Interesting how Bandcamp and Soundcloud are kind of the same thing in terms of letting people upload audio into playlists, but one seems to be doing fine while the other's likely shutting down. Like, was it hard to let people sell albums through Soundcloud? What's the logic there?
@gargron I think SoundCloud had an attractive no-ads-free-content-only subscription. They made it too expensive though : 5 bucks/month. And failed to promote it: I found out about it in an article about them letting go their staff, while using SoundCloud several times a week.
@gargron a couple of months ago they did audio ads, but now that you mention it: haven't heard any in the last month or so.
@gargron what I'm saying is they have a way to monetize what they're good at: streaming free, less well known music. They were too busy promoting the go subscription. But maybe a few bucks a month per user still wouldn't cover their costs.
@koos Never seen any ads on SC (well, adblock 😂) their subscription never appeared like a value proposition to me.