At 8/26/17 06:40 PM, AliceMako wrote: Soundcloud is probably not the greatest example to take on board in this equation here unless you wanted a case study of how this funding model might potentialy not work against hemmorrhaging money.
Despite losing tons of money Soundcloud does make millions of dollars - if NG made what Soundcloud is making, our top artists would be making bank right now in rev share because we don't have a gourmet cafeteria and nonstop cocaine party going on (I don't know if they have an actual cocaine party going on I just picture that with all well funded sites).
In regards to tweaking prices, i don't know if charging more helps in the long term, it might though? As an aside, we might want to conjure up more resources/edumacational material here for people on how to make a living doing what they do as the absence of this being common knowledge and the user base being generaly as broke as they are seems to go hand in hand through life.
We have plans to help boost peoples' Patreons and Twitch streams, which are decent monetization sources for people who put in the extra work on them. These are tough times in general though.