The moment you confirm a gig, everything else kicks off. Here’s where your show goes.
Instantly
- Your artist page updates. The show appears on your page the second you confirm — anyone looking at it sees the new date without so much as a refresh.
- Your gig gets its own page. Venue, address, time, cover, a calendar button and your Tip Jar if you have one, at a link that doesn’t expire. It keeps working after the show is over.
- A calendar link is created. Every show gets an “Add to Calendar” link fans can tap to drop it straight into their phone.
On its own, with a way out
You don’t get asked about each destination. Your confirmation text tells you what’s about to happen:
All set! Tipitina’s, Fri Jun 12, 9 PM. We’ll text your fans and submit it to local listings. Fix, cancel or skip any of it: igotagig.com/s/…
Tap the link and you’ll see Who we’ll tell, with a switch for each place. Turn off anything you’d rather skip for that gig. What goes where depends on your plan:
- Local listings. WWOZ, OffBeat and WTUL. Each morning we gather the day’s gigs and a real person on our end sends them on, formatted the way each listing wants. OffBeat goes in through CitySpark, the listings system that also reaches Gambit, Where Y’at, WGNO and Nola Family. We submit — they decide. A submission doesn’t guarantee it runs; the listings make their own editorial calls, same as they always have.
- Your fan list. If fans have signed up for your texts, they hear about the gig. A gig today or tomorrow goes out within about half an hour (but never between 9 PM and 9 AM). Anything later goes in a noon roundup, and a gig in a later week waits for the Monday of its week, so fans hear about it when it’s coming up. Got a presale? Turn on Tell fans now on the gig’s link and it goes in the next noon roundup instead.
Listings and fan texts only cover New Orleans gigs at venues we know. An out-of-town gig still goes on your page.
If something needs a human
Once in a while a show needs a second look before it goes out — an unfamiliar venue, a date that’s already passed, or the same gig texted twice. When that happens, we text you a quick question or hold it for a person to check, so nothing wrong goes out. Check your phone if a show seems to be sitting.