Bandcamp

“So, you know, that's become just an incredibly important part of the business. It drives something like 30 plus percent of the sales.”

“We've rolled it out now to it's in, About a 100,000 artists have been enabled with this, and it allows you to stream to anybody.”

“So we were, at this point, we have almost 10,000 independent labels on the site. So Sub Pop, Merge, ATO Ninja Tune, Relapse just Loads and loads of independent labels.”

“It was it was about 15 times our normal Friday sales, which for the systems team, for support, for developers, it was a really big effort to keep the site running and have it keep up with all of that.”

“About half the business is physical records, so vinyl, cassettes, CDs, a lot of t-shirts as well, and then half the business is digital music, so people buying Digital albums and digital tracks directly from the artist.”

“We have another one tomorrow, but we've had 11 since then, and just on those days, fans have paid artists fifty million dollars.”

“You know, on, on Bandcamp Friday, 93% of what a fan spends gets to the artist. On the other days of the year, right, it's 82% on average.”

“You don't, you know, click a like button or a heart to add something to a collection. You have, you transact, right, to create a collection, and that gives the collection so much more meaning, right, because you actually spent a limited resource, right, your m…”

“I mean, it was everything more or less doubled in, in 2020. You know, artist signups, fan signups, sales through the site, digital, physical music.”

“No, they don't. No, I mean, we're really just, I focused on our mission of serving artists. That's what inspires me. That's what I, you know, what I get excited about doing And I would say the company has grown and succeeded more as a side effect of focusing o…”

“And we found again, 2008, 2009. So we, what we were competing with, right, as you said, was like LimeWire. Right. Hook share and stuff like that. So we looked at those search terms and it was the name of an album plus the word torrent or the name of an artist …”

“We hear all the time, mostly through Twitter, that, you know, the money that artists make through Bandcamp is orders of magnitude bigger than what they're making from streaming services that it's how they're, you know, paying rent and getting equipment and buy…”