
Music streamer SoundCloud introduced a partnership with Ticketmaster and Universe, owned by Reside Nation, to let artists listing occasions on their profile in a personalized approach.
The corporate stated it could create extra promotion alternatives for artists sooner or later in partnership with Ticketmaster by means of a brand new promotion program however didn’t give any extra particulars.
Artists with SoundCloud’s top-tier Pro plan will be capable to use the self-serve ticketing platform Universe to listing their occasions on their profile pages with out leaving SoundCloud. They’ll be capable to add or modify occasions on their web page relying on what occasions they need to promote.
SoundCloud will pull the artist’s occasion information from completely different ticket platforms, like Ticketmaster and Cube.
After that, artists can select what occasions to show on their web page. Artists may also select to manually add hyperlinks to different ticketing platforms.
The platform stated that it’ll promote these occasions by means of a live performance discovery widget on the SoundCloud residence web page, which can be powered by Ticketmaster information. Customers can kind by means of these occasions by metropolis, time, and style. SoundCloud takes a minimize from any affiliate ticket gross sales made by means of Ticketmaster hyperlinks on its platform.
Earlier than this, the audio streaming service had an integration with the music neighborhood platform Resident Advisor for 3 of the artists’ newest occasions. Nevertheless, there have been no customization options.
Occasion show and ticket promoting have gotten an necessary space of progress for music streaming platforms. In 2022, Spotify started testing direct ticket sales from its app. The corporate can be exploring a $6 monthly subscription for tremendous followers, which can give them early entry to live performance tickets, based on a report from Bloomberg.
The story has been up to date to mirror SoundCloud takes an unspecified minimize from Ticketmaster.