Bandsintown adds new Facebook Timeline features

Live music startup Bandsintown has added new Facebook-friendly features to its platform for music artists. People using its service to store their touring plans can now add their entire gigging history to their Facebook Timeline with what Bandsintown promises is a single click. Fans can then click an 'I Was There' button to add individual gigs to their own Timelines, accurately dated. CEO Julien Mitelberg is pitching this as the online social equivalent to fans "holding on to their old ticket stubs and concert pictures". Bandsintown has also beefed up its Facebook functionality in other ways, with new gigs added to its system now automatically shown in fans' news tickers and feeds on the social network. The company says it's now the third biggest music app on Facebook, behind only Spotify and Bandpage. According to AppData, it has 1.6m monthly active users and 120k daily active users. Source: Bandsintown 

Source: AppData - http://tinyurl.com/d3opqsv

Facebook launching Pages Manager app for iPhone

Running a Facebook Page for an artist or music brand? Facebook has a brand new iPhone app just for you. It's called Facebook Pages Manager, and according to its App Store listing it "helps admins connect with their audience and keep up with activity on multiple Pages, all in one place". That includes the ability to post updates and photos as your Page, be notified about new fan activity, and view Facebook's Page Insights analytics from the phone. The app is free to download, and went live in the New Zealand App Store overnight - meaning it should roll out in Western countries over the course of today.
Link - http://tinyurl.com/7swss6l