Impartial music distribution service DistroKid introduced its current acquisition of Bandzoogle, the web site builder designed for musicians. The monetary particulars of the transaction weren’t publicly disclosed.
The acquisition is a brilliant transfer for the corporate since DistroKid customers can now energy digital, bodily and on-demand gross sales “throughout the DistroKid ecosystem,” the corporate famous in its announcement. Nevertheless, be aware that non-DistroKid customers can nonetheless use Bandzoogle.
Many unbiased artists on DistroKid will seemingly profit from having Bandzoogle’s instruments at their disposal. Bandzoogle, based by musician Chris Vinson in 2003, affords a set of e-commerce options to assist artists promote their music, merchandise and live performance tickets commission-free on to followers. Different income alternatives embrace fan subscriptions, mailing lists, crowdfunding and digital suggestions.
Since its inception, Bandzoogle customers have bought greater than $100 million in music, merch and tickets. The platform at present powers over 60,000 web sites.
DistroKid is utilized by over two million artists and distributes about 30-40% of all new music on the earth. The corporate not too long ago launched its first iPhone app, permitting customers to add new music, examine earnings, edit lyrics or credit for earlier releases, see streaming stats and extra.
DistroKid was based in 2013 by Philip “Pud” Kaplan, a well known entrepreneur who has based a number of corporations, together with the Fucked Company web site, which sadly shut down in 2007.
