Spotify is introducing a brand new characteristic that can let customers observe venues to get updates and particulars on live shows scheduled to happen there.
Venues you observe are saved in your library, and you may browse them to see occasion calendars, info on scheduled live shows, and bulletins. Customers can even filter upcoming exhibits at venues by style.
The corporate can be updating its reside occasion feed every day as an alternative of weekly to supply the newest occasion updates.
As earlier than, customers can faucet on upcoming exhibits to e-book tickets by way of the listed ticketing accomplice. Spotify experimented with promoting tickets itself in 2022, however hasn’t talked about increasing that enterprise since. The corporate at the moment companions with ticketing platforms like Stay Nation and Ticketmaster as an alternative to promote tickets instantly from an artist’s web page.
Earlier this yr, the corporate launched a brand new weekly up to date playlist known as “Live shows 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 enhancing reside occasion discovery on their platforms. In February, SoundCloud partnered with Ticketmaster and Stay Nation to let artists listing upcoming exhibits on their pages.
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