With a Bandsintown Pro for Festivals package, your festival sets are seamlessly distributed across Apple Music, Apple Maps, Shazam, Spotlight Search, and Photos, vastly increasing your festival's reach and driving ticket sales with no extra effort.

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Apple Music uses Bandsintown concert data to showcase upcoming events published to Bandsintown on the app’s homepage, artist pages, Concerts tab, and via push notifications.

The Apple Music app homepage features a Concerts carousel with nearby shows. Fans can click through to see event details.

In the Concerts tab (Search → Concerts), fans can browse events by location, date, and genre — and tap through to venue details and ticket links without leaving the app.

When fans visit an Apple Music artist page, they’ll see the artist’s upcoming events listed directly alongside their music. Festival set listings published on Bandsintown will be included in these events.

Apple Music listeners also receive push notifications when artists they follow are playing a show nearby.

Apple Maps uses Bandsintown concert data to showcase upcoming events when fans search for venues.

When fans search for venues on Apple Maps, they can tap the Tickets button on the venue's business listing and select Shazam in order to see a list of upcoming shows at that venue, including an artist’s set at your festival when published on Bandsintown. Fans can tap on any event to see more information, add it to their calendar, buy tickets, or view more information on the Bandsintown event page.

Shazam uses Bandsintown concert data to power event listings that appear when fans Shazam a song, search for an artist, or browse the Concerts page.

When users Shazam a song, events - including festival set listings - synced from Bandsintown appear in the Concerts Near You section on the song recognition page. Users can tap on the event to view more information, buy tickets, add it to their calendar, and save the event.

Additionally, when users visit an artist profile on Shazam, events synced from Bandsintown appear in the Concerts Near You section.

When users click on the Concerts tab on the Shazam homescreen, events synced from Bandsintown appear in the Explore section. Users can tap on the event to view more information, buy tickets, add it to their calendar, and save the event.

Apple uses Bandsintown concert data to automatically enrich photos taken during artists’ sets, connecting the memory to your festival.

When fans take photos at your festivals, iOS recognizes the concert event and automatically groups those photos — surfacing the set list, artists, and venue details directly in the Photos app. Fans don’t need to do anything as long as your sets are listed on Bandsintown.

Fans can use Spotlight Search to discover when and where an artist is playing by searching their name directly from their iPhone home screen. When the artist’s Apple Music URL is connected to Bandsintown and your festival sets are published on Bandsintown, Spotlight Search will show:

First, confirm that the eligibility criteria above have all been met and that more than 48 hours have passed since publishing your set listing. If it’s still not appearing, then please contact our Pro Support team so we can assist you.