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I just listened to two songs on Soundcloud, and was required to listen to 30 seconds of advertisements before each songs would play. When I clicked the information icon on the ad, the popup said: Why ads?
Every time you see or hear an ad, artists get paid. They're how we keep SoundCloud free for listeners.
Want to lose the interruptions? Go ad-free and continue to support your favorite artists with SoundCloud Go. I'm paying SoundCloud to host my songs, so it's not "free" to me. And whatever "artist" is getting paid when advertisements pop up on my songs, it's not me. I've not marked any of my songs for monetization, but that's not stopping SoundCloud from collecting fees from advertisers.  I hate the idea of breaking links I've posted, but I also hate that someone has to listen to an advertisement if they want to listen to my song. And that's doubly true when I'm paying to host it and someone else is getting making money off it. Time to start looking for somewhere else to host my music.
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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.
Thanks for the heads up!
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Time to start looking for somewhere else to host my music. Are you familiar with DistroKid? Worth checking out. DistroKid From their website: DistroKid is the easiest way for musicians to get music into Spotify, Apple, Amazon, Tidal, TikTok, YouTube, and more. Unlimited uploads, keep 100% of your earnings, and more features than any other music distributor. Millions of musicians rely on DistroKid. Pay only €20.99 to upload unlimited albums & songs for a year and get in stores 10-20x faster than any other distributor. [EDIT: It's nice that their website recognizes that I'm in the EU and switches to Euro pricing. Being an American expat, I know how to read that price, even though the proper way to write it is 20,99 € (we use a comma instead of a decimal point). Still, they're the best independent music distributor I'm currently aware of.]
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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/soundcloudBut 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: 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".
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Are you familiar with DistroKid? Worth checking out. Thanks! I've also been building a list as I listen to people's songs. 
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I switched over to ReverbNation from Soundcloud for that very reason, can't stand all the ads on Soundcloud. Distrokid is good if you want to get on Spotify and iTunes, etc.
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The ads are avoidable. I believe that there are mechanisms available to "Block Ads".
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