Epic Games is selling Bandcamp and Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce - eviltoast
Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce
kotaku.com
The company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine is also reported to be selling off Bandcamp

Most of the article is unrelated to music but Bandcamp being sold to Songtradr is big news

  • pipariturbiini@sopuli.xyz
    7·
    1 year ago

    This is weird. Literally yesterday I was wondering when Epic would kill Bandcamp by making it streaming-only or some shit.

    • misk@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      1 year ago

      They are likely making considerable amount of money on taking a cut of merch sales like physical records and apparel. If not then it’s still fairly hassle-free. Layoffs at marketing could mean that they don’t see much room for growth and that’s what business is about these days.