- Jul 20, 2020
- 185 Posts
- 241 Thanked
All right thanks guys for those who have submitted their opinion and/or casted their votes. Poll is still active, althogh it looks like we do have a major preference in here.
I've been collecting feedback via several areas and people across the web and it was really really good to see a few main points raised by everyone to support their Bandcamp/Beatport preference. Main points, apparently, rely on:
*UI
*Credits to the artists via royalties split
*Browsing tools offered by the two services
*Music quality downloads
*Promotions/discounts available (Beatport) or offered by the single labels/artists (Bandcamp)
*options to allow users choose amongst several music formats (ex. vinyls) or adding merchandising (Bandcamp seem to satisfy these two preferences)
*exposure (Beatport still seem to be the one to give artists 'more exposure' while Bandcamp relies on the single artist/label effort)
*chance of growth (Bandcamp gives you a tool then you as an artist or label have to do the whole job and, if you are a label, you must pay for a monthly/year fee as well while Beatport requires you to just make use of an eligible distributor to do the job for you, then you don't need to pay any fee to the online store services)
From my label point of view, I will always give the chance to the signed artists to see their music on both starting from this year (subject to label T&Cs, of course).
Even though I totally dislike Spotify in so many ways, that still is a third option available to those who will want to see their music available for streaming-only.
I've been collecting feedback via several areas and people across the web and it was really really good to see a few main points raised by everyone to support their Bandcamp/Beatport preference. Main points, apparently, rely on:
*UI
*Credits to the artists via royalties split
*Browsing tools offered by the two services
*Music quality downloads
*Promotions/discounts available (Beatport) or offered by the single labels/artists (Bandcamp)
*options to allow users choose amongst several music formats (ex. vinyls) or adding merchandising (Bandcamp seem to satisfy these two preferences)
*exposure (Beatport still seem to be the one to give artists 'more exposure' while Bandcamp relies on the single artist/label effort)
*chance of growth (Bandcamp gives you a tool then you as an artist or label have to do the whole job and, if you are a label, you must pay for a monthly/year fee as well while Beatport requires you to just make use of an eligible distributor to do the job for you, then you don't need to pay any fee to the online store services)
From my label point of view, I will always give the chance to the signed artists to see their music on both starting from this year (subject to label T&Cs, of course).
Even though I totally dislike Spotify in so many ways, that still is a third option available to those who will want to see their music available for streaming-only.