PSA: Bandcamp Friday is back
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#62YT8)
Time to buy some jams. | Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images Bandcamp is bringing back its Bandcamp Fridays promotion where it waives its cut of any money you spend buying music from artists or their labels on its marketplace. Historically, the company ran the promotion on the first Friday of every month, and that appears to be the case this time around, too. According to its update page, it has Bandcamp Fridays scheduled for September 2nd, October 7th, November 4th, and December 2nd.
Bandcamp says that when you buy music during a Bandcamp Friday, 93 percent of that money goes to the artist or label on average (with the rest going to payment processing fees). That's compared to an average of 82 percent the rest of the time. It started the promotion in 2020 in response to the pandemic's impact on...