Official press and media kit, v1.2, July 2026

KushTunes
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01 / About

What KushTunes is

One-liner

KushTunes is the music distribution and event ticketing platform built for independent African artists.

Short description (under 50 words)

KushTunes puts independent artists on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, TikTok and 30+ platforms in under 48 hours, and lets them sell tickets to their own shows. Artists keep 100% of their royalties and withdraw straight to bank or mobile money. Built in East Africa, ready for the world.

Full boilerplate

KushTunes is a music distribution and event ticketing platform built for independent artists across Africa. Artists upload a master once and KushTunes delivers it to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Boomplay, Audiomack and more than 30 other stores in 180+ countries, typically within 24 to 48 hours, with free ISRC and UPC codes, daily analytics, and zero commission. Royalties stay 100% with the artist and can be withdrawn to a bank account or to mobile money (M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN MoMo) in local currency. The same platform powers event ticketing with QR check-in, tiered pricing, and mobile-money checkout. KushTunes serves artists in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, South Sudan and beyond.

Mission

To put every independent African artist on the world's stage, and pay them every cent they earn there.

Vision

An Africa where a song recorded in Juba on Friday streams in Tokyo by Monday, and the artist owns the masters, the money, and the moment.

02 / Brand story

The name carries a kingdom

Kush was the ancient Nile-valley civilization whose steep, sharp pyramids at Meroë still stand, built by a culture that traded with the world on its own terms. That is the idea inside KushTunes: African creativity has always been world-class; what it needed was infrastructure that treats it that way.

For decades, an artist in Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaam or Juba faced a broken path to the global stage: distributors priced in dollars for markets that pay in shillings, payouts that required bank accounts many artists don't have, and commissions that quietly taxed every stream. KushTunes removes every one of those walls: upload once, reach 180+ countries in 48 hours, keep 100% of your royalties, withdraw to the mobile money account already in your pocket. Then sell tickets to your own show from the same account.

Our mark holds the whole business in one image: an eighth note and a punched ticket, carried in one open groove: the record, the spotlight ring, the world the music travels. The electric lime is a stage light cutting through a dark venue. The black is the night the music happens in. Your music, your show, one groove.

03 / Company facts

Numbers you can print

100%
Royalties artists keep, zero commission
30+
Stores & streaming platforms
180+
Countries reached
48H
Typical time from upload to live

Platform

Distribution to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, TikTok, Boomplay, Audiomack and 25+ more · free ISRC & UPC codes · daily cross-DSP analytics · royalty splits · sync licensing · playlist pitching · airplay charts.

Ticketing & payouts

Event ticketing with QR check-in, tiered pricing, real-time sales and anonymous purchase · checkout and payouts via M-Pesa, Airtel Money, MTN MoMo and bank transfer, in local currency.

Verify time-sensitive figures with [email protected] before publication.

04 / Logos

The logo system

Every version ships as SVG and transparent PNG in four colorways: dark, light, mono white, mono black. Use the dark version on black or dark photography, light on white, mono over anything busy. Keep clear space equal to one ticket-width of the mark.

Primary lockup, dark SVGPNG
Primary lockup, light SVGPNG
Vertical lockup, dark SVGPNG
Icon mark, lime SVGPNG
Icon mark, mono white SVGPNG
Icon mark, mono black SVGPNG
Wordmark, dark SVGPNG
Square lockup, dark SVGPNG
Monogram, KT SVGPNG
Watermark, 40% white SVGPNG

05 / Color

Official palette

Dark is the brand's home. Lime is a spotlight, not a floodlight: keep it under 10% of any composition. Click any swatch to copy its hex.

Kush Lime
#C4FF14, Primary accent: CTAs, the mark, key stats
Void Black
#0A0A0A, Primary background, the brand’s home
Pure White
#FFFFFF, Text on dark; light-mode ground
Lime Press
#B9F000, Hover / pressed states
Lime Deep
#66B100, Large accent text on light
Lime Forest
#4A7C00, Small accent text on white (AA-safe)
Charcoal
#121212, Cards on Void Black
Slate
#1A1A1A, Elevated surfaces on dark
Smoke
#888888, Muted text on dark
Ink
#111827, Primary text on light
Graphite
#374151, Secondary text on light
Fog
#6B7280, Muted text on light
Mist
#F5F5F5, Tertiary light surface
Paper
#FAFAFA, Secondary light surface
Ember
#E8390A, LIVE badges & alerts only

06 / Typography

Three voices

All three faces are free for commercial use, no licensing required for partners.

Your music.
Everywhere it matters.

Big Shoulders 700-800 for headlines and stats, always uppercase · Google Fonts

KushTunes puts independent artists on 30+ platforms in under 48 hours. Keep every cent of your royalties. Withdraw straight to mobile money.

Satoshi 400 / 500 / 700 for body and UI (fallback: DM Sans) · Fontshare

Payouts straight to mobile money, M-Pesa · Airtel · MTN MoMo

JetBrains Mono 400-700 for labels, stats and ticket codes · Google Fonts

07 / Voice

How we sound

Principles

  • Short declaratives. One idea per sentence.
  • Second person, present tense. You upload. We deliver.
  • Numbers before adjectives: "48 hours", never "blazingly fast".
  • Zero jargon. If an artist in Juba wouldn't say it, we don't write it.
  • We say artists, never "users" or "content creators".

Tagline

Your music.
Everywhere it matters.

Approved alternates: "Distribution + ticketing for Africa" · "Royalties stay yours" · "Straight answers. No fine print."

08 / Downloads

Asset bundles

Everything a journalist, partner, sponsor or video team needs. Files follow the naming convention kushtunes-{category}-{descriptor}-{colorway}.

09 / Usage

Quick rules

Do

  • Use supplied files, never rebuild or retype the logo
  • Dark version on black; light version on white; mono over photos
  • Keep clear space: one ticket-width on all sides
  • Minimum sizes: mark 20px, horizontal lockup 96px wide
  • In video, use the supplied corner bugs at ≤90% opacity

Don't

  • Don't recolor, add gradients, shadows, outlines or glows
  • Don't rotate, skew, mirror or crop the mark
  • Don't place lime on white for text, or lime on lime
  • Don't set the wordmark in another typeface
  • Don't create new lockups or co-brand without the partnership rule

Full rules live in the brand guidelines (also in the kit as PDF-ready HTML and Markdown).

10 / Media contact

Talk to us

Press & partnerships

[email protected]
Response within one business day.

Everything else

kushtunes.com/contact
Instagram @kushtunesapp · TikTok @kusshtunes

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