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Alright, I'll post this as top-level: > The sole reason I’m still on Facebook is because events are organized on Facebook. (eksemplar) I study Music Managemen
by MrJagil 8y ago
Alright, I'll post this as top-level:
> The sole reason I’m still on Facebook is because events are organized on Facebook. (eksemplar)
I study Music Management at the conservatory (university), and spend most of my time on events and festivals. It is my impression that few in the tech business understands the magnitude of this market, and how Facebook entirely owns it. The entire concert-format is under enormous pressure from the booming festival and club scene, making services like Songkick irrelevant. ResidentAdvisor is good, but too editorial, too little tech.
Facebook democratised event-making in a great way. You can trust that a good portion of the people attending an event is actually going. You can make events private, which is good for pirate-parties and other underground events (Lead Users). And importantly, it gives event makers insight into who is coming, how many, how the growth curve is etc. Artists can link to their personalised profile, that people will actually follow for updates. This is hugely important for creators.
If you start a competitor, it'd be natural to focus on music, but then you'll still leave all the people interested mostly in art-exhibitions on Facebook. Facebook is content-neutral, which is a huge advantage. Further, they have an entire business-suite platform (groups) on top of this, meaning I can discuss our events, plan them, while linking to relevant artists, venues etc on Facebook. I can book artists, book a venue and market the event entirely on the FB-platform. That is an important advantage in the space of social media.
Facebook is, without comparison, the best tool for events.
- f_allwein 8y agoIt also baffles me why there is no good (open?) solution for showing, finding and managing events I might want to attend in my town. Music venues, cinemas, theatres, ... all have their own separate listings, and in most places, it is impossible to see them all in one place, let alone to import them to your own calendar, or to get personalised recommendations.
- paps 8y agoFacebook Local?
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- jschwartzi 8y agoSpotify has a great feature that shows you concerts in your area by artists that you've saved. It's how I find out who's playing way early. You can do that on Facebook too but you'd have to actually tell Facebook which artists you like, follow them, etc..
- morgante 8y agohttps://www.facebook.com/events/ https://www.facebook.com/events/ provides precisely that and is one of the things which makes Facebook such a great platform for events.
- azernik 8y agoYup! Partner dancer here. Not just event-making, but general community organization. Regular venues can have Pages, organize Events, and usually have Groups for their regulars. And all this can be run by one or two part-time or volunteer workers. Annual events usually have a Page that persists year to year, and an Event for each year's event. Facebook is clearly aware of this kind of market - they recently added features that are super useful for multi-day events, like workshops 10-5 every day for a three-day weekend and dances on two of those three nights.
- forgotAgain 8y agoEvents would be a nice service for Twitter to move into.
- slouch 8y agoI don't think so. Twitter is the social network where I interact with a majority of strangers from far away.
- kpennell 8y agoHere's my little project that is trying to make live music discovery easier: https://yaymusicmap.com/location/sfbay https://yaymusicmap.com/location/sfbay But I agree with all your points. FB dominates the event space. It's amazing. http://world.timeout.com/ http://world.timeout.com/ does a great job mapping fb events.