SoundCloud on Thursday launched On SoundCloud, a program that will facilitate advertising on the site. Membership initially is by invitation only; SoundCloud will roll it out to a select number of artists. It later plans to bring on more advertisers and make the program available to the general membership. The announcement sparked a mixed response from members. “Really dude?” wrote “creator 1,000,001. “Ads? … “I’m a huge supporter of [SoundCloud] and I gotta be honest here, yall are gonna lose a lot of ‘creators’ over this.”
SoundCloud to Run Ads, Share the Loot
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 22, 2014 06:41 AMSoundCloud on Thursday launched On SoundCloud, a program that will facilitate advertising on the site. Membership initially is by invitation only; SoundCloud will roll it out to a select number of artists. It later plans to bring on more advertisers and make the program available to the general membership. The announcement sparked a mixed response from members. “Really dude?” wrote “creator 1,000,001. “Ads? … “I’m a huge supporter of [SoundCloud] and I gotta be honest here, yall are gonna lose a lot of ‘creators’ over this.”