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SoundCloud

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69 articles decelerating

SoundCloud has appeared in 69 articles since 2015-05. Coverage peaked in 2020Q4 with 3 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Spotify, TechCrunch, Apple, Apple Music.

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Acceleration
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Coverage Timeline

2025-10-09
TechCrunch

SoundCloud evolves into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features, including playlists based on friends' likes

Music streaming app SoundCloud is evolving into a more social platform with the introduction of new community-oriented features. Bluesky: @tprstly Bluesky: Theo Priestley / @tprstly : Data farming for...

2025-05-10
TechCrunch 8 related

SoundCloud quietly changed its policies to allow the company to use audio uploaded by users on its platform to “inform, train, develop or serve as input to AI”

SoundCloud appears to have quietly changed its terms of use to allow the company to train AI on audio that users upload to its platform.

2022-06-08
TechCrunch 1 related

Linktree announces Link Apps, letting creators embed services from Cameo, OpenSea, PayPal, SoundCloud, and others, discovered via its new Marketplace

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :

2021-02-06
Billboard 1 related

Sources: SoundCloud is preparing to introduce a new payment system that would allow users to pay artists directly

Micah Singleton / Billboard :

2020-11-18
SoundCloud Blog 3 related

SoundCloud says it's rolling out verified badges for users who are “well-known and/or highly searched-for artist, collective, DJ, label, curator or podcaster”

SoundCloud Blog :

2019-03-06
TechCrunch 8 related

SoundCloud now offers SoundCloud Go+ subscriptions to students for $5/mo., a discount of 50%; it's the last major streaming service to offer student pricing

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

2019-02-20
The Verge 9 related

Soundcloud adds a self-distribution feature to its Premier tier, currently in beta, that lets artists publish and monetize their songs on other platforms

SoundCloud announced today that it is adding distribution to its self-monetization Premier program.

2018-10-09
TechCrunch 2 related

SoundCloud expands monetization program to musicians who are 18 and up, pay for hosting, get over 5K streams per month, and only publish original music

Josh Constine / TechCrunch :

2017-05-03
9to5Mac 2 related

SoundCloud debuts The Upload, a Discover Weekly-style playlist that recommends new music

SoundCloud has unveiled a new feature today to help listeners discover even more new music.  The Upload is SoundCloud's answer to the music discovery playlists that have become popular with other stre...

2016-10-07
TechCrunch 13 related

Spotify and Apple Music add support for user-uploaded remixes after deal with music rights management firm Dubset

SoundCloud's big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don't release and that isn't on Spotify or Apple Music.  Or at least they weren't.

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TEXXR tracks 64 Techmeme articles mentioning SoundCloud, dating back to April 2015. The biggest stories include Sources: Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud after its two earlier... and SoundCloud closes $169.5M Series F funding round led by Raine Group and Temasek to stay.... Frequently covered alongside Spotify, TechCrunch, Sarah Perez, Micah Singleton, and Raine Group.

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2025Q4developer +50pts; consumer -100pts; research -50pts

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