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Bandfunding at a Glance

Bandfunding is a new approach to career support for musicians. Designed for the artist, it combines a method of raising on-going financial support (through the collective effort of friends, family, and fans) with a dynamic platform to promote and distribute the musician’s music, videos and branded merchandise.

Aggregating the collective efforts of a large pool of fans—primarily online via social media and bandfunding platforms—Bandfunding leverages their networks for greater reach, monetization and exposure.

Bandfunding begins where crowdfunding ends. The duration of existing crowdfunding campaigns typically run for about 30 to 45 days after which, the artist either receives their funds or fails and receives nothing, because traditional crowdfunding sites are design to fund projects with a one-time payout.

How is Bandfunding Different from Crowdfunding?

Bandfunding encourages artists to promote their careers by sustaining their campaigns indefinitely through monthly fan-based subscriptions. It also provides the tools to establish a career building promotional platform that integrates the artist’s music, profile and collateral materials with social media networks such as MySpace, Sound Cloud and Facebook.

Bandfunding empowers musicians to take command of their careers, own and distribute their music and be free from the corporate control of the music industry.

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