SoundCloud
More info
- Creator
- Alex Ljung, Eric Wahlforss
- Released
- Owner
- SoundCloud Ltd. (Berlin)
- Type
- Audio / music sharing
- Origin
- Stockholm/Berlin
- Website
- soundcloud.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org
YouTube for audio — DJ mixes, demos, podcasts, the "SoundCloud rap" phenomenon of 2015–2018.
Founded by two Swedes in Berlin in 2007. Waveform visualisations with comments at exact timestamps became the signature. The platform for breakout artists: Post Malone, Lil Pump, XXXTentacion all broke out there. Nearly died in 2017 (layoffs, funding panic), survived. Competition: Spotify, Mixcloud (more DJ-focused), Bandcamp (more fans pay artists directly).