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About Simuze and the music industry. What we build, why, and what we learn from the scene.
BookingBooking · 5 Oct 2026Reading a venue contractMost venue contracts are five pages of boilerplate around three numbers that matter. Here are the three, and the clauses worth your attention.Marten · 2 minPlatformPlatform · 5 Oct 2026How Simuze reads a venue agendaEvery morning a small program reads the agenda of a venue. This is what it fetches, what it never touches, and how a venue gets a wrong listing fixed.Marten · 2 minPlatformPlatform · 28 Sep 2026Nothing loads until you press playVideos on Simuze are a poster until you press play. Here is why, and how the rest of the site is built to load quickly.Marten · 2 minPlatformPlatform · 21 Sep 2026Why we take a share and not your attentionSimuze has no ads. This is how it pays for itself, what share we take from each kind of sale, and why every checkout shows the split.Marten · 2 minBookingBooking · 18 Sep 2026Organising your first showYou want to put on a show. Here is roughly what it takes, and the order it tends to go in.Marten · 3 minPlatformPlatform · 14 Sep 2026Your band already has a pageEvery act and venue in the agendas we read now has a page on Simuze. Here is what is on it before anyone logs in, and what changes when you claim it.Marten · 3 min