Bandsintown

Bandsintown is a music website that allows users to receive notifications about tours and bands playing in the user's area. It also has tools for artists to manage tour dates.^[1]

Bandsintown

Company type	Private
Industry	Live music
Founded	2007; 18 years ago (2007)
Founders	Todd Cronin Phil Sergi
Headquarters	New York City, New York, U.S.
Number of locations	6 offices (2017)
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Fabrice Sergent (Managing Partner) Julien Mitelberg (Managing Partner)
Brands	Bandsintown Group Bandsintown Concerts Bandsintown for Artists Bandsintown Amplified Bandsintown Promoter
Number of employees	80
Website	bandsintown.com

Bandsintown was included in Business Insider’s 2014 list of world's greatest apps.^[2]

History

Bandsintown was founded in 2006 by Todd Cronin and Phil Sergi^[3] and officially launched in 2007 as a concert discovery service. In 2011, it was acquired by a mobile and social application publisher, Cellfish, which is known today as Bandsintown Group.^[4][5]

Brands

Bandsintown Concerts is a concert discovery app. It pulls data from a user's iTunes library, Facebook Likes, Spotify, Rdio, Google Play and Twitter accounts to pre-populate a customized list of tracked artists and local concert recommendations. Tour dates are collected from more than 200 primary ticket providers and booking agencies, as well as the artists directly.^[6]

Bandsintown Manager is a collection of concert marketing applications for performers that allows them to list tour dates, promote events and facilitate direct contact with their fans.^[7][8]

Bandsintown Promoter offers promoters, venues and labels marketing data and direct access to concert-goers based on their music taste and location. The platform identifies the number of “Trackers,” or Bandsintown users following a specific artist in certain geographic locations, that can be contacted via Bandsintown's email marketing program.^[9]

Bandsintown Amplified is a multi-screen advertising platform that connects brands with fans and artists through a network of music publishers.^[10]

References

1. Hypebot (31 March 2011). "Bandsintown Debuts Facebook Tour Date App". Retrieved March 31, 2011.
2. The App 100: The World's Greatest Apps Business Insider.
3. Lynch, Brendan (July 25, 2010). "Boston band-event site finds groove in California". Boston Herald. Retrieved July 25, 2010.
4. "Cellfish Acquires Bandsintown, the Leading Live Concert Tracking and Discovery Application on Facebook". prnewswire.com. September 15, 2011. Retrieved September 15, 2011.
5. Peoples, Glenn (September 3, 2014). "Cellfish Media Rebrands as Bandsintown Group". Billboard. Retrieved September 3, 2014.
6. Goetz, Rick (September 26, 2012). "How to Promote Shows through Social Media". MusicianCoaching.com. Archived from the original on July 5, 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
7. Smith, Clyde (July 1, 2014). "Bandsintown's New Manager App Adds Artist Marketing Tools For The Road". Hypebot. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
8. "Bandsintown Debuts Facebook Tour Date App". 31 March 2011. Retrieved March 31, 2011.
9. Hypebot (20 February 2014). "Bandsintown For Promoters Launches Featuring Targeted Marketing Opportunities". Retrieved February 20, 2014.
10. "Bandsintown, Inc". Archived from the original on 2015-03-08. Retrieved 2015-03-03.

External links

• Official website