Announce & Publish an Event

Utilize the announce feature to effectively handle important dates for your event, link external tickets, and effortlessly showcase and promote your event on your website or widget.

Table of Contents:

• Add Event Billing Information and Schedule Announce
• Add and Edit Event Image
• Add Description and Embed Links
• Saving your Changes

Announcing a show

Navigate to the Calendar tab in the upper navigation and select your event.

To set up your announcement details, click on the bullhorn icon in your event.

From this section you can edit the:

• Event Name
• Subtitle (add more context to your event title)
• Promoter Name
• Announce Date
  
  • When you haven't yet set a date for your announcement, the status will be shown as "Unscheduled".
  • Once you have set a date for your announcement, the status will change to "Scheduled".
  • When the announce date arrives, the status will change to "Live" and your event will be published on your widget.
• Add Artists and Support Acts
  • Note: Artists added in the announce modal do not populate to Bandsintown and Spotify; this can only be done with the Artist Modal
• Artist Social Media Links

Add an event image to pull up our brand new photo editor feature

Once you have finished editing your photo, make sure to set the cover image for your event. Your cover image will be given a star once you save your updates. The widget will not display an image unless a cover image has been set.

Scroll down to set up your:

• Announcement Description (will display on your widget under "Description")
  • Embed a YouTube, Spotify, Vimeo, or Bandcamp link
  • Add external images
  • Add external links
• Genre & Event Tags (tags can also be used for Advanced Widget configurations)

• Ticket Link and URL (Use VP link, Use VP link in a new tab, Use external link, No ticket link)
• Custom Ticket Button Text (ex: Tickets, Free, Buy Tickets, etc)

We are support excited that our description section can now support embeds. Use this feature to embed an artist's latest music video on YouTube or even their latest release on Spotify. To add an embed code, click the embed icon in the Description section.

This will pull up the embed window where you can select the Embed Type and paste the embed code. For more information on how to retrieve an embed code from each platform please check out these articles:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• Spotify
• BandCamp

Saving your changes

After you make your initial changes, a "Save" button will appear at the bottom of the screen. Simply click the button to save your updates or click "cancel" to revert your edits. Once you have saved your changes, you will notice a "close" button at the top left corner. This button will close the announcement window and return you to the event page.

Once you have saved your initial changes, any further edits you make will display an "Update" button. Simply click this button to save your edits, and then click "close" to exit the announcement window.