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More than a week after suspending all crowdfunding campaigns, PledgeMusic remains silent about what's going on. PledgeMusic has been promising since the summer of 2018 that it would make back payments to art... Read More...
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Just how soon should we expect PledgeMusic to utterly give up and throw in the towel? PledgeMusic has gone from pretty bad to even worse. First blaming a ‘transition in payment platforms,’ the embattled B... Read More...
Losing Faith in PledgeMusic, the British Musicians' Union Urges Artists to Use Another Platform

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PledgeMusic executives have yet to convince the British Musicians’ Union it can turn things around and get artists paid. Frankly speaking, PledgeMusic isn’t in a very good place right now. Industry analys... Read More...

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PledgeMusic has been giving artists the run around for months about payments. Now co-founder Benji Rogers is returning to help straighten out the mess. Rogers announced yesterday that he is returning to the ... Read More...

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PledgeMusic says it will be caught up on missed payments to artists within 90 days — or at least, that's the 'expectation'. After another wave of complaints related to non-payments, PledgeMusic is now respon... Read More...
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Instead of actually solving the problem, Patreon’s “fixes” seem to have further exasperated content creators and patrons. Jack Conte understands content creators on YouTube. As a musician on the popular v... Read More...
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