Originally Posted by Mike Halloran
Hmmm... I host songs on Soundcloud but I never listen to anyone else on the platform. I know that I get listeners but I haven't seen a dime of revenue. My Soundcloud renewal notice showed up in my email today. I think I need to do some investigating.
You'll need to jump through some hoops to get any of that ad revenue. See: https://artists.soundcloud.com/monetization/soundcloud

But don't worry - if you don't go that route, they'll happily monetize your tracks without your approval.

Under their privacy rules, they state:
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We process your data to deliver content or advertisements and measure the delivery of such content or advertisements to extract insights about our website. We share this information with our partners on the basis of consent.

However, there's no option to not consent to:

  • Deliver and Present Advertising Content - 524 partners
  • Match and combine data from other data sources - 364 partners
  • Link different devices - 331 partners
  • Identify devices based on information transmitted automatically - 501 partners


That's an obscene amount of data sharing "on the basis of consent".

-- David Cuny
My virtual singer development blog

Vocal control, you say. Never heard of it. Is that some kind of ProTools thing?