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Ampled

posted August 29, 2021 #

Ampled is, as I understand it, a service for musicians to offer subscriptions to fans with a focus on transparency for how the service itself actually works. They've adopted a co-op structure where the Artists and workers of the service "own 100% of Ampled - not venture capitalists."

Honestly, it looks a whole lot like Patreon in terms of the functionality that it provides. A musician signs up and posts regular exclusive content to garner subscriptions from fans. The difference here being that Ampled does not offer tiers and the artist account determines what percentage share goes back to Ampled; so you aren't forced into a particular rev share.

Looking at the artists pages, they seem well put together and, when the artist is using the service properly, seem like a good deal for fans.

I've always want to pursue something like this for a yk Records artist but never really had one that had enough content to make a subscription even possible. I'm curious to hear if anyone has used this as an artist or subscriber and had any thoughts.