Discover early audios with Radar

Radar is built for Artists and Repertoire (A&R) teams, labels, artists, and other music teams looking for the next audio before it becomes an obvious trend. It focuses on niche audios at the earliest stage of gaining traction.

Radar and the trending charts

Think of the daily video activity of any audio as a curve: it begins with an upload, gains traction, reaches a peak, and eventually declines.

Radar looks between the upload and the point where wider traction begins. The main trending audios chart covers a later and broader part of that journey, from audios approaching wider traction through audios that have passed their peak.

Create a Radar

1. Open Radar and choose New Radar.
2. Choose the genre or scene you want to scout.
3. Select the countries that matter to your search.
4. Give the Radar a name and choose Create Radar.

Matching audios begin appearing in the Radar after you create it. Return to Radar to see which audios are gaining momentum across each scouting set.

Radar is available with Discovery access.

Read average daily growth

Avg daily growth shows the change in video count divided by the number of days between measurements. Its percentage expresses that daily average relative to the starting count. For example, a 58% increase over two days is 29% average daily growth. The dashboard and API use the same metric.

The latest video count can update before the growth measurements refresh. Any audio with no positive starting count displays New instead of a percentage.

If a Radar has no matches yet

A new or tightly filtered Radar may take time to find matching audios. Check the selected genres and countries, then return later as new activity appears. If one Radar remains empty while your other Radars show recent matches, contact support with the Radar name and its filters.

Use a Radar through the API

Open the Radar and choose Copy API endpoint. Send a GET request to that address with an API token from API Access. The endpoint returns the current matching audios in pages of 50 and supports up to 100 audios per page.

Create Radars in the dashboard or send POST /api/v1/radar with a token that has Create, update and archive Radars permission. Include a name and at least one genre or hashtag, plus optional countries. The response includes the new Radar's ID; tracking continues in the background.

With the same permission, PATCH /api/v1/radar/{id} renames a Radar or changes its genres, hashtags and countries, and DELETE /api/v1/radar/{id} archives it. Read-only tokens can list your Radars with GET /api/v1/radar but cannot change them. Changes made in the dashboard or through the API apply to the same Radars and affect later API responses.

Next steps

Compare the main audio and song charts, or learn the difference between audios and songs.