SoundCloud introduces ads to monetise service & pay royalties to artists

News: 22nd August 2014 by Louise Dodgson under Artist Managers, Music Publishing, Record Labels, Selling & Distributing Your Music

SoundCloud has made some rather large changes this week and introduced advertising to their service in the US as a means to paying royalties onto artists, artists, labels and publishers for plays of their music. They have faced pressure for a while now over their free to listen service - whilst some musicians are happy to share their tracks for free and gain exposure, others were keen to find out when they would be remunerated for streams. So here we are in a new chapter of SoundCloud's story, find out more via the links below...