Getting an audience

Discovery is part of the same system

On most platforms, listing an event and marketing it are two separate jobs: you publish somewhere, then go run ads or post on social media to get anyone to see it. On Venued they are the same system. The people browsing the app are there to find something to do, and a published event is exactly the kind of thing the feed is built to surface.

What decides who sees your event

Interests and proximity, mainly. Every event carries the topics it's about — the same ones you pick while creating it in Studio — and the feed matches those against what a person has shown interest in and where they are. A well-tagged event in the right city reaches people the feed already believes want to see it, not everyone.

Tag accurately, not broadly. An event tagged with everything competes for attention with events that are actually about those things, and ranks worse for all of them.

People, not just listings

Venued also matches people to each other around an event, not only events to people: attendees can see who else is going and connect beforehand. That's deliberate — a room fills faster when going isn't a solo decision, and it's why the pitch is "find people to do stuff with" rather than "browse a listings page."

What you control from Studio

You still choose visibility and reach explicitly: an event can be public and open to discovery, or shared privately with a link. Studio's analytics show where interest actually came from, so you can see whether a slow sale window is a discovery problem or a pricing one before changing either.