They seem to have a huge problem at SC and it’s not clear to me that they have any reason to try to stop it. I have been reporting this behavior for years and from my perspective it hasn’t gotten any better.
I have no evidence for this but it feels like Soundcloud is on life support and they have zero or near-zero developers working on it.
I mean with email, spambots are always a net negative because the services that pass e-mails through do not get paid for them. But Twitter does. If you get a bot tweet on your feed, or a bot-promoted one, you engage with it and Twitter gets paid (in 'engagement', the magical currency).
eBay has a "compromised account monetization" bot that has used the exact same distinctive fraudulent listings weekly for years and they still use a manual process to deal with it.
Soundcloud really looked like they were growing faster than their ability to handle it. Thinking it may actually be the smarter play.
On a related note, their business models are completely different. Bandcamp is bootstrapped and profitable, while SoundCloud is dependent on investment money and almost went bankrupt a few years ago.
Well, if you have to say it...
Was going through both of them again, and curation-wise, they're both landfills. At least on bandcamp I can search for genre/city, but for say, electronic music, you have to sift through stuff that is literally disgusting to find the gems. It's when they mix things that aren't meant to be mixed, they create that kind of dread. Good for bandcamp being profitable though, that's very good news. I'm probably just not their target market.
Soundcloud is a radio and Bandcamp is a CD shop, if you like a retro metaphor. One is Instagram, the other is Shopify. Apples and oranges. Find new fans through Soundcloud and Spotify, sell your work through Bandcamp.
Source: https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/soundcloud-revenues-s....
Well they have been teetering on the brink of collapse for a long time, so no, I wouldn't expect them to have tons of resources. I'm surprised they're still around to be honest.