The streaming platform for independent music.

How We Pay Artists

This diagram illustrates an example payout for artists in one month from a single user.

Most other streaming platforms use a pro rata model, paying artists a fraction of a fraction of a penny for a single stream. In some cases, they require a minimum number of streams for the artist to receive any payout at all.

Dream Frog uses a user-centric model. We take a user's subscription fee and proportionally pay the artists they listened to that month with their subscription fee.

Payout diagram showing how revenue flows from listeners to artists