If you streaming using a paid Go+ upgraded account in France then the royalty report is going to reflect a France Sub stream.
If you want to get US ad streams then you would use free accounts that don’t have an upgraded subscription to the premium as there is two different kinds of royalties you can get
1) ad streams ( which these include fan-powered royalties as well, just as long as the account being used is on a free tier)
2) Sub streams ( these are from upgraded premium accounts such as Go+)
You cannot yourself track how many ads the account receives as they don’t provide any of this data. You will only get the report at the end of the following month the streams took place. And in that report you will see how many streams were Sub streams and how many were Ad Streams.
So in this example I provided on one of my artists that I have the report pulled up right now as I am typing this;
I received 390k US Ad Streams and I got a payout of $640. This is what shows on my statement
now when I take a look at my insights for that month the streams took place I did a total of 920k streams for this specific artist.
So out of 920k total streams, only 390k received an ad which counted towards my ad streams.
Which is what reflected towards my royalty payout of it being $640.
Using rotating Mobile Proxy is great, how fast you want it rotating depends on some factors including how long you are streaming on each track, the average length each track is, how many Mobile proxies you are using, how many threads are you using etc. You can rotate as fast as 1 minute or 5 minutes. I would say anywhere between this number should be perfectly fine.
So your numbers do corroborate this link: (+/-)
https://www.blackhatworld.com/seo/u...-streaming-farm-you-need-to-see-this.1503703/
Also wonder have you tried streaming with premium accounts? Do they pay better? As for that link seems like having 50 premium accounts would be piece of cake to generate money, but question is how can you pay for the sub, can you use the same credit card for many different premium users?
-Do you use 1 ip per account? Without getting into providers, i suppose you are using unlimited bandwidth ones correct?
- Just to start how many ips would you use? What would be the minimum to start?
Now i dont understand one thing, why always everyone mentions to rotate the ip?
Does changing the ip have a chance to trigger the ads? Or is it just for adding streams and based on x streams you can trigger the ad function?
Or are the ads based on minutes watched?
- Do you skip songs? Like 45s listen and skip to next? Or high retention streams?(full song "replay")
- Do you replay from your playlist? From search function? From your artist albums?
How many albums should i distribute per artist? The more the better?
Like more songs = more evenly distributed? Like 100 quality songs getting 100 streams each daily = 10.000 streams/day | per month = 280.000 or 300.000 streams which that would equal to give or take 140.000 - 150.000 ad streams just to one artist
Do trial accounts pay anything?
This makes me think that soundcloud is somewhat similar to youtube music ads no?
Do you wait like 2 weeks or 4 weeks like in spotify so it can enter into an algorithmic playlist?(Meaning release dates/uploads in between waiting time)
Last question, so does sounscloud count 1 ip = 1 stream or is it like spotify 1 ip = stream after 30s mark?
Lots of questions im sorry but I am very interested.