Wendy DayCEO/Coach, PowerPlays Coaching, LLC · Helping rappers make money with their music. Building millionaires in the urban music industry since 1992.

This week I interviewed Benji Stein at Booking-agent.io and Playlistsupply.. Im excited to try them

4 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Benji Stein built BookingAgent.io to help emerging artists book their own tours without an agent. The platform maps venues and buyer contacts, then suggests where you could play based on comparable artists. It's built for people without touring history or big social metrics that traditional agents won't touch.

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BookingAgent.io is our latest tool. It's a very similar philosophy. It's another data-driven tool. This time it's a little bit enhanced with AI, but it's basically a search engine for venues and talent buyer contact information. There's a category of artists who, you know, they've already done their diligence doing digital marketing. They've got their first, you know, core fans and they're ready to book that first show. But because they don't have any past show or touring history, no booking agent is willing to take a risk on them. Nowadays is very dependent on metrics, on, you know, Instagram following and how many monthly listeners you have. And just because they don't have the metrics all summed up, some— a booking agent might not be ready to take a risk on them. And so this tool is basically built to make it so that any artist, any manager can kind of book their own show, book their own tour. It's basically a map interface, and you type in an artist similar to your client, similar to the music you make. It's, it's based on similar artists