Bandsintown
For active live music enthusiasts and concert-goers who use streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music to track their favorite artists.
Snapshot
Who is Bandsintown?
Connecting live music fans with personalized concert alerts and discovery tools based on real-time listening habits.
Target audience
Portfolio
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Bandsintown Concerts
v10.0.6
6mo ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Bandsintown?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Live music discovery and artist-fan engagement
Scale
indie
Target audience
Active live music enthusiasts and concert-goers who use streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music to track their favorite artists.
Signature Patterns
- •Deep integration with third-party music streaming services for automated personalization.
- •Utility-first monetization model focused on ticket vendor referrals rather than in-app advertising.
- •Focus on location-based discovery and push-notification-driven user retention.
Portfolio momentum
Maintains a consistent development cycle for its flagship title with 6 updates released in the last 6 months.
Company profile
low confidence- Headquarters
- New York, USA
Portfolio
What does Bandsintown ship?
Apps
1 app analysed
Bandsintown finds concerts and notifies you so you’ll never miss another show.
B2B demand data from tour requests provides unique promoter value
- Automated concert discovery via music library synchronization keeps fans informed about local live performances
- Unreliable notification system fails to alert users about ticket sales or upcoming shows for followed artists
Distributed across 17 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 1 of 1 app with localized market data · last scanned .
Americas (4)
- Brazil1 / 1
- Canada1 / 1
- Mexico1 / 1
- United States1 / 1
Europe (7)
- France1 / 1
- Germany1 / 1
- Italy1 / 1
- Portugal1 / 1
- Spain1 / 1
›+2 more europe markets
- Turkey1 / 1
- United Kingdom1 / 1
Asia-Pacific (6)
- Australia1 / 1
- India1 / 1
- Indonesia1 / 1
- Japan1 / 1
- Singapore1 / 1
›+1 more asia-pacific market
- Vietnam1 / 1
Core markets (1/1 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
0
Positive apps
1
Neutral / mixed
0
Negative apps
55/100
Avg sentiment score
Rivals
Who does Bandsintown compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(1)
Songkick serves the exact same job-to-be-done as Bandsintown, focusing exclusively on concert discovery and artist tracking with a massive, mature user base.
Contenders(2)
DICE is a high-velocity competitor that combines discovery with a proprietary, anti-scalping ticketing ecosystem.
Shotgun aggressively targets the electronic and nightlife scene with a high release cadence and social-first ticketing features.
Same space(3)
Eventbrite serves a broader event discovery market, including workshops and local gatherings, rather than focusing solely on live music.
StubHub is the industry standard for secondary ticket sales, serving as a transactional destination rather than a discovery app.
While a massive player in the entertainment space, Ticketmaster is primarily a transactional platform rather than a discovery-first tool.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Bandsintown
Bottom line
Bandsintown is a highly specialized publisher that has secured a dominant niche in the music category through ecosystem integration. Their strategic value lies in their high-intent user data and established artist-side infrastructure.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 1
- With full intel:
- 0
- With overview:
- 1
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- yes