Soundcloud“Hear the worlds sounds”

By

Traevon Bohannon

What is soundcloud ?

Soundcloud makes it easy to find new music

Popularity of soundcloud

Competitors

Advantages over competitors

• Soundcloud is 100% free

• Used and backed by top industry artists

• Caches songs to allow for shorter loading times

• Directly allow content to be uploaded

• Soundcloud is often described as the “YouTube of music” but is so much more than that.

• Soundcloud gives over 40 million independent and mainstream artists a platform to distribute their music catalogues to over 200 million registered “listeners”.

Alexa ranking

Global Rank:178

US Rank:162

Soundcloud allows users to be Listeners or Artists.

Listeners are free members who are allowed to stream uploaded content, comment on artists pages and “repost” the songs that they enjoy the most.

Registered SoundCloud users have the power to listen to as much content as they wish, as well as the ability to download up to 100 songs from the site.

SoundCloud also allows its musician users to upload up to 120 minutes of audio to their profile. All of these features are free of charge and are available to all SoundCloud users as soon as they have a registered profile with the site.

SoundCloud also provides a paid service

Mobile Applications

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