Independent venues are the heart and soul of live music—where artist careers and music scenes are born.
In this spirit, we’re proud to partner with NIVA to launch and support Live Independent, a groundbreaking new certification program spotlighting independent venues on Bandsintown & beyond.
Becoming Certified Live Independent is a badge of honor that will amplify your venue’s visibility among fans and solidify your credibility within the national independent live entertainment community.
Perks for certified venues include official signage to display on-site and online, an exclusive seal and promotional placements on Bandsintown, and special rates on Bandsintown Pro subscriptions and Promoted Email campaigns.
Learn more and get involved at LiveIndependent.com.
For some events, Bandsintown pulls event info, including artwork, from ticketing partners and third-party data sources and creates events automatically in our database based on that info.
Imported artwork, if available, will be automatically used in Fan Alerts sent from Premium venue subscribers once the event has been published.
Premium subscribers can choose from three different ways to display the Upcoming Shows that appear in Fan Alerts, highlighting either upcoming shows sorted by date only, upcoming shows sorted by top artists, or upcoming shows by similar artists. Shows are always displayed in chronological order.
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Top artists
Similar artists
This setting can be changed from the Fan Alerts section of the General tab of your Settings.
Premium subscribers can opt to have Fan Alerts for an event automatically disabled when that event sells out.
This setting is off by default but can be turned on by toggling Disable Fan Alerts For Sold-Out Events from the Settings > General tab of your venue dashboard.
When the setting is toggled on, you’ll continue to receive email notifications when your events sell out, giving you the option to manually enable or disable Fan Alerts for that show.
Venues now have the ability to preview fan alerts for both emails and push notifications. For Sent Alerts, you'll find details such as the total number of emails and push notifications sent, their open rates, and number of clicks.
To access previously sent Fan Alerts, navigate to the Fan Alerts section of your account settings. Click on either of the two "Preview" buttons next to a published alert to view previews for both push notifications and email alerts.
Spotify’s new partnership with Bandsintown makes concerts listed by venues on Bandsintown automatically discoverable by Spotify’s 602M+ monthly listeners, putting venues in control of their event listings and helping them convert streams to ticket sales.
Events listed on Bandsintown now appear on Spotify artist profiles, in fans’ personalized Live Events feed, and in the Now Playing View.
Paid Pro venues have access to automated email and push alerts sent to fans at every stage of the event lifecycle. Managers can now see previews of the automated Fan Alert emails from the Fan Alerts section of the Bandsintown Pro dashboard.
Learn more about automated fan alerts.
Venues can now easily mute alerts for specific or bulk events, and we'll even tell you the best time to do it. Managers will receive an email when we detect that an event has sold-out so you can manage alerts.*
*Emails will only be received if the manager is opted in to receive Sold-out Event Emails.
See the full picture of your campaign's performance with a weekly report delivered straight to your inbox every Monday morning, including a summary of email alerts with opens and clicks, and event insights including ticket clicks and RSVPs.
Premium subscribers can plug in marketing pixels to stretch your spend further with audience retargeting, additional insights and conversion tracking capabilities to help refine future marketing efforts to the right audience.
This feature was originally compatible only with Google Ads, X, and TikTok. We've recently expanded this feature to allow venues to create audiences in Meta to retarget users to promote their events.
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