Tag: direct to consumer

Patreon has become a key platform for musicians of all stripes – perhaps to be expected of a company co-founded by a musician: Jack Conte, of band Pomplamoose, and who remains the company’s CEO today. Patreon has emerged...

D2C platform Bandcamp has added a standalone merchandise section for artists to use, in response to what it says is strong and longstanding demand for the feature.

With 10 days still to go in her Kickstarter project, Amanda Palmer has now raised $777,844 at the time of writing to make a new album, art book and go on tour.

With 10 days still to go in her Kickstarter project, Amanda Palmer has now raised $777,844 at the time of writing to make a new album, art book and go on tour.

Remember those stories about artist Amanda Palmer making lots of money from her Twitter fanbase by selling merchandise?

Remember those stories about artist Amanda Palmer making lots of money from her Twitter fanbase by selling merchandise? She's at it again on the D2C front, this time on Kickstarter.

There are numerous examples of artists making decent money from allowing fans to pay what they like for an album by now, and the model has extended into other industries too (like games, with the Humble Bundle initiative).

Whilst mulling the latest Spotify story, this time of Paul McCartney’s streaming services takedown, I got to thinking about just how great a role direct-to-fan (D2F) services could play in broadening the fan experience...

Artists pulled in more than $1m from music and merchandise sales through D2C site Bandcamp in December, the company has announced.

Today the BPI published their 2011 sales report. You can read the summary here, but some key headlines were as follows: CD sales: 86.2m Digital Album Sales: 28.6m Digital Single Sales: 175.1m Vinyl Sales: 337,000 Top 3 Albums...