Stream the artists you back.
Vinylaunch’s streaming surface is shipping in the platform’s next major phase, integrated with rights attestation, royalty calculation, and creator channel pre-clearance.
Why streaming sits alongside the campaign
On most platforms, streaming and crowdfunding live in separate worlds — artists raise on one site, then point fans at a streaming service that pays fractions of a cent per play and keeps audience data behind a wall.
Vinylaunch puts streaming inside the same platform as the campaign. Fans listen while they back. Artists keep direct fan relationships. Plays and revenue flow through the same ledger as every other revenue stream — same transparency, same artist control, same structural commitments.
The shape of what’s shipping
Track-level rights attestation
Every upload documents sole authorship, co-authorship, cover, or public domain status. Cover song mechanical licensing is facilitated at upload time. Samples and interpolations go through pre-clearance.
Subscriber-only and fan-only access controls
Artists choose per-track access — public, subscriber-only, or fan-only. The streaming player enforces those gates at playback.
Artist-friendly ad serving
15-second ad cap. Maximum one ad per five minutes of listening for free-tier fans. Paying subscribers see no ads anywhere on the platform.
Artist-friendly ad revenue split
50% of advertising revenue when your music plays goes to artists — vs. industry norms of 30–45%. Distributed quarterly via aggregated Stripe Transfer.
No data brokering
Listening data is for artist-facing analytics only. We do not sell listening data, share it with advertisers, or build behavioral profiles.
Streaming requires DMCA agent registration (done), audio transcoding pipeline (in progress), royalty calculation engine (specifying), and PRO/MLC reporting infrastructure (specifying). We will publish a launch window when those dependencies are within reasonable date confidence — no sooner.
Lock in founding rates before streaming launches
Founding subscriber status applies to every revenue stream — crowdfunding, Die-Hard support, future streaming, future creator content. Locked at 5% + $5/mo forever.