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RSS Oct 30, 2025 1:19pm · Hypebot
New SoundCloud All-in-One Artist Subscription: More Control, 100% Earnings
The new SoundCloud All-in-One Artist Subscription offers musicians and creators more control of streaming, fan funding, merch, vinyl and more with fewer hands in their pocket. The post New SoundCloud All-in-One Artist Subscription: More Control, 100% Earnings appeared first on Hypebot.
RSS Oct 30, 2025 12:30pm · Hypebot
Live Music Industry News: GigSalad gets Cool • Billboard Power Players • More
In the latest live music industry news, Dave Cool has been named VP of Marketing & Business Development at GigSalad. Cool (his real name) spent 14+ years at Bandzoogle, most recently as Chief Relationship Officer. This includes after its 2023 acquisition by DistroKid. The post Live Music Industry News: GigSalad gets Cool • Billboard Power Players • More appeared first on Hypebot.
RSS Oct 30, 2025 12:20pm · Hypebot
AI and the Future of Music Licensing: From Uncertainty to Opportunity
Music supervisors—the people who choose and license songs for film, TV, and ads—are often the gatekeepers to massive exposure for indie songwriters. A single placement can reach millions of new listeners and open career-changing doors. But as AI-generated tracks flood the market, authentic, human-made songs are more valued than ever. The post AI and the Future of Music Licensing: From Uncertainty to Opportunity appeared first on Hypebot.
RSS Oct 17, 2025 10:58pm · Payusnomind
Spotify's New AI Initiative Is Terrifying
Spotify recently announced plans to develop its own AI products in collaboration with the three major record companies — Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony. Here’s an excerpt from their announcement, followed by Payusnomind’s interpretation of what it really means: Some voices in the tech industry believe copyright should be abolished. We don’t. Musicians’ rights matter. Copyright is essential.…
RSS Sep 15, 2025 6:10pm · Payusnomind
Substack vs Beehiiv vs Kit (2025): Best Newsletter Platform for Creators
Substack might be the number one newsletter management service for creatives. One major reason for that is the price - you can’t beat free! But, it also has a ton of great features that integrate Podcasts, Live video streaming, and messaging. Technically, in its current form, I could argue it’s more of a social media platform than a newsletter but I digress.…
RSS Sep 6, 2025 9:46pm · Payusnomind
Ultimate Indie Artist's Guide: Tools You Need, Lies You Don't
In this guide, we give our best pick for every tool and service you'll need to launch and optimize your career as a music artist.  No lies, no affiliate hustling, only an honest breakdown of what we think are the best options and why.  Download PDF to Read Offline Music Distribution: Top 3 Choices Landr: Visit Landr.com 20% Off Amuse: Visit Amuse.io 10% - 30% Off with Promo Code PAYUSNOMIND Venice Music: Visit Venicemusic.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:49pm · Payusnomind
Web3 Music Monetization: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
NFTs: Digital Ownership or Digital Illusion? What Is an NFT? NFT stands for non-fungible token. At its core, it's a digital certificate of ownership that lives on a blockchain - a decentralized, public database maintained by computers around the world. Unlike cryptocurrencies (which are fungible, meaning one unit is the same as another), NFTs are unique, and each has a token ID that acts like a registration key.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:43pm · Payusnomind
Digital Real Estate: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
Digital Real Estate - B2B When we talk about digital real estate, we’re not talking about directly monetizing music. Instead, it’s about leveraging the value that music creates. Music opens the door to opportunities - opportunities that can be monetized by using your digital presence strategically. Artists operating online have digital properties. These include their YouTube channel, where music is shared through videos.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:40pm · Payusnomind
Selling Music Royalties: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
Advances: Monetizing the Monetization There’s monetizing your music, and then there’s monetizing the money your music earns. In recent years, fintech platforms have introduced a new model of music financing: catalog advances. These aren’t payments for streams or licenses - they’re lump-sum payouts offered to independent artists based on their past royalty earnings. In short, you're borrowing against your future royalties.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:34pm · Payusnomind
