Welcome Bandzoogle! 2 Feb 2010, 2:30 am

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.

ArtistData Overview Video for Music Organizations 21 Jan 2010, 3:00 pm

The other day we relaunched ArtistData, along with a set of screencasts to help everyone understand how to use the new site. One area that we didn't cover well enough is music organizations. Today, we put this video together that gives a general overview of music organization accounts. It's embedded below, as well as available on our screencast page.



We have gotten a lot of requests for discounts for music organizations. We're going to design a solution for that and release it later this year. Thanks so much for all the feedback!

LiveMusicMachine and Scout66 join the ArtistData Network! 20 Jan 2010, 12:00 pm

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.

The New ArtistData 16 Jan 2010, 6:30 am

Today we released the single largest revision to the ArtistData platform. For the past few months we've been reworking and improving the user interface to develop a framework that will allow us to drastically expand our site's capabilities. We are thrilled to share it with everyone today.

Our old user interface was suitable when we initially launched in 2008, but we quickly outgrew it. Today's release is an interface that has a stronger foundation to support future growth, and we believe it is an easier site to use based on your valuable, ongoing feedback. 

So, what's new at ArtistData.com?

Our holiday gift to you: Facebook Event Sync 24 Dec 2009, 10:00 am

That's right. We've finally done it. Starting today you can use ArtistData to post events directly to Facebook Fan Pages!!! We wanted to roll this out for the holidays, but remember it's still in beta and you might encounter some bugs. And stay tuned .. in early 2010, we'll be releasing some big changes to ArtistData. We can't wait for you to see what we've been working on. We wish you a happy, safe holiday season. And as always, thank you for your support.

ArtistData welcomes two additions to the team! 24 Dec 2009, 9:30 am

The ArtistData Team has Grown! We're thrilled to announce that ArtistData has recently brought on two amazing additions to the team. Brandon Passley has joined as a senior engineer and Matt Williams has joined as a senior user experience designer. They are both in Chicago and are currently heavily involved in the entrepreneurial technology scene here. They'll help to build a faster, better, prettier, and more usable ArtistData.

From Brandon ... Twitter: @brandonpassley I am a software engineer, user interface designer and all around web guru based in Chicago. I drink too much coffee, spend too much time in front of a monitor and have enough technology to control a small country. ArtistData has become the essential tool for artists and I am excited to help make it faster, better and prettier.

From Matt ... Twitter: @nomoregoodnames I specialize in front-end design and user experience. In my freelance life, I've worked on a number of projects for various bands/ artists including Ari Hest, William Fitzsimmons, Secondhand Serenade, and Josh Kelley. I'm passionate about taking ArtistData to the next level. I look forward to engaging myself with the users to provide a better experience for all artists.

ArtistData wins a Chicago Innovation Award! 28 Oct 2009, 1:00 pm

Before leaving for CMJ last week, I was invited to the Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony. As most of you know, ArtistData was a finalist for the innovation awards, so I was happy to be invited to the ceremony. By the end of the night, ArtistData had been awarded a Chicago Innovations People's Choice Award!

This is a huge accomplishment for one reason: the award is about you guys, our users. It was your amazing feedback and support that won ArtistData this award. It is your constant feedback and ideas that help ArtistData continue to innovate and bring great products to market. It is YOU that inspires us to keep working, keep pushing, and keep making musicians' lives easier and careers more manageable.

This award isn't for ArtistData. It's for the incredible community of music creators and supporters who use ArtistData. So thank you for and congratulations on being a part of this great accomplishment! As I've said many times before, you guys rock. Let's go do a lot more!

Also, sorry for the silence and inactivity lately. There's a lot going on behind the scenes and I'm excited to release some info about it all soon!

I've copied everyone's feedback to the rest of this post, so click through!

Zvents now a part of the ArtistData Network! 5 Oct 2009, 3:30 pm

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!

ARTISTdirect, BlueHaze, and Findevent added! 22 Sep 2009, 12:00 pm

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."

Interview with ArtistData founder Brenden Mulligan 11 Sep 2009, 12:30 pm

I had the pleasure of sitting down with Tim Jahn last week and talking about ArtistData. Tim has been doing a series of interviews with Chicago-based companies called Beyond the Pedway and wanted to add ArtistData to the mix. We chatted for about 45 minutes, but so you're not bored, he only included about 6 minutes.

We chat about starting a company, how artists and startups are alike, and some things I've learned along the way. It was fun, and while I absolutely hate watching myself on video, it turned out well. Video is embedded below. Thanks Tim!



And yes, I realize the internet was created for more things than automation. That's editing for you... Haha