 Good. Hey everybody, what's going on? It's your man, Kory. Welcome to The Digital Dash, where I'll be giving you guys tips on how to market your songs and get those numbers booming. Now, for those of you who don't know who I am, I'm a digital marketer myself. I specialize in helping artists like you guys get their songs heard through platforms like Spotify, Instagram, YouTube, and a bunch of others. Now, what I wanna talk to you guys about today is a recent power move that the streaming platform SoundCloud has made. I wanna get into how you guys can start to take advantage of this power move, what exactly it is, and how I think it will affect you guys as artists in the near future. So with that being said, let's get right into it. So, what exactly is this power move that SoundCloud has made? If you keep up with SoundCloud in any way, shape, or form, then you've probably heard that they now allow monetizations of the music on their platforms, meaning that you can now make some money because of SoundCloud. Before, the only way that your stuff would get monetized from them was if you were invited to the SoundCloud premiere program, or if you knew someone like your distributor who could help you get your stuff monetized through whatever other means that they may have. So like I was saying before, SoundCloud's premiere program used to be invite only, meaning that SoundCloud pretty much had to ask you to come try it out. That was the only way that you can make money through SoundCloud through them. But now the SoundCloud premiere program is open to all creators who use the platform as long as you meet their basic, bad minimum requirements. So, what exactly does this mean for you guys? It pretty much means that now you have another way to put some money back into your pockets. Now, before, one of the main arguments that I used to hear against SoundCloud is that you were literally giving your music away for free. And why would you do that? Now I know, technically on platforms like Spotify and like Tidal, you're not charging your fans for your music, but at least those platforms were attempting to pay you guys for your streams. I always thought it was kind of weird that with SoundCloud, the main source of traffic, which is you guys, was not being compensated for the amount of work that they put in, unless SoundCloud deemed you worthy to be so. To be honest with you guys, I think that SoundCloud opening up its premiere program is an attempt for them to keep their core consumer-based happy, which is music artists, you guys. I think that SoundCloud has finally realized that they have been driving you all the way to their competitors. Two Spotify, two Apple Music, two Tidal, two Pandora, all of their competing services, and they want you guys back. I think that they want you all to at least seriously consider SoundCloud as a platform that you need to really work and drive traffic too. And they knew that the best way to do so was to finally start paying you guys for the work that you've been putting in. And finally, the part of the video that I'm sure you guys have been waiting for, how can you join SoundCloud's premiere program so that you can start to monetize your music and make some money? Well, like I was saying earlier in the video, you must first meet their basic criteria, which are pretty much as follows. First, you have to have at least a SoundCloud Pro or SoundCloud Pro unlimited account, meaning that you can't monetize your music if you only use their free account. You also can only monetize original music, meaning no remixes, no cover songs, none of that, guys. You also can't have any copyright claims against your account, so if you ever uploaded something that didn't belong to you and you got a claim against it, this may be something that causes you a little trouble. I would definitely look more deeply into it if this applies to you. And lastly, you must have at least 5,000 streams within the last month from countries that SoundCloud Deans eligible. I'll make sure to leave an article about that in the description below so that you can dig a little bit more deeply into it. Now as always, guys, if you feel like you're learning anything today, please like and share this video. Hit those post notifications as well as I wouldn't want you guys to miss anything. Once again, my name is Kory, and I'll see you all next time.