Reside music discovery platform Bandsintown has develop into the unique supplier of live performance listings on YouTube and YouTube Music.
Bandsintown confirmed earlier immediately (August 21) that YouTube customers can now uncover its live performance listings whereas watching artist movies and Shorts and exploring Official Artist Channels.
Bandsintown’s platform will quickly be accessible for music followers “whereas searching the YouTube homepage“, added the live shows firm. And the mixing will broaden to YouTube Music later this yr, with Bandsintown’s dwell occasions showing on YouTube Music residence and artist pages.
As well as, the partnership with YouTube features a new push notification function for Bandsintown, alerting customers to close by live shows and upcoming exhibits.
The combination permits tour listings revealed by artists on Bandsintown for Artists – at no cost – to robotically show on YouTube.
Venues, festivals, and promoters subscribed to Bandsintown Professional can even profit from having their occasions seamlessly distributed on YouTube.
Fabrice Sergent, Bandsintown co-founder and Managing Accomplice, mentioned: “At a time when musicians proceed to wrestle to generate revenue, this unique integration with YouTube additional demonstrates Bandsintown’s ethos to create worth and equal alternative for artists worldwide, of all sizes and genres, to get found on digital platforms and promote extra tickets.”
“At a time when musicians proceed to wrestle to generate revenue, this unique integration with YouTube additional demonstrates Bandsintown’s ethos to create worth and equal alternative for artists worldwide, of all sizes and genres, to get found on digital platforms and promote extra tickets.”
Fabrice Sergent, Bandsintown
The primary featured artist for the YouTube partnership is Sabrina Carpenter, who’s recent off a profitable headlining efficiency at Lollapalooza.
Carpenter makes use of Bandsintown’s instruments to showcase her tour dates on her personal web site, and the corporate says the YouTube integration will now imply her tour dates achieve extra “important visibility”.
This YouTube partnership marks the most recent enlargement of Bandsintown’s international distribution community throughout main digital platforms.
US-headquartered Bandsintown says that, over the previous 18 months, it has develop into the “most popular dwell music knowledge supplier” for firms/platforms resembling Google, Spotify, Apple, and Shazam.
Spotify built-in Bandsintown onto its platform in Q1 final yr, which coincided with the tip of the music streaming platform’s 13-year partnership with Warner Music Group-owned live performance discovery platform, Songkick.
Drawing live performance knowledge from 700,000+ registered artists and 65,000 venues and promoters, Bandsintown publishes particulars of an estimated 2.3 million occasions yearly.Music Enterprise Worldwide
