Week 12B: Music Sites & content streaming

Now days streaming is becoming the dominant source of entertainment. Whether it's streaming your favorite music in your car or streaming videos at home, you're bound to be streaming something throughout your day.

Lets start with music sites. I personally have been using SoundCloud pretty much since its inception years ago. It's a great platform to discover new music or find music you already love. It's also a great place for new artists to upload music in order to get noticed. In fact, there's there's an entire generation of artist dubbed 'SoundCloud artists', due to the fact that they all started their careers from using SoundCloud to project their music out into the world. SoundClouds simplistic design allows anyone to stream their favorite music anytime, anywhere.

Another huge streaming platform that's blown up over the past year or so is Twitch. Twitch is a live stream platform that allows its users to broadcast themselves live to their followers.Twitch primarily got is start from gamers live streaming themselves playing video games. It quickly expanded from that realm and started being used for all different kinds of things. An example would be the automotive lifestyle brand Hoonigan (whom I personally keep up with) which uses twitch to live stream their daily shenanigans and havoc they reap across their warehouse. One of the biggest incentives of Twitch is the ability to monetize your account and make money from your subscriptions. Although I don't know all the specifics, I do know that there's quite a few people out there making good money of of streaming themselves or their business daily.

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