Using TAP
One platform. More ways to move your music career forward.
TAP is the professional network and career ecosystem for musicians: one place to build your professional presence, grow your network and reach more of the industry around your music career.
Your TAP profile is your professional identity across the platform.
It gives artists and industry professionals a clearer picture of who you are, what you do and what you’re looking for.
Build your profile with your music, images, live performance footage, experience, availability, genres, technical requirements, links and other relevant information.
You don’t need everything figured out from day one. Start with what you have and continue building your profile as your career develops.
The music industry runs on relationships. TAP is designed to make more of those relationships possible.
Discover other musicians and connect with people based on what they actually do, not simply who appears in your social feed.
Use TAP to
- Find musicians in your city
- Discover potential collaborators
- Connect with artists in similar or complementary genres
- Find session musicians and performers
- Build relationships across your local music community
- Create connections that may lead to future projects and opportunities
TAP aims to build a professional network specifically around the music industry — connecting artists not only with each other, but also managers, labels, organisations and other industry individuals who can play a role in career development.
TAP is building a growing network of industry professionals, including managers, labels, bookers, publishers, promoters and other key industry contacts.
Explore professional profiles to understand who they are, what they do, the artists and genres they work with, and whether they are currently open to enquiries, submissions or new opportunities.
At the same time, your TAP Artist Profile gives industry professionals a clear way to discover your music, experience and career direction.
It’s about making the industry easier to navigate, creating more relevant connections and giving emerging artists a clearer pathway towards their next opportunity.
Building a music career requires more than making music.
Artists regularly need producers, photographers, videographers, studios, marketing support, equipment, professional advice and dozens of other products and services.
The TAP Marketplace brings more of these together in one place.
Depending on what is currently available, you may find
- Producers, mixing and mastering engineers
- Photographers and videographers
- Recording and rehearsal spaces
- Marketing and creative services
- Music equipment and technology
- Release and artist-development support
- Professional and business services
- Other products and services relevant to musicians
Our goal is not simply to create another directory.
We want TAP to become a place where artists can more easily understand what they need next, find the right people to help them and access pathways that move their development forward.
This is an important part of where TAP is going.
Musicians spend money developing their careers: recording, production, photography, equipment, promotion, rehearsal and other professional services.
They also have the same everyday expenses as everyone else.
TAP is building a rewards ecosystem designed to make more of that existing spending work for your music career.
Through participating Lifestyle Benefits, Marketplace partners and other TAP partnerships, eligible spending can earn TAP Points.
Those points have real value within TAP and can be put back towards eligible services, products and other opportunities across the platform.
The idea is simple: spend on things you were already going to buy, earn TAP Points, and put that value back into your music career.
Some partners may also provide exclusive offers or member rates, but Lifestyle Benefits are not built around discounts alone. The bigger goal is to create value from everyday spending that can be redirected towards your creative development.
Knowing what to do next can be just as difficult as finding the right person to do it with.
TAP’s Tools & Resources bring practical music-industry information together and make it easier to find, understand and use.
Resources may cover areas such as
- Grants and funding
- Artist profiles and EPKs
- Live performance and venue preparation
- Agreements and bookings
- Technical riders
- ABNs, invoicing and getting paid
- Marketing and promotion
- Releasing music
- Superannuation and insurance
- Professional and career development
Where great resources already exist elsewhere in the industry, we want to help you find them. Where useful information or tools are missing, we want to work with artists, professionals and industry organisations to help fill those gaps.
Where TAP is going
TAP is still at the beginning.
We’re building towards a connected professional ecosystem where an artist can increasingly manage more of the journey surrounding their career from one place.
As more artists, partners, services and industry organisations join, the network becomes more valuable for everyone using it.
New features, development pathways, opportunities and ways to earn and use TAP Points will continue to be introduced as TAP evolves.
Our goal is not to replace the relationships that drive the music industry. It’s to make more of those relationships, resources and opportunities accessible to more musicians.
Start using TAP
Where musicians meet opportunity.
The best place to begin is your profile. Build your professional presence, explore the community and start discovering what TAP can offer you.
You’re joining at the beginning
The platform you see today is only the starting point, and we’re actively learning from how artists and industry use it.
If something could work better, or you need something that isn’t here yet, tell us. The people joining now aren’t just early users. They’re shaping what TAP becomes.