You’ve landed at 5gig.com and you’re not too sure what it’s all about? You don’t know how you can take advantage of announcing your gigs here? Don’t worry, we explain it to you and before the end of a track you’ll be adding gigs accessible to thousands of fans in the UK. If you’re fed up of appearing in dozens of websites, sending emails to friends, keeping your agenda updated, mailing list, contacting specialised websites and even so you’re gigs are never a full-house, keep on reading to understand the advantages of announcing your gigs in 5gig.

Adding a gig on 5gig.com is easy

It’s so easy, anyone can do it: fans, users, artists, venues or any other person interested in music. If you don’t add your concerts, maybe some else is doing it for you. You only need to look for your name in our artists search engine to prove this. You don’t appear in our artists database? No problem, you can register in less than 1 minute using the artists registration form. Ready? You’re now prepared to add your first concert.

Your effort is not in vain: add your information only once, then we'll spread it

Isn’t it frustrating to send so many emails, bulletins, faxes, letters, messages, calls, posters, etc? Forget about all that. With no.5gig.com you add your gigs just once and with the automatic sindication through RSS and our email alerts it will be notified to hundreds of users. We put at your disposal gigs widgets so that you can easily add them to your website, your fans are already doing it! Also, you will have a special URL similar to MySpace so you can send it to those persons you used to send the information again and again: http://no.5gig.com/artists/n/Your+Band+Name/.

You’ll reach a specialised and increasing audience

The users and visitors of 5gig.com include all kind of agents: venue managers, artists, promotion agencies, and, of course: fans. Apart from our faithful traffic, we have much traffic from search engines, with visitors eager to discover new music.

You’ll finally appear in search engines such as Google, MSN, Yahoo…

A great part of our visitors arrive at our website by using the main search engines. We won’t complicate things, check yourself in google.com.

Interact with your fans and other artists and venues

Don’t just publish your information, users can leave comments and messages for you in your artist profile and in each of your concerts. Use this tool and make sure that the talk of town information works. You can also contact with lots of artists and venues which are already advertising with us, make great contacts in no.5gig.com. You can also access very interesting information: how many users receive your alerts, how many sign up to go to your gig, how many visit your artist profile, etc.

Promote your albums and songs

Although we’re specialised in live music and gigs, we also give artists the opportunity to promote their albums. If your albums appear in www.musicbrainz.org they will also appear in no.5gig.com automatically, without working double. We have a link to the main music stores online so that you don’t miss any sale.