Bandcamp seems to be one of the rare tech platforms not trying to rip-off musicians during the pandemic. Already, the popular musician platform has waved its fees for one week per month, allowing musicians to keep all of the profits from their music sales. Now, Tech Crunch reports, that they are offering a one-stop shop for ticketed live streaming services that includes merch and chat features that 100% empower musicians.

The generous tech hub for musicians stated: “Today we’re announcing Bandcamp Live, a new ticketed live streaming service that makes it easy for artists to perform for and connect with their fans, and for fans to directly support the artists they love.”

Tech Crunch writes: “The service is pretty well positioned to offer the feature. For one thing, it’s got goodwill going for it. For another, integration with existing services means fans get notified when a show is coming up. And all their goods are offered up for sale during the shows as a kind of virtual merch table where they can buy swag while still watching the performance.”

So what’s the difference between the Bandcamp stream versus Facebook Live? As aforementioned, it’s a one-stop-shop – artists directly collect money on their merch, can chat with the audience, and earn record sales as they stream their performance. It’s already fully integrated with Bandcamp so the funds go straight to your already established account.

As always, the pricing with Bandcamp is completely transparent.  “We don’t pretend our ticketing service is free and then surprise your fans with a ‘convenience fee’ when they check out. You set your ticket price to whatever you want, and that’s what your fans are charged. Our fee is 10%, and we’re waiving it entirely until March 31st, 2021.”

This transparency varies from other new platforms that have popped up during pandemic that get superfluous fees from artists’ fans.

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