Monetizing Music Through Licensing: Ultimate Guide to Monetization
Licensing How your music earns money from TV, games, covers, AI, and more Music licensing is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood forms of monetization in the industry. When someone pays to use your music - whether in a TV show, video game, cover version, or even an AI-generated remix - they’re paying for a license. That license gives them legal permission to use your work, and in exchange, you get paid.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:30pm · Payusnomind
Selling Music Direct: Ultimate Guide to Monetization
Direct Sales Selling music today is a charity. Music fans are donating to support your career, not because they need your music, but because they want to see you continue making it. Here's why. Vinyl records served a purpose and solved a problem. They allowed people to bring music out of clubs and off the radio into their homes. Cassette tapes improved on that by giving listeners the ability to fast-forward, rewind, and pause songs.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:20pm · Payusnomind
YouTube Monetization: Ultimate Guide
YouTube Monetization YouTube has always provided artists with expansive opportunities for monetization. In its early days, creators could integrate direct ads from their partners, having YouTube manage the delivery of impressions and track views. It also offered the ability to sell video on demand. While complaining about low royalty payments from YouTube, the industry never took advantage of any of these tools.…
RSS Sep 1, 2025 1:17pm · Payusnomind
SoundCloud Monetization: Ultimate Guide to Music Monetization
SoundCloud has quietly built one of the most artist-friendly monetization systems in the music industry, especially for independent creators. While Spotify pays based on total global streams (the pro-rata model), SoundCloud’s Fan-powered model pays you based on how much your actual fans listen to you.…
RSS Aug 15, 2025 6:08pm · Payusnomind
How to Go 100% Independent as an Artist — Own Your Website, Links, and Revenue
Let's talk about becoming completely independent as an artist. No music distribution, no Spotify, maybe even no YouTube. Total digital control. I’ve already given away the Ultimate Indie Artist's Guide, which walked through getting set up as an artist: distribution, publishing, publishing admin, digital performance rights, and more. This is the next level: setting up as a music business for true digital independence.…
RSS Aug 7, 2025 12:28am · Payusnomind
Ad Budgeting: Why Artists Quit Too Soon
Let me start by saying this isn’t a sales pitch. I’m not trying to convince you to pay for an advertising service or to advertise at all. This is information I’m sharing because, for some strange reason, I wake up thinking about this stuff. Artists often get caught up in the numbers game - quantity over quality. They want to see a lot happen. A lot of sales, a lot of listeners, a lot of fans.…
RSS Jun 30, 2025 2:41pm · Payusnomind
Hypeddit Review — Functional, Frustrating, and Forgettable
Hypeddit is a music marketing service that primarily provides artists with Release links. It reminds me a lot of commoditized products on Amazon. You see multiple sellers pushing the same product, where the only thing that sets them apart is the price. Avoiding a race to the bottom requires sweeteners, but adding extras can drive up expenses.…
RSS Jun 30, 2025 2:28pm · Payusnomind
Toneden Review — From Fan Actions to Total Breakdown
🧩 Bio Links ❌ NoToneden doesn’t support standalone bio link pages. It’s mostly campaign-focused. 🔐 Pre-saves ✅ Yes – Full DataPre-saves come with full access to fan data (when opted in). On paper, it’s great. 🕓 Future Save ❌ NoNot supported. No loss here. 🌍 Release Auto-Route ❌ NoNo ability to redirect users to country-specific platform URLs. 🎁 Contests ✅ YesYou can build contests with “unlock” actions.…
RSS Jun 30, 2025 2:25pm · Payusnomind
Linkfire Review — Smart Links with Industry Muscle, But User Pain
🧩 Bio Links ✅ YesCreate rich landing pages linking to all your destinations — music, merch, podcast, and social. Works well, clean layout, fully customizable. 🔐 Pre-saves 🟡 Yes – Limited DataYou can get some data, but Spotify restricts access unless fans opt in. Linkfire doesn’t give you everything Feature.fm does. 🕓 Future Save ❌ NoNot supported. Not a huge loss, but still missing compared to others.…