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👕 Fan products 👥 Product team 🛒 To sell products
to merch

to merch

8.9
To show and sell products to people, often at concerts
  • verb
  • /mɜːrtʃ/
  • Jargon
translation icon : vender merchandising
  • The band plans to merch their new album with exclusive merchandise at the concert.

Examples

  • Online retailers often merch their products with attractive displays to draw in customers.

  • And then selling merch, that's selling merch is like one of the big things.

  • Ronny, get your lawyers because we're making merch and it's coming out soon.

  • But I think that we're being pretty straightforward with like, OK, yeah, we sell merch, go to the store and buy it if you want to.

  • And I actually wanna promote CEOs merch by doing like a little sequence.

  • Well, I went with a client of mine and the intention was we were going to try to do some work, you know, sell merch on their tour.

  • But the prospect and the potential of making merch and sending it to all of these listeners just was so daunting.

  • You keep saying, bro, that's going to be the Instagram, the YouTube, every branding we're going to release merch with this logo on.

  • Many artists merch their music and related products online to reach their fans.

Compounds

a ton of merch
  • Informal
6.9

A large amount of items with a brand, like shirts or posters

How Promoted

to market
172 2.8
to merch
  • Jargon
8.9
to promote
252 3.5

Surface Forms

merch infinitive
merched past
merched past participle
merching present participle
merches third person singular

Etymology

Merch as a verb comes from the noun merchandise and from the idea of a merchant who sells goods, so to merch something is to promote or sell products, often to fans.