Audiomack
Platform · this deep dive is built from the official pages of the platform itself and of the tools that support it.
Overview
Audiomack is a streaming service where an artist uploads music without a distributor and without paying for storage. In the footer of its site the platform describes itself as an "on-demand music streaming and audio discovery platform that allows artists and creators to upload unlimited music and podcasts for listeners through mobile apps and the website".
For a creator this is closer to SoundCloud than to Spotify: you own the page, you decide what to post and when, and you do not have to go through an aggregator. In exchange the platform keeps half of the advertising and subscription revenue — the share is stated openly, and it is covered below.
Its strong point is the low entry threshold for monetization. The account requirements are counted in tens of followers rather than thousands, which is unusual for music services.
Who's here
There are no dated audience figures on the platform's public pages. The numbers it does give about itself — app downloads, for example — come without a period and differ from page to page; we will not rely on them.
An indirect but useful indicator of geography is the scale of the monetization program: the platform states that "Supporters is available in all 191 countries where AMP is available". This is a statement about where the program is available, not about the number of listeners.
Another indicator is the thematic structure of the storefront. On the home page of Audiomack the genre list has Afrosounds, Caribbean, Latin, Punjabi and Gospel as separate entries, and among the platform's large accounts are its regional editorial teams (African, Latin American, Mexican). This points to the profile of the service, but it is not audience figures.
The interface language of the home page is English.
Getting started
Registration is free, and there is no separate "artist account" with document checks at the entrance. The platform stresses that the basic set of features for creators is entirely free: unlimited storage, advanced stats, private links, RSS feeds for podcasts.
An important step after registration is authenticating your profile. That is what opens up monetization, and its requirements are given as numbers: at least two uploads, at least 25 followers and at least 1 thousand plays. On top of that you need a profile image, a verified Twitter and/or Instagram account, and to be located in a country where the program is available.
Note the order: first you publish and gather your first metrics the ordinary way, and only then do you apply for authentication. This is not a barrier to entering the platform, it is a barrier to entering the money.
What you can publish
The upload formats are listed outright: Zip, MP3, WAV, AIFF, OGG, FLAC and M4A, with a per-song limit of up to 250 MB. The number of uploads is not capped: the platform describes its storage as "unlimited, for free". Podcasts are accepted, including through an RSS feed.
The agreement sets out its prohibitions as a list. You may not distribute someone else's protected works, impersonate another person or artist, collect other people's personal data, post advertising and offers, publish links to obscene material, or sell or transfer your account without the platform's written permission. One separate item is worth remembering for anyone who has ever thought about "boosting": "artificially inflating play counts or other metrics using bots, pay-per-play services or any other means". A violation is grounds for deleting the content and cutting off access without warning.
The agreement separately prohibits uploading content that is abusive, defamatory, pornographic or obscene, or that promotes or incites violence, terrorism, illegal acts or hatred.
Rights to what you upload: what you give away
The agreement starts with a guarantee: "For clarity: you retain all of your ownership rights in your content".
A separate paragraph is devoted to offline listening, and it is often skipped over: "By accepting these terms and uploading your content, you agree and understand that this material will be available to users of the iOS and Android apps who wish to save your material on their device for offline playback". In other words, uploading to the platform means consenting to a listener downloading the file into the app.
What the agreement does not contain — and this matters: a term for the license, a procedure for ending it when a track is deleted, or an undertaking not to train generative models on your music. None of these points appear in the text we checked.
The law governing the contract is named: the laws of the State of New York, with jurisdiction in the federal and state courts of New York County.
How to grow
The platform does not describe how ranking and recommendations work. Among the built-in growth tools it names advanced stats and private links for creators and a free marketing platform for labels. The home page shows editorial formats — charts, selections, the Audiomack World editorial section and the platform's regional accounts, which have hundreds of thousands and millions of followers.
The agreement separately stipulates that the platform may at any time change, suspend or discontinue any part of the service, including the availability of any feature, without warning and without liability. Planning a long-term promotion strategy around a specific feature is therefore risky.
There are no ways to "lift" your metrics here other than honest work with your audience: artificial plays are directly prohibited by the agreement and are punished with account deletion.
Path to monetization
The platform has two different revenue sources for a creator.
AMP — a share of advertising and subscription revenue
The rate is stated outright: fifty (50%) percent of advertising and subscription revenue. It is calculated not as a fixed per-play price but month by month: the platform's revenue is divided by the total number of plays, and the resulting "revenue per play" is multiplied by your share and by your number of plays. So the rate floats — it depends on which countries the listeners came from and how many monetizable plays there were in total that month.
