Re:SoundCloud is here to stay
by azinman2 on Friday August 11, 2017 @01:43PM
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Kind of a YouTube model? Is this not currently possible on SoundCloud? (I don’t actually know...)
The problem is how to pay for the commercial licenses for all the songs free users listen to, or that you listen to but don’t support, in addition to their overhead. YouTube eventually figured this out, but it took them a long time and they had the benefit of being part of Google (cash, talent, existing ad network & tech, huge audience, etc). SoundCloud at least has the benefit of hosting audio instead of video, so their bandwidth and storage costs are far lower.
The problem is how to pay for the commercial licenses for all the songs free users listen to, or that you listen to but don’t support, in addition to their overhead. YouTube eventually figured this out, but it took them a long time and they had the benefit of being part of Google (cash, talent, existing ad network & tech, huge audience, etc). SoundCloud at least has the benefit of hosting audio instead of video, so their bandwidth and storage costs are far lower.