A new platform called Booking-Agent.IO is leveraging artificial intelligence to create a more accurate and up-to-date directory of music venues and their contact information, potentially disrupting the long-standing dominance of print directories.
The directory business hasn't changed much in the last 50 years, but a group of young entrepreneurs are looking to shake things up with the help of artificial intelligence. Promoters and booking agents have long relied on printed and bound phone and email directories for connecting with the tens of thousands of venues that make up the global touring network.
Booking a 25-date tour might require contacting more than 100 venues and clubs for calendar availability, creating reliable demand for companies like Pollstar, VenuesNow and groups like the International Association of Venue Managers to print and publish an updated version of their database each year. Updating these directories can be a huge undertaking, requiring hundreds of phone calls, emails, and queries by the publisher’s staff.Entrepreneur and founder of Booking-Agent.IO, believes there is a better way, and his new plan could revolutionize the way valuable information, such as professional contact details, is compiled and monetized by publishers. Booking-Agent.IO’s data comes from regularly scraping the websites of major venues, and then analyzing and rating that data using AI tools. Contacts for each venue are cross-checked in real time against a number of databases including LinkedIn, Hunter.IO, and Apollo, he said, and “searches specifically for the talent buyer of that venue, providing users with an email score” to rate the likely accuracy of the lead. “We started building this tool a number of years ago, before the prevalence of ChatGPT,” Stein said, noting “it’s basically a search engine for talent buyers and for venues,” adding that “it allows you to see venues on a regional basis with information like capacity, upcoming events, and social media links.” Stein said he expects most current Booking-Agent.IO users to fit into the DIY category and are either self-represented or working with artists without a full-time agent. When available, BookingAgent.io also includes contact information for other positions like production manager and marketing director.Pricing is $49.99 per month for the basic membership, which comes with unlimited searches and 100 contacts per month. Booking-Agent.IO also offers enterprise subscription plans and only charges users for contacts that are accurate. Challenging Pollstar’s dominance and market share seems unlikely in the long-term, but Stein says when it comes to data accuracy, he believes Booking-Agent.IO has a long-term advantage, noting that print directories eventually become outdated and need to be replaced. As users look to purchase a more recent edition of their booking directory, Stein hopes buyers will increasingly seek out an alternative and find Booking-Agent.io. “We’re very fresh. It’s a new tool,” Stein says. “Up until now, there’s been nothing like it and we’ve gotten really positive feedback from the kind of music industry people that we’ve onboarded
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