Popular and Free, SoundCloud Is Now Ready for Ads

Post by anigbrowl » Thu, Aug 21, 2014, 6:10 PM UTC

JonnieCache wrote: post #33

aikah wrote: post #30

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> I've seen people DJing at parties using two browser windows with Youtube. And ? DJing is about mixing music sources seamlessly, wherever they come from.I wouldnt trust the network during a gig though ,but there is nothing shocking in getting your music from Youtube.

Wilfully playing out pirated, recompressed lossy files and calling yourself a DJ is the height of lameness. If you're going to profit from someone elses work without paying them, try not to make it sound like shit as well.

Post by ffog » Fri, Aug 22, 2014, 2:25 AM UTC

Post by tripzilch » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

abraxasz wrote: post #28

dts wrote: post #18

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Hey there, I work at SoundCloud. One thing that might not be totally clear in our messaging about this right now is that ads will only play against tracks premier members have chosen to monetise. If you aren't monetising your tracks, your listeners won't be affected.

If so this should really have been made clearer in the press coverage because it is very different from the way I and probably other people understood it. I understand that soundclound would need a way to make money, and what you describe seems like a very reasonable way to proceed. However, a youtube-like or spotify-like ads system would likely be much harder to sell to users.

Post by tripzilch » Mon, Aug 25, 2014, 6:24 PM UTC

Tiksi wrote: post #22

Oculus wrote: post #8

I'm not sure this model will work like it did with Youtube. You don't put Youtube on in the background/at a party while friends are over. You sit down and watch a video (hence you're willing to sit through an advertisement). Music streaming that is broken up by advertisements is why people dislike radio and are moving to online services. The reason artists like Soundcloud is it gives a way to distribute music directl…

I'm not sure I agree with the first part of your comment. Spotify already does this, and in my experience plenty of people leave spotify on as background music and/or at a party. My old roommates did this pretty frequently, and while it was annoying at first to hear ads between songs, as long as they're short enough, you eventually just tune them out. If anything I'd say that the youtube style ads that play before yo…