News - SoundCloud introduces ads and paid ad-free subscriptions

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The music streaming service will start to monetise visitors in order to pay musicians.

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[ZaO]

I've suggested it to them a few times before, that they monetise the service somehow. I'm not ignorant to the fact that it must cost a lot of money to run a website like that. But I just find it weird how they have these paid accounts which we must get if we want stats (free accounts don't get any stats), yet there is no way to make money from the platform. You can't even sell your music on there. I just think it's a bit odd to expect artists to pay for a service on a site where there is no possibility of getting some money back, while the listeners just get everything for free. So it's good to see that they've finally taken steps to allow people to earn from plays. It just sucks that by the looks of it, you'll have to have a top tier account to recieve any of the revenue. If you're just a small artist who can't expect to make much, you won't benefit from it. You'll still be losing out. They need to make it so we can sell our tracks directly from Soundcloud as well.

But at least this is a start

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I only use Soundcloud to listen to podcasts, so I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to be hearing TWO adverts for Squarespace every time.

[ZaO]

I only use Soundcloud to listen to podcasts, so I hope this doesn't mean I'm going to be hearing TWO adverts for Squarespace every time.

I've no idea if the adverts will be audio, or just visual. But I'd like to think that there will be some kind of control for the content creators to decide how and when the ads will be delivered. I'm pretty sure the paid for accounts won't have to listen to ads though. So you can probably support content creators and the site through that method instead.