as well as the album, our band and our discography. With a database many independent retailers find indispensable, Discog’s now claims 3 million users (although not all are active) and nearly 15,000 new users per week. The site gets some nearly 400,000 orders a month which would put it on pace for 4.8 million orders for 2016. Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear & Black Ice W/Grey 2LP. Its business model is similar to eBay or Amazon with the site taking 8 percent of sales which would mean $8 million in revenues last year. Today Discogs has a staff of 50 and offices in Beaverton, Ore. and Amsterdam and expects its 2016 revenue to break the $100 million sales threshold. The site slowly became a user-generated, wiki-like database. The platform experimented with ad revenue, paid subscription and membership models before 2007 when the site added a marketplace feature where users could buy and sell vinyl and and which led to something of a windfall. The Juan Maclean to Play Discogs' Debut Crate Diggers Event in L.A.: Exclusiveĭiscogs was founded by then-Intel programmer Kevin Lewandowski in 2000, who started it as a hobby to catalog his collection of electronic albums for which he cross-linked artists, releases and labels on a Pentium II server in his closet.
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