Songkick gets a boot up its traffic, as Yahoo integrates its gig listings API
And as of right now Yahoo has also now integrated data from the API belonging to Songkick, a UK-based startup which has focused lazer-like on gig listings and everything surrounding those events from fan buzz to ticketing to even preserving your excited tweets from the gig.
The effect means that if you search for Lady Gaga, you’ll get direct links to Songkick where you can see her latest gigs, but also the gigs closest to you. Because Songkick can work out where you’re searching from via IP address.
The launch is in the US first, and presumably Songkick’s data will be rolled out to other Yahoo properties in due course. The move follows an integration with YouTube, the BBC and Vevo and it’s something of a validation for Songkick that big US players like YouTube and Yahoo are using its data.
But it also means a big traffic boost for Songkick, of course, and a growing user-baser in the US.
As such, co-founder Ian Hogarth, is moving over to the valley for late October.