Where Audiomack Co-Founder Dave Ponte Wants To Take The Streaming Platform Next

It’s been ten years sIt’s been ten years since Dave Ponte co-founded Audiomack alongside Dave Macli. The decade has been strong in international growth for the music streaming platform — Audiomack recently became Nigeria’s number-one overall iOS app in a given week — but if Ponte has it his way, Audiomack will next become THE “home base” for artists, a place to begin their entire musical journey. The platform has rolled out numerous features to support those lofty ambitions, plus has several others in the works.

One of the features that is live is the Supporters monetization tool. Launched in December, the tool allows fans to directly pay artists in exchange for a “badge” that memorializes their name in their profile and that of the supported artists. In the four months of being live on-site, Supporters has created $30,000 in new revenue for artists on Audiomack. As Dave told us in the episode, unlike competing streaming services, Audiomack is concerned with increasing the “size of the pie” for the entire music industry — not merely finding additional ways to ”slice the pie.”

Dave and I spoke at length about artist monetization — and how Web 3.0 possibly fits into the equation — throughout the episode. Here’s everything else we covered:

0:00 Big Start To 2022 For Audiomack
1:29 Evaluating Audiomack’s Supporters’ Monetization Tool Post-Launch
3:59 Updating The Supporters’ Product Over Time
7:09 $30,000 Created For Artists (So Far) With Supporters Tool
11:41 Artist Campaigns On Audiomack
15:15 Audiomack’s Newly-Launched Creator App
18:39 Mobile App “Stickiness”
21:05 Audiomack’s “Home Base” Aspirations
24:51 Artist Resource Guide On Audiomack
28:39 How Brian Zisook’s Twitter Threads Influenced Artist Guide
31:05 Different Dynamic Between Audiomack & Other Platforms
33:42 Audiomack’s Biggest Challenges
39:44 How Does Web 3.0 Factor Into Audiomack’s Future?
47:13 Audiomack Motivated To Bring AfroBeats To America

To listen to more Audiomack Trapital episodes, check out the two below:
Audiomack Co-Founder & CEO Dave Macli: https://youtu.be/1RF5h7v_YQA
Audiomack VP of Product Charlie Kaplan: https://youtu.be/32csLlowy30
ince Dave Ponte co-founded Audiomack alongside Dave Macli. The decade has been strong in international growth for the music streaming platform — Audiomack recently became Nigeria’s number-one overall iOS app in a given week — but if Ponte has it his way, Audiomack will next become THE “home base” for artists, a place to begin their entire musical journey. The platform has rolled out numerous features to support those lofty ambitions, plus has several others in the works.

One of the features that is live is the Supporters monetization tool. Launched in December, the tool allows fans to directly pay artists in exchange for a “badge” that memorializes their name in their profile and that of the supported artists. In the four months of being live on-site, Supporters has created $30,000 in new revenue for artists on Audiomack. As Dave told us in the episode, unlike competing streaming services, Audiomack is concerned with increasing the “size of the pie” for the entire music industry — not merely finding additional ways to ”slice the pie.”

Dave and I spoke at length about artist monetization — and how Web 3.0 possibly fits into the equation — throughout the episode. Here’s everything else we covered:

0:00 Big Start To 2022 For Audiomack
0:55 Evaluating Audiomack’s Supporters’ Monetization Tool Post-Launch
3:38 Updating The Supporters’ Product Over Time
6:47 $30,000 Created For Artists (So Far) With Supporters Tool
10:25 Artist Campaigns On Audiomack
14:28 Audiomack’s Newly-Launched Creator App
17:50 Mobile App “Stickiness”
20:23 Audiomack’s “Home Base” Aspirations
24:05 Artist Resource Guide On Audiomack
27:52 How Brian Zisook’s Twitter Threads Influenced Artist Guide
30:20 Different Dynamic Between Audiomack & Other Platforms
32:55 Audiomack’s Biggest Challenges
38:42 How Does Web 3.0 Factor Into Audiomack’s Future?
46:26 Audiomack Motivated To Bring AfroBeats To America

To listen to more Audiomack Trapital episodes, check out the two below:
Audiomack Co-Founder & CEO Dave Macli: https://youtu.be/1RF5h7v_YQA
Audiomack VP of Product Charlie Kaplan: https://youtu.be/32csLlowy30

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