{"id":7998,"date":"2017-01-05T09:48:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/?p=7998"},"modified":"2017-01-05T04:02:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T12:02:42","slug":"will-there-be-a-google-soundcloud-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/will-there-be-a-google-soundcloud-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Will There Be A Google-SoundCloud Marriage?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7999\" style=\"width: 595px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7999\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-05-at-6.47.57-AM.png\" alt=\"Photo: Music Business Worldwide\" width=\"595\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-05-at-6.47.57-AM.png 640w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-05-at-6.47.57-AM-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-05-at-6.47.57-AM-530x293.png 530w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Music Business Worldwide<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SoundCloud may have over 170 million users logging in, but it&#8217;s never been able to transform itself to a lucrative money-making venture. As is often the case with tech companies, profits really come into play when a company is sold for a huge amount of money to another company that&#8217;s better able to manage growth.<\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/spotify-and-soundcloud-merger-no-longer-a-sure-thing\/\">Spotify walked away from the table<\/a>, it looked like SoundCloud was doomed.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it looks like SoundCloud might be bought out by Google. Two important bits of information to keep in mind here. First, we&#8217;ve heard this kind of talk before. This may just be a rumor. Second, while SoundCloud was asking Spotify for $1 billion, it&#8217;s reportedly asking Google for $500 million. That lower price might just be the ticket to an actual buyout. In any case, we&#8217;ll just have to wait to see what happens next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">SoundCloud may have over 170 million users logging in, but it&#8217;s never been able to transform itself to a lucrative money-making venture. As is often the case with tech companies,&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[400,2203],"tags":[4672,4670,622,4671],"views":1200,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8000,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7998\/revisions\/8000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mp3poolonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}