More play & dough for artists (and Beatstars)

Hello - do you all take roadmap input for your product managers?

A couple ideas
1. Looking at my play stats (and even how much I listen to other producers), sometimes it feels like BeatStars is as much of a music listening service as a marketplace for producers.

Could you all launch a subscription listening service that gives people background music to listen to for five bucks a month? Could see it being a huge recurring revenue source for you all (and with a profit split with artists, naturally). Judging by the popularity of XM’s rap beats channel, I think there’s an untapped market of potential listeners at work who want a vibe but not vocals.

2. Could premium add a feature to automatically create a tagged YouTube video for each uploaded beat? (With whatever visual the artist provides?).

With ads, I’ve gotten a decent chunk of hits (200k) but anecdotally talking with other artists they get a lot of inbound from YouTube. Could be interesting to offer a service to artists to automatically upload beats to YouTube when they’re added to BeatStars. I would definitely pay for this - would give more time for music creation

Thanks for your consideration,
Joe | BeatStars.com/AltTabLab