SoundCloud partners with Ticketmaster to let artists list events

Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with Ticketmaster and Universe, owned by Live Nation, to let artists list events on their profile in a customized way. The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticketmaster through a new promotion program but didn’t give any more details. Artists with SoundCloud’s top-tier Pro plan will be able to use the self-serve ticketing platform Universe to list their events on their profile pages without leaving SoundCloud. They will be able to add or modify events on their page depending on what events they want to promote. SoundCloud will pull the artist’s event data from different ticket platforms, like Ticketmaster and Dice. After that, artists can choose what events to display on their page. Artists can also choose to manually add links to other ticketing platforms. The platform said that it will promote these events through a concert discovery widget on the SoundCloud h ... Read full article.