Lachlan I.

Low value for artists with needing to pay to even monetise your music and with a max upload time of 180 minutes before paying, terribly low royalty rates per view, infested with bots/promo ad accounts, site works great for listeners on the functional end though. So it might not be worth using as an artist, I still use it but I only just about break even with over 500 monetised views a day on a channel. Best bet in my view is to mainly focus on distribution through DistroKid or something and YouTube manual uploading for more value. Yes I understand it's their website and they can chose to do what they want, but there has been a lot of bad decisions of late.