Help & guides
Short guides for finding karaoke, sharing updates, and keeping local nights easy to trust.
Using KaraokeCrowd
Getting started
How to browse venues, use filters, read the map, follow listings, RSVP, and find the full notification guide.
Karaoke categories
How Hosted shows, Private rooms, and Self-serve work, what details each category needs, and how to choose the right one when adding karaoke.
Following and Notifications
How following a venue triggers email digests, what changes appear, how RSVP works, "not happening" alerts, and the friends system.
Memories
What Memories are, what to share after a karaoke night, where they appear, and how they differ from reviews.
What is a host page?
What a host page shows, and how singers, venues, hosts, and local contributors can use it.
Improving listings
Ways to help KaraokeCrowd grow
The highest-impact ways to help the directory grow: promote your listing, keep local data accurate, import a list, spread the word, and send feedback.
How contributing works
What happens after you share a venue, host, or karaoke night. Status meanings, matching, evidence, and attribution.
Importing a list
When to upload a whole karaoke list instead of one night at a time, which file formats work, what happens after upload, and how to track your import.
Events and recurring karaoke nights
How recurring karaoke nights generate individual events, what Scheduled, Check first, and Verified mean, and how marking a date "not happening" or a schedule change works.
Verification statuses
What Verified, Scheduled, Check first, and Unverified mean on event cards, and what each venue banner is telling you.
How schedules repeat
Turn host and venue schedule wording into the right KaraokeCrowd recurrence, including floating dates and fifth-week cases.
How to Give Good Evidence
What counts as reliable evidence, why direct confirmation matters, and how to help improve local data quality.
Images and Memory photos
What makes a good public listing image, what to avoid, and how alcohol, people, rights, and reports are handled.
Linking a host to existing events
Why a host page can show no upcoming events even when the host is performing, and how to link existing events to a host.
Roles and ownership
Claiming your venue or host profile
How venue operators and karaoke hosts take control of their listing, what Owner and Manager roles mean, and what changes after claiming.
Being a KaraokeCrowd guide
Guide privileges, no-pressure expectations, review standards, and how to handle your own auto-approved edits.
Need something else?
Use the feedback form for bugs, incorrect listings, safety concerns, or anything the guides don't cover.