Trick Spotify into paying bands more with Eternify’s 30-second loops
Want to help your favorite unknown artist make a little extra dough from Spotify? Eternify can lend a hand. The website games the streaming service’s payouts by streaming 30-second clips from the artist of your choosing on an endless loop. Thanks to the band Ohm and Sport, you can boost an artist’s royalties by keeping its catalog going for as long as you can stand it.
“We’re launching Eternify in the wake of numerous false promises of a better future for streaming: not a single one of these announcements or apparent victories have had any meaningful impact on the vast number of small artists on whom these services depend,” the band told The Verge.
For reference, I’m about 25 minutes in on my Steph Stewart & the Boyfriends stream which tallies a full 25 cents, as each 30-second loop earn the artist $.005. Last spring, a band called Vulfpeck released a full album of silent tracks on Spotify and asked its fans to keep it playing at night. The stunt earned the artists quite a bit extra cash before the streaming service pulled the plug. Of course, if you’re willing to leave Eternify running in the background, you’ll want to make sure you do so in a browser with a tab-muting feature.
Filed under: Portable Audio/Video
Via: The Verge
Source: Eternify
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