The 5-minute version. Full detail is in the User guide. App: listings.mobiusindustries.com.
For one show, the tool gets you listed across many outlets at once: our own Google-readable site (culturelistings.co.uk), listing emails, and auto-filled submission forms. It picks the outlets by geography + genre. It's a listings tool — press releases and editorial pitches go through Roxhill, not here.
Two tabs do the work: New batch (add shows) and Manage listings (check each one and work through its outlets). Emails, Outlets and Suggest outlet on the right are admin.
Title, producer and venue autocomplete; dates and prices prefill where we have them. Set Genre tags (they switch on specialist outlets — Comedy adds Chortle and British Comedy Guide, for example). Press night is optional — leave it blank for smaller shows. Prices can be any amount (£15.25 is fine) and must include any booking fee — what the customer pays at checkout, which is the law for advertised prices. They're in the venue's currency — £ for UK venues, $ for New York and Australia.
Irregular dates (Christmas shows, pantos, added matinées): open Irregular dates? under the playing pattern. Find in our press releases pulls the “Listings information” block from the release (the FINAL version where there is one), or paste it from anywhere. Read the dates turns it into one line per performance in about 15 seconds. Check the list, and anything it flags in red, before you approve.
Main image: paste a Dropbox link, or click or upload an image — it's saved to Dropbox under Listings/<show title> and the link fills itself. Add the show title first. Landscape, at least 1920px wide.
Submit, then click Review in Manage listings next to each new draft.
A draft opens on its details. Check them and press Approve & send out at the top. (Checked several already? Manage listings has an approve link on each draft and Approve all drafts.) The details fold away and the page shows the show's Distribution list, building itself — about a minute. It updates on its own; you can carry on with other listings meanwhile.
The list is grouped by the kind of work, and each group has one button:
Working: forms show Fills itself with a ⚡ Fill button, and there's no “install the auto-fill extension” line.
Not yet: install it from the install page, then reload the listings tab.
New version (0.3.1, 21 Oct) — needed for IanVisits, Love Camden and the local papers. Re-download the zip and click reload on it in chrome://extensions; it doesn't update itself.
Something wrong with an outlet (dead link, changed form, bounced address)? Click its small report issue link — it goes on the fix list. Stuck otherwise? Ping the team channel.