The entry condition is an authenticated profile with two uploads, 25 followers and 1 thousand plays. The geography is 191 countries.
Supporters — direct support from listeners
A fan buys a token and "supports" a specific release. The creator gets 85% of Supporters revenue after app store and payment processing fees. The fees themselves are named: 2.9% plus US$0.30 for a purchase in the browser, a 30% app store fee for a purchase on iOS, 15% for a purchase on Android. The difference between iOS and the browser is fundamental here — almost a third of the amount.
The platform describes the terms for the listener strictly: tokens are not property and have no monetary value, are not exchangeable for money, goods or services, and are not transferable to other users; all sales are final. The same text includes an honest caveat: the platform may retain part of this revenue for itself and is obliged to share with platform providers, so it does not guarantee that the money a listener spends will reach the very artist they supported.
How the money arrives
Settlement runs on a net-90 basis, that is, three months after the reporting period. Withdrawal is possible at any time after funds arrive in the AMP account, provided the amount exceeds the applicable transaction fees. The timelines: approving a payout takes up to 4 business days, and the payout itself no more than 2–3 business days. The payment intermediary is named: Tipalti, and the set of available payment methods depends on the region and on what that intermediary supports.
Tools and automation
We found no public documentation for a programming interface. There is a link to the address api.audiomack.com in the markup of the home page, but when requested that address responds with a permanent redirect to the site's home page, and a request to the /v1/ path returns the platform's own "404 Page not found" error page. Neither method descriptions nor an access request form were served at that address on the date of our check.
The agreement separately prohibits using any spiders, readers, search applications or other devices to extract or index any part of the service, with the exception of major public search engines. In other words, unofficial data collection is closed off by contract.
What remains of the built-in automation is podcast intake over RSS and the app for creators: the platform calls Creator App a separate product for uploading and managing your catalog from a phone.
Limits and rules
- Files. Zip, MP3, WAV, AIFF, OGG, FLAC, M4A; up to 250 MB per song.
- Storage. Unlimited, free.
- Entry to monetization. 2 uploads, 25 followers, 1 thousand plays, a profile image, a verified social account, an eligible country.
- Shares. 50% of advertising and subscription revenue in AMP; 85% in Supporters after fees.
- Payouts. net-90; up to 4 business days for approval and 2–3 business days for the transfer.
- Age for Supporters. From 18 years, or from 13 years under the supervision of a parent or guardian who has agreed to the terms.
- Metric inflation. A direct ban on bots and pay-per-play services.
- Governing law. The State of New York.
- Changes to the terms. The platform may change the agreement at any time without prior notice, and the changes take effect as soon as they are published.
Who it's for
Suitable for a beginning artist who needs a fast route into monetization: 25 followers and a thousand plays is an incomparably lower threshold than on most platforms that pay out. Suitable for those working with African, Caribbean, Latin and other regional scenes: the platform's storefront is built around these genres.
Suitable for podcasters: RSS is accepted, storage is unlimited, and no fee is charged.
Not suitable if you need a predictable per-play rate: it is recalculated every month and depends on the platform's total revenue. Not suitable if you are not prepared to wait three months for settlement. Not suitable for programmatic integration: there is no public API, and unofficial data collection is prohibited by the agreement. And not suitable for those who care about limiting listeners' ability to download their files: consent to offline saving is built into the upload terms.
Tools for this platform
The list is built from the tools' own facts: every line is a tool's statement that it supports the platform, with the source named. A tool missing from the list only means we have no such statement.
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Verified data
The checked data this deep dive rests on.
About the platform
the platform describes itself as follows: "Audiomack is a youth-driven, artist-first music streaming platform that allows creators to share unlimited music and podcast content for free."
This is the platform's statement about itself, not an independent assessment
source, checked 2026-07-28
API access
the address https://api.audiomack.com was found on the home page by the "api/dev" marker in the address itself, but the page that opened shows no signs of developer documentation - this does not confirm a developer section
CORRECTED the previous version declared any address containing the word api or dev found on the home page to be a developer section. All 57 such records were checked by opening the address: 24 turned out to be documentation. See data/technical/dev-links-verified.tsv and docs/research/S195-догадка-по-адресу.md
source, checked 2026-07-28
Languages
the interface language of the home page: en
The language is taken from the markup attribute, the versions from hreflang
source, checked 2026-07-28
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