Linktree for DJs, bands and musicians: free and better than anything else

Partynado Team5 min read

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A booker hears your name in the line-up, looks you up on Instagram and lands on your Linktree. There are eleven buttons: Spotify, SoundCloud, a Mixcloud set from the summer before last, the merch shop and, somewhere in between, your email address. What they actually wanted to know is nowhere to be found: When are you playing next, and where? This is exactly where a traditional link list falls short. That's why we built Artist Profiles that understand what a gig is. Completely free, with no pricing tiers and no credit card.

A link list doesn't know about dates

Linktree mainly does one thing: display links one below the other. In this model, a link consists of text and a URL. There is no further context. Your next gig is therefore just a button labelled "Tickets Zürich". By Sunday, it's outdated and you have to remove it yourself.

With us, a gig is its own entry with a date, venue, city and time zone. Your next date appears at the top of your profile, and upcoming gigs appear as cards below it. Once they are over, they automatically move into your past gigs. You don't have to clean anything up.

There are two ways to add dates to your profile. If the party is listed on our platform, find it in the settings and link it to your profile. For recurring parties, you can add several dates at once. If the gig is happening elsewhere, simply enter the date, venue and city yourself. External gigs count just as much. You shouldn't have to hide half your tour just because it isn't running through our platform.

Your profile keeps itself up to date

This is the part a general-purpose tool can't provide. Add your public Spotify Artist URL once. If a promoter then adds you to a line-up and the Artist ID matches exactly, the date automatically appears on your profile. The date is already there when you open your profile, without anyone having to enter it again.

It works both ways. You also appear in the line-up on the party page, with a link back to your profile. Anyone who wants to see who is playing on Saturday can click your name directly and land on your page. With a link list, you have to build this path yourself every time, for example through a story that disappears after 24 hours.

There's one thing we deliberately state openly, because others like to keep it vague: the system checks whether the Spotify profile exists and whether the ID matches exactly. It does not prove who owns the profile. That's why we don't call it "verified", but simply a match. That alone saves you the work of adding the gig yourself.

Get discovered without posting the link

A traditional link list has only one source of visitors: you. You have to post it, otherwise nothing happens there. It is a destination, not a place where people discover you.

Your profile is part of the platform people already use to find their next night out. Partynado currently features around 1,600 upcoming parties and more than 1,100 venues. The line-ups include around 3,300 acts. People come to the platform through cities, genres, venues and line-ups - and every one of these routes can lead them to you. You also appear in the public Artist Directory as soon as you have set your slug.

One small detail mattered to us more than it might seem at first: your profile URL contains no language code. It is partynado.com/artists/yourname and stays the same in every country. One address for your Instagram bio that you will never have to change again.

Built for artists, not for everyone

Linktree is deliberately general-purpose. It works for dentists, coaches, bakeries, podcasts and, yes, for you too. That's not a criticism, it's the business model: a tool that roughly fits many use cases, with a free tier to get started and more features in the higher-priced plans. The trade-off is that it doesn't know your world. It doesn't know what a line-up, a resident or a day rave is. For a club night, it offers the same building blocks as it does for a tax consultancy.

We deliberately chose the opposite approach. Partynado is built for parties in Switzerland and Germany, and the profiles are for the artists who perform there. For DJs just as much as for live acts, bands and producers. That's why the genres are real music genres rather than free-text fields. That's why the link hub recognises Bandcamp, Beatport, Resident Advisor and Mixcloud by their domains and automatically sets the right icon. That's why the page header feels like a stage in the dark rather than a business card. And that's why music plays directly on the page: you can feature your latest release and let visitors play your top tracks with a click.

You notice the difference in the small decisions: a booking button opens your email app with a pre-filled subject line. Past gigs remain as a reference instead of simply disappearing. One accent colour shapes the whole page, so your profile doesn't look like 200 others. None of this is spectacular technology. Those details come from focusing on what artists need.

If you need a page for newsletters, a shop and a contact form, a general-purpose tool is probably exactly right for you. If you make music and play live, our Artist Profile is made for you. We build these profiles specifically for artists and the way you work. That's what makes them a good fit.

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What does it cost?

Nothing. No subscription, no credit card, no features locked behind a paywall. And there is no logo stuck at the bottom that you have to pay to remove. Profile picture, tagline, story, up to five genres, six social fields, up to 20 custom links, accent colour, booking button and your gigs: that is the complete profile, not a stripped-down preview.

You can be ready to go in just a few minutes: create an Artist Account, choose your slug and add your links. You can see everything you can add on the page for artists. And if something is missing, write to us. We develop the profiles together with the artists who use them.

Enough reading. Go out.

The parties sit in the search, with filters for city, date, genre and category.