We at Medallion are building the most powerful direct sales and marketing platform in music. We empower artists to offer their fans premium music products and first access to music, tour presales, merch and more. ↓
THE ARTIST x FAN CONNECTION IS BROKEN — at Medallion we’re building web3 technology to mend this fracture and unlock a new standard of ownership, participation, and creative freedom for the next era of artists. medallion.fm ↓↓↓
bringing together all of our favorite minds in web3 under one roof @SXSW at ✻ HOUSE OF MEDALLION ✻
Friday 3.11 + Saturday 3.12 @EmpireATX with @UnicornDAO_xyz @ourZORA@FWBtweets + more ✨
⇲ Today we are announcing a $9M+ seed funding round led by The Chernin Group with support from additional leading investors across tech, crypto and music.
As we continue to build the best direct-to-fan platform for music artists, we are thrilled to announce our $13.7 million Series A financing, led by @dragonfly_xyz and @lightspeedvp@FactionVC.
How can we empower 𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕡𝕖𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕔𝕖 ✧
Join us tomorrow at 12:30pm EST for a conversation on 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐲 + 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐅𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐨𝐦 with @Ledger’s @iancr and artist / designer Tycho @ISO50x.com/i/spaces/1MYxN…
Since launching the platform 6 months ago, our Medallion artists' natively owned + operated communities have on average:
⇢ 8% more fans than in Facebook Groups
⇢ 38% more fans than on Reddit
⇢ nearly 3x (182%) more fans than in Discord
Our new + improved – and now UK chart eligible – 𝐝𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐮𝐱𝐞 experience launched last week with @jungle4eva's 4th album, VOLCANO, superserving their biggest fans with an immersive digital album format released exclusively to their JFC community 🌋
We launched a brand new product offering with @PalayeRoyale for the inaugural digital edition of their popular graphic novel 𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖘, selling out all 333 editions in hours + creating an immersive collectible experience for fans extending far beyond the page ↓↓↓
Last month we launched our first festival community for DC's largest music festival @AllThingsGo ✺
A powerful case study ↯↯↯
⇢ 10k first week signups (over 25% of ticketholders)
⇢ $50k+ in net new revenue generated
⇢ 1k+ posts to community social layer
Major news – last week we launched a brand new multi-track digital record collection format with none other than our day one Medallion artist Tycho @ISO50tycho.community ↓↓↓
Introducing: Producer Pass – a collaborative community experience bringing fans into the creative process like never before 𖥞
Our first use case: @PalayeRoyale collaborate directly with their community for their new ‘Debilitate’ video ft. @pussyrrriotgo.mdln.com/producergold
⇲ We are a team of music + tech industry veterans who have built pioneering technology for the biggest artists in the world. Now with the rise of web3, we are helping artists redefine fan connections in the new digital frontier.