The dust has settled from the Spotify Wrapped 2022 promotion (and the inevitable memes riffing off it).
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UMAW calls on venues to stop taking cuts of artist merch
#MyMerch sees it team up with the Featured Artists Coalition and artist Cadence Weapon to call on venues and festivals to stop taking a cut.
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Spotify wants to help artists sell more merch on its service
Merchandise has been part of Spotify for a while now, and the company is increasing its efforts to help artists use that feature.
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Amazon Music for Artists adds two more merchandise features
Amazon Music has been making a significant push recently around merchandise, encouraging artists to explore the ways they can sell merch.
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Softside wants to help more artists sell fan-designed merch
It’s a relatively recent trend for artists and music companies to actively encourage fans creating their own merchandise – and build commercial models around it.
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The Big Moon sell merch in a pub to avoid venue’s 25% cut
There has been growing unrest from musicians in the UK over the cut taken by venues of the merchandise sales at their concerts.
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Spotify and MerchFriends launch ‘Band Shirt Day’ this month
It’s due to take place on 16 September, and revolves around exclusive merch (or discounts on existing products) and donations to charities
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D’Amelio Brands raises $6m from investors including Eddy Cue
We are family! I got all my sisters, my mother, my father and my hugely lucrative new lines of merch and skincare products with me!
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Amazon Music Reveals New In-App Merch Shop
It’s perhaps inevitable that the DSP spun out of a global shopping behemoth would introduce a more fleshed out merch shopping experience.
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Hundreds more UK venues agree to take 0% on merch sales
Back in January, the FAC launched a directory that listed venues that do not charge any commission at all on merch sales at gigs.
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Shopify lays off 10% of its staff ahead of Q2 financials
The reasons why are interesting for anyone who’s thinking about e-commerce for music artists.
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Spotify expands its ‘Blend’ feature with merch sales
Spotify’s ‘Blend’ started as a feature to automatically create shared playlists with certain friends, before expanding to include famous artists as the blendees.