Congratulations to our friend and former colleague, Andy Baio, who announced today that he’s the new CTO of Kickstarter! For those not already apprised of its awesomeness, Kickstarter gives musicians (and filmmakers, artists, designers and every other kind of creator) a simple way to raise money. You think up a project, set your fundraising goal,Continue reading “Kickstarter”
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Trent Reznor and Another Way of Thinking About Pay-What-You-Want
If there’s an equivalent in the music tech world to the Oprah Book Club Seal of Magnificence, it would have to be an endorsement from Trent Reznor. Woop: “Bandcamp: This looks excellent to me. I have not used it but it appears to be great. This would cover your digital distribution of files and theContinue reading “Trent Reznor and Another Way of Thinking About Pay-What-You-Want”
RSS and the Greatly Exaggerated Rumors of the Album’s Death
The album is dying! And it’s not just the bottomless supply of industry clairvoyants saying so either. Nope, there’s cold, hard evidence, too. Nielsen SoundScan reported that in 2008, sales of individual digital tracks trounced sales of digital albums by a whopping 16 to 1 (1.07 billion to 65 million). That’s actually a slightly narrowerContinue reading “RSS and the Greatly Exaggerated Rumors of the Album’s Death”
Now Accepting the Discover Card
And yes, Visa, MasterCard, and American Express too, PayPal account no longer required. We’ve already noticed a nice jump in the payment success rate (the percentage of fans entering the payment flow who complete it, a number we track obsessively), but optimizations are in the works, so please stay tuned.
Let Me Try Throwing an Exclamation Point on the End. Receipts!
When someone buys something from your Bandcamp site, we now email a receipt to both you and them. Sounds painfully obvious, we know, but it’s something we intentionally avoided up until today because both parties already get a receipt from PayPal, and adding any more mail into the mix struck us as unnecessary noise. AContinue reading “Let Me Try Throwing an Exclamation Point on the End. Receipts!”
Reporting to SoundScan (This Feature Dedicated to the Memory of Snuggles)
Sales on Bandcamp will soon be reported to Nielsen SoundScan, the company behind the Billboard charts. Before we can start submitting weekly stats, however, we need you to please add your UPC codes to your albums, and ISRC codes to your tracks. Just go to each album or track’s page, click Edit, and towards theContinue reading “Reporting to SoundScan (This Feature Dedicated to the Memory of Snuggles)”
Designing on Websites and Their Consultancy and Other Designing Design
is but one of many things you better not try to do in Japan now, at least not under the name “Bandcamp.” Please review the others carefully: P.S. Our U.S. Certificate of Trademark Registration does not feature a…peacock? or bamboo, so we’re not showing it, in accordance with our Terms of Use.
Stickers, WANT
Please help us spread the Bandcamp word! Simply send your name, physical mailing address, and Bandcamp URL to stickerscommawant@bandcamp.com, and we’ll immediately stop what we’re doing, hand copy your address onto an actual envelope, drop in an assortment of ultra-covetable vinyl Bandcamp stickers (with waterproof overlam!), slowwwwly lick both the envelope and the stamp(s) (non-U.S.Continue reading “Stickers, WANT”
Minimum Name-Your-Price Minimum Now Zero
When we implemented name-your-price downloads, we decided to limit the price bands could specify as the let-fan-name-price minimum to no lower than $0.50 USD. That approach made perfect sense to us at the time, since if you went much below fifty cents, all of a fan’s payment would be eaten up by transaction fees. TroubleContinue reading “Minimum Name-Your-Price Minimum Now Zero”
It’s the Give-PayPal-Less-Money Button!
If you sell stuff on Bandcamp, and most of that stuff sells for $12 USD or less, then please do yourself and Lady Justice a favor by signing up for PayPal micropayments. Instead of their standard transaction fees, which work out to about 33 cents for a $1 payment and 45 cents for a $5Continue reading “It’s the Give-PayPal-Less-Money Button!”