Amazon’s Twitch Teams Up With Concert Service to Let Bands Make Money in Quarantine
Streaming site is working with Bandsintown to help artists cope with live-events blackout
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For the past 13 years, Bandsintown LLC has offered musicians a platform to notify their fans about upcoming concerts. Before the spread of the coronavirus, the company’s app listed more than 430,000 future live events.
But that all changed over the past few weeks, with artists and promoters having to cancel more than 50,000 shows due to the pandemic. And there is no telling when it will be deemed safe again to gather in large numbers.