Mixcloud has announced that almost four hours of content is being uploaded to their platform every minute.
They say that 650,000 users have uploaded six million mixes.
Mixcloud also says that 200,000 mixes were uploaded in the last month. The average length of an uploaded mix is 45 minutes.
Mixcloud is a competitor to SoundCloud, but is focused on long-form uploads such as podcasts and DJ sets. The platform has likely received a boost as users are becoming skeptical of SoundCloud. Mixcloud’s platform has been around for five years now.
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So where is the money?
Are we witnessing the birth of bulk rape machine of music and musicians?
Let’s just convert Radio and streaming to $100B musicstore!
no
http://support.mixcloud.com/customer/portal/articles/157244-copyright-is-mixcloud-licensed-to-play-copyrighted-music-
Nina, I do not buy it.
Who and at what point will separate with cash to provide for royalties mentioned in this grandozo statement.
Google ad as the guy takes away 45 minutes of music essence?
Caliber of business nerds above and beyond Spotify boys!
Hear the founder of Mixcloud admit to inaccurate reporting. Justifying their actions with basically “at least some artists get paid, its better than nothing.” And then proudly tell a room of artists that they’re covered by using the same lawyers Pandora does. (Cuz that holds so much weight in the artistic community) http://youtu.be/7QmsrNnSj88
Glad your friends are making some good money though Nina. Congrats.
“My friends” lol
Thanks Nina!
An excellent service. Unlike SoundCloud, it actually pays out to rights-holders also.
(If uploaders ID the tracks, that is; there should be some automation developed for this, but I assume this is still difficult to ID tracks in the context of a mix/podcast).
The better question is, where is the music? Lost in an ocean of dreck.
It’s sprayed by gigantic spray guns allover the UNIVERSE!
Soon all of us will choke from overdose of free music and the Earth will IMPLODE to new future and sanity!
INVESTORS OF: Shazam, Soundhound, Gracenote, Pandora, SiriusXM unite and finish the MUSIC COMMUNIZM! Google is your only obstacle!
…or alternatively GOOGLE, the master digital music Monk, please abandon the middle ages and your religion of ads and marry hot and sexy MUSIC for fresh $50B a year dowry and happiness for ALL FOREVER!
WOW!
Thanks @nina for linking to our FAQs – “our friend”!