SoundCloud Looking For Sale by owners of the company is the News. SoundCloud, the one platform which is a lifeline of upcoming and indie artist to promote content is in news now. The owners of SoundCloud.Com are thinking about sale of SoundCloud Ltd. SoundCloud Ltd., a German Company can be valued currently at 1 Billion $ and they are currently looking for ways to push the growth as well as income from the current customer/user base, are the view of people who are familiar with it. Founders & Investors, which also includes investors like Doughty Hanson & Company, are working on searching choices for SoundCloud which can lead to selling of the company. (This is as per the information shared on the story on SoundCloud Looking for Sale by owners and investors by Bloomberg.Com, people who shared this information asked not to be identified). The possible sale is on the mind of the owners of SoundCloud since some time now. It is an primary stage of time and SoundCloud team might even choose not going for the sale too. SoundCloud Looking For Sale is for sure a shock for lot of followers, users, subscribers, music artists, music business and so on…

The holders of SoundCloud Ltd. have problem getting a buyer who would be ready to value SoundCloud by $1 billion. The company has elevated $ 70 million from Twitter in June, portion of $ 100 million finance which has valued at $700 million, as per the information.

Now they are focusing to create dependable income from around 175 million users, who use SoundCloud.Com. They have now presented an additional facility by March, by which a user can access streaming content without advertisements as well as given more access to content. It is the first ever intense alteration to their business model. Sound Cloud has created their own unique position hosting music content put up by Artists from an amateur to top line artists.

The sales of Sound Cloud in 2014 has excelled to 54% which is an increase of $ 19 Million from the previous year. The Company in 2014 also had an operating loss 39 Million Euros increasing from 21.3 Million Euros since 2013. The Story of SoundCloud Looking For Sale is as per the our source Bloomberg.Com & Forbes.Com

How SoundCloud Looking for Sale can hurt to upcoming and indie artist the deal goes through at their focused valuation?

If the deal goes through at this valuation and to cover the investment which is made the next owner will do the best they can to either change the way it operates where the focus is user generated content and not on high quality content which is available on Apple or any other such platform. The Focus of SoundCloud is always User Generated Content which makes it the big idea which came in 2007 as revolution and created opportunities to upcoming talent as well as indie artist. As the Sound Cloud came in existence, it came up like fresh air for lot of artist who were not able to release their content and music but soundcloud was the big idea and opportunity.

This will be surprising for lot of people that SoundCloud may have 175 million people using it per month. What it upsets is their chances for spinning profit is fact that soundcloud was pushed to sign costly licensing contracts with key networks to avoid unresolved copyright matters, and to remove the hurdles to offer a subscription level to push lastly to escalation revenue. It may sound simple here, but the biggest differentiating feature of SoundCloud is its indie artists, and till now it has been for free, so imagine now how difficult it will be when it works at a monthly fee. As SoundCloud is changing gears to make it profitable it sounds like it’s in the end an amazing platform is turning itself away from the indie artists for whom it has been a blessing to promote their music.

So if they find a buyer at the valuation they are pricing at $ 1 Billion, chances are for sure that the new owner of SoundCloud would use it position and infrastructure to focus on more profitable area or attempt to limit the current indie & User Generated Content friendly USP of SoundCloud to focus on more typical mainstream user interest content to grow more subscriber base. In any ways its going to hurt Indie Music Artists across the globe, if the offering of SoundCloud will transformed significantly to the extent that it no longer will set in the needs of Indie Artist.

That makes only YouTube an option as the ongoing royalty issues will make us take that as the only alternate resort, but that will also have a limitation because of need of video when you put up content.

SoundCloud feels one of those brilliant ideas of those time and today but, as many such amazing ideas, its just proving to have find difficulties of time lasting in the world of money, legality and copyright battles. Even though expert Bobby Owsinski shares the time is tough & time is closer for SoundCloud. We hope the people who brought this fresh air and brilliant article to the world will do something to turn the table and change the winds for the most loved app and website for Indie Artist. We wish that soundcloud grows more stronger and continues to be the backbone of Indie Music Artist.