SoundCloud File Sharing

I am part of a music duo and we have recently been recording an album. The engineer for the album asked us to begin sharing our work in progress files through a website called SoundCloud. SoundCloud basically acts as an FTP upload area to quickly share your music files with others. Many musicians are using the service and it is quickly becoming a big deal.

Now SoundCloud has an option to distribute music through customizable widgets. They are described as wanting to becoming the ‘Flickr for Music’ and already have over 160,000 artists on board.

The distribution aspect of SoundCloud is what really impresses me. We continue to see small companies grow their businesses by taking on more demands of musicians. It will be soon when we will see smaller companies taking on marketing, promotion, web presence strategies, etc., for artists.

So, for start ups out there hoping to make it big with musicians, offer services that free musicians to concentrate on their art. If you can create value, musicians will pay because everyone will be better off. The more you can do to make it easier on the musician, like creating widgets as SoundCloud did, the more users will flock to your company.

Stay tuned,
Erik
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