Your fans are yours. So is the money.
Ekho is the direct-to-fan music economy. Artists get permanent ownership of their fan data, and the money moves directly from fan to artist. Fans earn closeness that money alone can't buy.
That's the deal today, at a height 97% of artists never reach.1 The fans who would gladly pay more stay invisible, because no streaming or social platform will say who they are.
So we built the alternative.
Three things, in order. The talk is the fastest way in. The two founding documents say why we're doing this and what we've each agreed to.
The talk.
Start here. The thinking behind Ekho in my own words, plus a walkthrough of what we've built.
The Declaration of Independence.
Why we're leaving. The case against the industry as it stands, with every claim sourced.
Read it →The Constitution of the Ekhosystem.
The terms. What Ekho, the artist, and the fan each promise one another.
Read it →1Streaming payouts of roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per play put one million streams at about $3,000 to $5,000, and fewer than 3 in 100 artists ever reach that number. Full sources are cited in the Declaration of Independence.
The energy fans give out
comes back to them.
That's Ekho.