Maximising your revenue

The principle for making money with your music is simple: the more streams you generate on your tracks, the more revenue you generate. Here is how you get paid, then the concrete levers to increase both.

How you get paid

The platform does not pay “per minute” but per validated stream:

• A stream is validated from roughly 30 s of listening. Below that, it earns nothing.
• The platform pays out on average ~$0.003 to $0.005 per stream, depending on the listener’s country and their account type (Premium pays more than Free/ads).
• That money goes through your distributor (Amuse, DistroKid, etc.), which takes its cut and pays you with a delay (often 1–3 months). See Distributing your music — an essential step for streams to pay.
• Only your tracks (the « Mes sons » / “My tracks” page) earn money — warmup belongs to other artists (€0).

Estimate inside Botify

The dashboard estimates your revenue on « Mes sons » streams using a median of $0.00375/stream (range 0.0025–0.005). This is an estimate: your actual revenue depends on your distributor and on the Premium/Free split of your listeners.

The levers

Three levers, to combine according to your goal.

1. Your « Mes sons » catalogue

The « Mes sons » share of the draw (set by the Diversification slider, 15 % by default) is split across your tracks.

• Many tracks → the streams get diluted: each track receives less, but your whole catalogue is in rotation.
• Few tracks (even just 1) → you concentrate the power on what matters.

Keep in mind

Adding tracks does not increase the total number of streams — it spreads it. To push a specific release, keep few « Mes sons » active. To maintain a broad catalogue, add them all.

To earn more, raise the « Mes sons » share in the Diversification section (without overdoing it, so you stay discreet) — the camouflage content itself earns nothing.

2. Volume: more VPS & more proxies

This is the real revenue lever. The more active accounts you have, the more streams you produce:

• Each proxy hosts a few accounts (few accounts per IP, like a household).
• Each VPS runs a number of workers limited by its CPU.

To scale: add proxies (more accounts) and add streaming VPS (more workers in parallel). The accounts you need are created and distributed automatically by your creation machine.

Creation is “free” in terms of sessions

A creation machine uses up no session from your plan. So you can dedicate one to feed as many streaming machines as your plan allows.

3. Community sharing

Streaming machines occasionally pick (~10 %) tracks from other members of the community, and each play is credited to its owner. In return, your tracks are streamed by other people’s workers.

The result: a network effect — the more active the community, the more “external” plays everyone receives on top of their own fleet. It is automatic, with no setting to change.

In practice

1. Start with 1 creation VPS + 1 streaming VPS (20-proxy pack ≈ 60 accounts).
2. Check your profitability with the Simulation in the Scheduler.
3. Once it is profitable, add proxies then streaming VPS — creation follows the demand on its own.