most important providers in the world! If your video file is: Under 2GB – send to us using Wetransfer.com that will come up after you pay the fee ( Free to use to send files up to 2GB ) Over 2GB+ – Omit using Wetransfer.com and send us a Dropbox or Google Drive download link to video@tajik.music