Where to Host Your EPK (You Don't Need a PDF Anymore)

Quick answer: Skip the PDF-in-a-Dropbox-folder approach - build your EPK as an actual page instead, through a tool like Bandzoogle, EPK.bio, or Sonicbids, or a simple page on your own website. It plays your music inline, stays current without re-uploading a new file every time something changes, and is exactly one link to share, no folder-permissions headaches involved.

Having an EPK is only half the job - getting it in front of someone the moment they need it is the other half. The old method (a PDF, a folder of files, uploaded somewhere and shared as a link) technically still works, but it’s not how this is done anymore, and it’s worth knowing why before you build yours the outdated way.

Skip the PDF-and-Folder Approach

The classic method - compile everything into a PDF via a word processor, drop it in a folder with your audio files and photos, upload the whole thing to a cloud drive - genuinely used to be the standard. It still functions. But it has real downsides: nothing plays inline (someone has to download a file to hear your music instead of just pressing play), nothing updates without you re-exporting and re-uploading, and a folder of six separate files is a clunkier first impression than a single clean page.

Use a Dedicated EPK Page Instead

A tool built specifically for this - Bandzoogle, EPK.bio, or Sonicbids are all solid options, or a plain page on your own website if you’d rather control it yourself - solves every one of those problems at once. Your music plays right there. Your bio, photos, and links live on one page instead of scattered across files. And when something changes (a new release, an updated bio, fresh tour dates), you edit the page - you’re not re-exporting a PDF and re-sharing a new link every single time.

This is also just less embarrassing in the moment: a page that opens instantly and plays your latest single beats “hang on, let me find the right version of that Dropbox link.”

When a Cloud Folder Still Makes Sense

Cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive) isn’t obsolete - it’s just not your primary format anymore. It’s still genuinely useful as a backup, or for sending high-resolution photo files and raw audio that someone specifically asked for outside the context of a general press kit. Free tiers cover this easily; you’re very unlikely to need paid storage just for EPK assets.

Try this prompt: If you’re migrating an old PDF-based EPK to a page-based one, paste the text content from your old PDF into an AI assistant and ask: “Reorganize this EPK content (bio, discography, contact info) into clear sections I can paste into a Bandzoogle or EPK.bio page builder, cutting anything that reads outdated or overly formal for a modern one-page format.” You’re restructuring existing content here, not generating new claims - keep everything factually the same, just reshaped.

Sharing It

Once your page exists, sharing it is the easy part: drop the link in an email, a text, a DM, wherever it’s needed. No file-size limits, no waiting on anything, and it opens the same way on a phone as it does on a laptop. That ease is really the whole point - an EPK that’s a hassle to open is an EPK that quietly doesn’t get opened.

For what actually needs to be on that page in the first place, see our full EPK checklist and our step-by-step guide to writing your artist biography.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I still need to build my EPK as a PDF? No - a dedicated EPK page (through a tool like Bandzoogle, EPK.bio, or Sonicbids, or a page on your own site) is now the standard, since it’s clickable, playable, and always current without you re-exporting and re-uploading a file every time something changes.

Is a cloud storage folder still a reasonable way to share an EPK? It still works as a fallback - Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneDrive with a shared link - but a static folder of files can’t play your music inline or update itself, which a proper EPK page does. Use it as a backup, not your primary format.

How do I actually send someone my EPK link? Drop the link directly in an email, a text, or a DM - that’s it. No file size limits to worry about, no waiting on mail delivery, and the person on the other end can open it on their phone in the same tap they’d use to open anything else.

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