I’m excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet. Bandcamp will keep operating a…
I'm honestly surprised Bandcamp wasn't acquired sooner. Epic must have thrown a lot of money at the company. I met one of the founders years ago and they were pretty insistent about wanting to stay independent.
The products and services you depend on aren’t going anywhere, we’ll continue to build Bandcamp around our artists-first revenue model (where artists net an average of 82% of every sale)
That's going to change, but good they're not shaking things up immediately.
Smart move from epic. They're quickly growing into another FAANG level company if they weren't already.
I'm honestly surprised Bandcamp wasn't acquired sooner. Epic must have thrown a lot of money at the company. I met one of the founders years ago and they were pretty insistent about wanting to stay independent.
That's going to change, but good they're not shaking things up immediately.
Smart move from epic. They're quickly growing into another FAANG level company if they weren't already.