Local Fan Base

Estimated Local Fan Base: Gigmor Exclusive

We are super excited to announce the arrival of a new tool that will help both the artist and talent seekers during the booking process, Gigmor’s Estimated Local Fan Base

It’s designed to see artists’ audience growth and career trajectory in one place. We believe this will become an essential tool for indie artists who are growing their career and building a fan base as well as for talent seekers who are trying to predict ticket sales and concert attendance.

The Estimated Local Fan Base draws data from an artists social media in a way that is totally unique to Gigmor. Our engineering team developed an accurate way of counting how many fans that artist has in their own city. They also went one step further and developed a way to tell how many fans that artist has in the Talent Seekers city.

Let’s use Junior227 GigScore for example.

  • Junior227 is a Pro Member.
  • Lives in Denver. 
  • Below ‘Estimated Local Fanbase’ you will see ‘Artist Location.’ 
  • To the right, is ‘My Location’ which is where you are located.
  • Toggle between both to see the difference in the local audience estimate.

In his location, he has an Estimated Fanbase of 60. In LA, it’s 412.  Pretty cool information to have in your arsenal, right? Take a look around Gigmor and you’ll find some pretty amazing artists with some really high scores. Scores that will, hopefully, make booking easier and more reliable for you!  

We’re already planning to add more functionality to what we hope is an essential tool, so stay tuned! To check out how big your local fanbase is, just head to your public profile and click the GigScore tab.

Thanks,

Team Gigmor

From the archive: How to book shows

booking shows

Booking Shows – How To Book a Gig

Booking your first gig is hard. Even if you’ve played a few shows before, booking can still be challenging. That’s exactly why we created Gigmor – to make booking shows as quick and easy as possible. Here are our top tips for early-stage artists to book more and higher quality gigs. Follow these tips and you’ll book a gig in no time!

·      APPLY AND MESSAGE TALENT SEEKERS EARLY

         Most venues and talent bookers will plan their schedules many months in advance. If you’re looking for shows this month, you’re probably out of luck. They want to plan well in advance in case anyone cancels or reschedules. That’s why you should reach out at least 4-6 weeks before you want to play. That gives them time to check you out and to begin putting together a full bill of other artists.

Pro Tip: Even though we recommend planning ahead, you can also check out our gigs page for last minute gigs. Talent seekers will often post gigs with short notice to Gigmor because they had a cancellation or change of plans and need to find an artist fast.

·      UPDATE YOUR GIGGING HISTORY

         This is probably the most overlooked but important part of your Gigmor profile. If you don’t have any gigs under your belt, don’t worry! You’ve probably played at house parties, busked or streamed a performance on YouTube. Put that in your gigging history! Talent seekers want to know where you’ve played and how many people you can draw but, more importantly, they want to know that you’re putting in the effort to play live and build an audience.

·      NETWORK, BUT NOT REALLY 

         Networking is not what you think it is. We should really just eliminate the term and change it to “hang out and make friends” because that’s what real networking is. Let’s say you book a gig on Gigmor, you play the show and it goes well. But now what do you do? Don’t talk to anyone and bounce after your set? NO. This is the perfect time to just hang out. Get to know the people working at the bar, have a drink, make friends. That is key to getting repeat bookings in better time slots.

Hope that helps you gigMORE! 

Rock On, 

Team Gigmor

American Idol Back On Gigmor

American Idol Auditions

We’re proud to announce that AMERICAN IDOL® has partnered with Gigmor for a second year in a row! Idol producers are looking for the #NextIdol for their upcoming season. Gigmor artists can apply for a Front of the Line Pass at 22 regional American Idol auditions which begin in just a few weeks!

Check below for the audition closest to you!

July 23: New York, NY

August 20: Mobile, AL

August 23: Macon, GA

August 23: Tallahassee, FL

August 23: Santa Barbara, CA

August 25: Baton Rouge, LA

August 26: Columbia, SC

August 26: Las Vegas, NV

August 27: Waco, TX

August 29: Knoxville, TN 

August 29: Salt Lake City, UT

September 1: Colorado Springs, CO

September 1: Raleigh, NC

September 4: Washington, D.C.

September 4: Wichita, KS

September 6: San Jose, CA

September 7: Pittsburgh, PA

September 7: Springfield, IL

September 8: Spokane, WA

September 10: Detroit, MI

September 18: Nashville, TN

September 21: Chicago, IL

Our mission is to help indie and unsigned artists grow their careers. We are absolutely thrilled to be working with the talent producers at American Idol. Make sure your profile is complete and then head over to the gigs page. Look for the American Idol auditions posts and apply away!

From the archive: Music Marketing for the Independent Artist