Playing Here currently has 578 registered users. You can see them all on the new user list. I’m not really sure why so many people have created accounts. There were previously only two advantages to having an account: you could leave comments and you could subscribe to email alerts. But less than 100 people have […]
Every city, state, and venue page now has an iCal subscription link. These links allow you to subscribe to event calendars in many calendar applications, including Apple iCal, Mozilla Sunbird, and Google Calendar.
Other recent updates include browsing bands, states, and cities. The style has also changed to something that’s hopefully a bit more flexible […]
Just today we reached 10,000 shows listed on Playing Here. Sure, that’s not a huge number considering how many shows are actually happening, but it’s a good start. On to 20,000!
You might wonder why we’re bothering with a new site for live music listings when several sites already exist for that. Well, we hope we can do live music listings better. One way we’re doing it better is by reusing information already posted on other sites, so bands don’t need to do any extra work […]
This is where we’ll be posting notices of new features on Playing Here and other related discussion. For an example, you might be interested in the heat map we use to gauge where we should be focusing our search for more shows. It measures upcoming events on Playing Here per state, weighted against state populations.
Years and Users
Playing Here traffic per week, first two months
Traffic on Playing Here is steadily increasing, despite the very limited publicizing we’ve done so far. It’s almost entirely from search engines, which seem to love that every event, every venue, every date, every month, every city, every state, every year and every user has a separate […]