In this article

You'll learn how to:

• organize Briefs inside Projects
• create and publish a Brief
• add briefing information and a close date
• share a Brief with contacts and mailing lists
• track recipient activity on Brief emails
• review and organize incoming submissions
• duplicate Briefs to save time on repeat workflows

Start by organizing Briefs inside Projects

In the Briefs area, you can create either a Project or a Brief.

A Project acts like a folder that can hold multiple Briefs. This is useful when you are working on a film, series, campaign, album rollout, trailer search, or any other job that may involve more than one music request over time.

If you also send standalone requests that do not belong to a larger job, create a Project called something like "One-off Briefs" so those requests still stay organized in one place.

Use a Brief to request and organize submissions

A Brief is where you create the actual music request. It combines a written brief, a dedicated submission page, a close date, and an organized receiving area for incoming playlists - all in one place.

In that sense a Brief works like a combination of a custom Inbox and a Channel. It gives you a dedicated place to receive submissions while keeping everything tied to the request that generated them.

Write the Brief clearly

When creating a Brief, include the information people need to respond well. This might include a description of the music you need, creative direction, mood, genre, tempo, or reference ideas, usage context, important rights or delivery requirements, and a submission close date. The clearer the Brief, the better the submissions are likely to be.

Add a close date for submissions

Each Brief can include a close date. After that date the submission page will no longer accept new submissions. This is useful when you need to keep a project moving and want a clear deadline for rights holders, suppliers, or collaborators.

Publish the Brief before sharing it

Once the Brief is written, click Publish. Publishing does not send it to anyone automatically - it simply makes the Brief ready to be shared. This lets you prepare everything first, then decide when and how to send it out.

Share the Brief with the right people

Once published, the Brief can be shared by email from DISCO. Each email is tracked, so you can see whether someone opened the email or clicked through to the submission page. You will also receive notifications about that activity, making it easier to know who has seen the request and who may still need a follow-up.

Use contacts and mailing lists to target the right suppliers

Briefs work best when your contacts are well organized inside DISCO. You can group contacts into mailing lists for different supplier types - major labels and publishers, indie labels, indie publishers, one-stop agencies, production libraries, specific territories, and so on. This makes it much easier to send the right Brief to the right group without rebuilding the recipient list each time.

Duplicate existing Briefs to save time

If you often send similar types of requests, you can duplicate an existing Brief instead of rewriting everything from scratch. This is useful when the structure, language, or supplier groups are similar but the project or creative direction has changed. Duplicate the Brief, update the details, and share it with the relevant group.

Receive submissions back into the Brief

As people submit music, the submissions appear inside the Brief. Each submission arrives as a playlist, so you can review incoming music in a structured way rather than sorting through loose files or scattered links. This makes Briefs much easier to manage than a traditional email-based briefing workflow.

Review and pull useful files into your workflow

Once submissions arrive, you can listen through them and pull the useful content into the rest of your DISCO. From the submitted playlists you can drag tracks into new playlists, save submissions into Channels, bring tracks or playlists into Browse, and build shortlists from the strongest options. The files are already in DISCO and ready to use - no downloading and re-uploading needed.

Wrap up

Briefs make it much easier to send organized music requests, reach the right people, and manage what comes back. By combining a written request, a submission deadline, recipient tracking, and a structured receiving area, they replace a workflow that would otherwise be scattered across email threads, file transfer links, and spreadsheets. If you simply need someone to send you files without the structure of a written request and deadline, use an Inbox instead.