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but lets look at this logistically, they increased their user base by forcing people to log into the site to download stuff which means they also increased their out take of money in streaming as the site became more popular and also at the same time they did that thing with the dj mixes where they forced it's users to not allow downloads if they wanted them to host their work, pretty dumb imo, it would probably cost them less if they just let people download rather than stream
in 2015 they lost something like 50 M, last year twitter invested 70 M but the above ^ happened and they also introduced soundcloud go which is probably hemorrhaging as much money as spotify is
now it's being attacked to hell with bots from everywhere, porn, the lot which means paying customers are being forced to either delete and report about 5-6 bots from each upload they do ( sometimes a LOT more ) or go somewhere else, many take the latter option, this is going to just get worse until they take care of that
imo it's in a state of fatigue right now with not much options, it'll collapse this time i think, i honestly don't know how much more stress it can take at this rate
That's some weak ass response lol .. If i were an investor i wouldn't be eager to put any money there, i mean they are dropping million like crazy and still laid off 40% of their staff but ""We continue to be confident the changes made last week put us on our path to profitability and ensure SoundCloud's long-term viability." Cīmon. Only others big companies that eventually will shut down as well but still have money to waste (like twitter) may do another shot on this one.
But what do i know about this, nothing.. i just use their platform for free and have a few complains
so do i man and i'll continue to until they sort themselves out, i,m not paying good money to upload only to have to sit and get rid of bots everywhere
It amazes me how stupid you have to be to blow 70M in one year and still canīt manage to put the company back on track.
Would be sad if itīs gone, i use it on a daily basis.
And manage to piss off a large part of your audience. I go to it everyday but it doesn't give me much anymore. I will be able to manage without it. But I will be sorry for what it once was, and I will be sorry for the artists that thought it would be better.
Originally posted by TheVrk
it IS incredible isn't it??
STILL pumpin out great set after great set...never cheesed out, never sold out, never lost his touch..
Simply does not get any better than Hernan
^^^ I think they missed that most of their audience didn't really want just another streaming "service". I didn't realise just how bad it was until I read some of what is here. Nobody wins
Originally posted by TheVrk
it IS incredible isn't it??
STILL pumpin out great set after great set...never cheesed out, never sold out, never lost his touch..
Simply does not get any better than Hernan
i hope it can sort itself out, it was an innovation when it first came out, how many times we talked about it now...it will just keep getting worse and worse until it pulls it's own finger out it's behind and does something about it
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