Spotify is introducing a brand new function that may let customers comply with venues to get updates and particulars on live shows scheduled to happen there.
Venues you comply with are saved in your library, and you’ll browse them to see occasion calendars, info on scheduled live shows, and bulletins. Customers may filter upcoming reveals at venues by style.
The corporate can also be updating its reside occasion feed each day as an alternative of weekly to supply the newest occasion updates.
As earlier than, customers can faucet on upcoming reveals to e-book tickets by way of the listed ticketing companion. Spotify experimented with promoting tickets itself in 2022, however hasn’t talked about increasing that enterprise since. The corporate presently companions with ticketing platforms like Stay Nation and Ticketmaster as an alternative to promote tickets straight from an artist’s web page.
Earlier this yr, the corporate launched a brand new weekly up to date playlist known as “Concert events Close to You,” which lists 30 songs from artists performing round customers’ areas, together with particulars about their subsequent present.
Spotify’s rivals are additionally concentrating on bettering reside occasion discovery on their platforms. In February, SoundCloud partnered with Ticketmaster and Stay Nation to let artists listing upcoming reveals on their pages.
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