Network Sites

As we approach the milestone of sending over 3.75 million updates on behalf of our users, we wanted to make sure we were giving all our amazing partner sites the credit they deserve. There were a few missing on our network page, and today we updated them. The ones we added are Bandzoogle, LiveMusicMachine, Mobbase, MobileRoadie, Scout66, SeeJoeRock, Songkick (descriptions after the break).

We have a lot more sites working on integrating ArtistData and also have a really special announcement in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

We've known these guys for a long time, and we're excited to announce that today our integration with Mobile Roadie went live!

Mobile Roadie, "The simple and inexpensive way for anyone to build and manage their own iPhone and Android Apps" has been making great strides in the mobile space. It's a small team with a focused product, which is the best way to do it. I could go on, but the video below sums it up best:

ArtistData is happy to announce that Bandzoogle has been added to the network! Bandzoogle recently announced some major upgrades to their platform, and allowing artists to update their Bandzoogle websites from ArtistData was one of the new features. Wahoo! We're happy they've embraced our platform and look forward to making it even easier to manage your official site! Welcome Bandzooglers!

To activate this connection, just go to Tools > Profile Sync > Bandzoogle and enter your BZ Site Identifier. Here are instructions on how to find it.

Today, we're happy to welcome LiveMusicMachine and Scout66 to our network. More info on each site is below.

LiveMusicMachine
LiveMusicMachine's booking widget can easily be placed and shared almost anywhere on the Internet including your MySpace profile, Facebook fan page and YouTube videos. Our widget includes a calendar with three distinct, interchangeable views: gig list, interactive tour map, and artist availability calendar and enables fans to check schedules, buy tickets, get directions and, most importantly, book bands directly. Our agent account dashboard allows you to manage multiple artists’ calendars and offers with a single username.

Scout66
Scout66 premiere site for live concert reviews from the most decisive component in the performing arts – the audience. Never before has the relationship between the audience and performer been so important. This is a back to the future concept, a grassroots movement empowering the audience and the performer, prolifically illustrating that indie music is for all ages and all styles of music.

We're excited to announce that we are now syndicating shows to Zvents!

"Zvents is a local search and advertising network with hundreds of web and mobile partners, featuring event listings to promote local business."

One of the coolest thing about Zvents is that they have their own distribution network as well, so when we send them shows, they send them out to a bunch of very cool media partners as well. So by us adding Zvents, it's like us adding the following partners:



Current users should see Zvents added to the site within the next few days!

Today we welcome some more sites to the ArtistData Network!

"ARTISTdirect, Inc. is a digital media entertainment company that is home to an online music network and, through its acquisition of MediaDefender, is a leader in anti-piracy solutions in the Internet piracy protection industry. The ARTISTdirect Network is a network of web-sites offering multi-media content, music news and information, communities organized around shared music interests, music-related specialty commerce and digital music services." (NOTE: Only artists listed with All Music Guide will have content published on ARTISTdirect).

"BlueHaze is your concert community. We love going to concerts. Our friends love going to concerts. But it's not always easy. Sometimes we don't hear about shows until after they've happened. Sometimes it's impossible to get concert tickets. And sometimes, we really want to share our concert photos and reviews with the other fans that were at the show too. So we built BlueHaze to make the live music experience even better by connecting fans and artists to each other around thousands of concert events."

"Findevent is a social networking website where you can post events and invite friends to your events. You can also look for events from around the world - our database of events is updated daily and consists of over 100 000 events."

I'm excited to announce that ArtistData has partnered with FanBridge as they launch their Tour Calendar feature to make it possible for artists using ArtistData and FanBridge to automatically sync shows from their ArtistData account to their FanBridge newsletter! From now, when you enter shows into AD, they will appear in FanBridge within 24 hours!

FanBridge co-founder, Spencer Richardson notes, "We are very excited to be launching this highly demanded Tour Calendar feature, and look forward to working with a great company like ArtistData who is equally dedicated to providing tools that not only save artists time but that also empower artists to generate greater value from their music marketing initiatives."

I agree. This is just the beginning of a great relationship with FanBridge as we continue to help companies ease artists lives by giving them a single point of entry and management.

Enjoy!

We're sorry it took a bit longer than anticipated, but we wanted to make sure PureVolume was finished with some of their core changes before turning the show syncing ability back on. As of this morning, you can now sync shows directly to your PureVolume calendar again! Wahooooooo!

If you had PV sync on before, it will appear to still be connected and all shows added from now on will sync like normal. If haven't had it on before, or turn it off and then back on, we will send over ALL FUTURE SHOWS. This means there might be some duplicates that appear in PV. We'd recommend clearing out your PV show list first if you want to take this route.

We're happy to have them back as part of the network. Let us know if you have any questions!

ArtistData is excited to announce yet another partner that's been added to our growing network. Today, we opened up a connection to a concert database called TourVolume!

Tour Volume is a concert listing service that supplies tools for concertgoers, bands, clubs, promoters and media channels (newspapers, radio stations, magazines and web portals). These tools will help them discover new music, organize tour dates, promote concerts, share concert listings, buy concert tickets and find concert information worldwide. (via TourVolume.com)

It's been a pleasure getting this up and running and we look forward to working with TourVolume even more! All current users will see that they are activated to this service in the next 24 hours, and you'll see your shows start appearing on their site soon!

ArtistData is happy to announce another partner to our supported site network. Today, we will start syndicating data to a music service called BandLoop, focused on live music information.

Bandloop is a community of bands and music fans working together to share the latest concert information. Bands can add tour dates and messages, while fans can track updates from their favorite bands and enter concert and venue information on their behalf.

A note from the good folks over at BandLoop: "No band left behind - the Bandloop dream. We are dedicated to 1 thing and 1 thing only: providing the most local live music listings, period. We track craploads of bands no matter how popular or underground. Select your bands, get alerted when they announce dates, flag the shows of interest... or, contribute concert info to the giant pool of data. Our iPhone app lets you map your way to local shows when you're away from your computer. Bandloop is proud to be part of the ArtistData network!"

We've turned BandLoop sync on for all users in their Publish and Promote settings!