New MySpace Application for concert or tour dates

I think these might become a bit of a feature on the blog – little quick posts that point out a neat little tool that can help you in your mission to market your music.

We covered ArtistData the other day, which amongst other things gives you greater control over listing tour dates. Well I’m not sure if the application covered in this post will read the feed from ArtistData or not – I’m not that techy, but I assume it will. Let me know if I’m wrong!

So, what is it?

It’s a MySpace application from the lovely people at iLike. Great site that you should and probably do know about – it’s not in my top 5 of places that you should be using, but it’s not far behind. The Universal Artist Dashboard is good if you are an artist, and although it’s not as comprehensive as ArtistData looks like it will be for posting to all your profiles at once, it’s a pretty serious tool. It remains an awesome route to fans for larger artists.

But that’s not what this post is about!

They have just released an App for MySpace that replaces your MySpace calendar for listing your dates. As you’ll know the MySpace calendar isn’t very attractive and doesn’t allow any of the features that this brings to your profile. As well as being update-able from your iLike UAD, if you have one, so that MySpace updates with facebook etc, the App also has the ability to host buy links for tickets. There’s more – a whole load of info is dragged into the event page automatically – which friends are attending, venue map and details of pre-gig bars nearby. All  sounds pretty good and gives that little bit more engagement with your fans.

Add to that that it is customizable to fit in with the look of your page and it seems like a worthwhile MySpace page upgrade. Check it out here – Concerts powered by iLike

Note to self – make sure we put this in the next edition of Make It On MySpace!