Bandcamp announced on Wednesday that it has been acquired by Epic Games, the company best known as the makers of Fortnite, for an undisclosed sum. While Fortnite may be Epic’s most well-known property, the company has long been a titan of the gaming and software industry thanks to their Unreal Engine, one of the most popular […]
In response to the pandemic earlier this year, Bandcamp waived its own revenue share on the first Friday of every month since March giving artists all proceeds from their sales. Today, the site revealed that artists earned $40 million from those dates and pledged to continue Bandcamp Fridays in 2021. The dates will be Feb. […]
Bandcamp’s First Friday fundraisers — where all sales have gone directly to the artists — will continue through the end of 2020. In a statement on the company’s website, CEO Ethan Diamond outlined the decision to keep the program going. “We started Bandcamp Fridays back in March to support artists impacted by the pandemic, and […]
Bandcamp is going to be waiving its revenue share once again today (June 5). And while the campaign was initially meant to help artists through their financial hardship during the global pandemic, many labels have committed to donating the proceeds from their sales to Black Lives Matter initiatives, anti-racism organizations and local bail funds. Bandcamp […]
Bandcamp announced that it will be donating 100% of its sales on Juneteenth to the NAACP. In the announcement by Bandcamp CEO Ethan Diamond, the company said it will honor the date by repeating this practice every year. Juneteenth, which is June 19, is recognized as the date of the emancipation of the last remaining enslaved […]