About Planet Zoop

Does the world really need another event calendar?

It needs a better one.

Over the past 10 years I have spent an extraordinary amount of time managing and promoting events. That usually means going from site to site, filling out long terrible event forms, and entering the same information over and over again. It is tedious, inefficient, and nobody likes doing it.

Getting people to submit events is a constant struggle. Managing a community calendar is slow, repetitive work, and most calendars end up out of date because the process is too painful for everyone involved. I wanted to build something better.

PlanetZoop was created to solve these problems.

At its core, PlanetZoop is built around a simple idea: calendars should not exist in isolation. They should work together creating a local ecosystem. Association calendars should be able to automatically pull in events from their members. Venue calendars should be able to share events with local media calendars and community guides. Promoters and performers should be able to fill out one form and submit their event to multiple places instead of starting over every time.

That is the real problem PlanetZoop is trying to solve.

Designed for everyone in events

For venues and clubs, PlanetZoop makes it easy to add a modern events calendar to a website with a single line of code. In just a few minutes, a venue can show upcoming events, accept submissions, and give visitors a better way to discover what is happening. Instead of maintaining a static page or struggling with a clunky calendar system, the venue gets a flexible calendar that can grow with them.

For associations, media companies, and community organizations, PlanetZoop makes it possible to curate a strong local calendar without manually entering every event. Calendars can pull from multiple sources, focus on a specific neighborhood or cover an entire city, and filter by the categories that matter most. A local guide can curate a list that is always current.

For performers and promoters, the biggest advantage is speed. Submitting events should not feel like punishment. PlanetZoop is designed to make event submission as fast and painless as possible. Instead of typing the same details into multiple sites, the goal is to submit once and distribute widely. Artists and promoters also get a profile that shows their upcoming and past events, helping create a stronger record of where they have performed and who they have shared bills with.

For fans and the community, PlanetZoop makes local discovery easier. People should not have to check ten different calendars just to find out what is happening nearby. On PlanetZoop, they can follow venues, performers, and organizers, discover events close to them, and get a much clearer picture of what is happening in their neighborhood. They can subscribe to multiple calendars or customize their own.

Make events easier

One of the biggest goals behind the platform is to remove as much manual work as possible. Installing a calendar should take minutes, not days. Event submissions should be quick. Existing event feeds should be reusable. Public submissions should be easy to enable. The entire system should reduce labor, not create more of it.

That same thinking applies to event entry. If you have a flyer, you should be able to snap a photo and upload it. PlanetZoop uses advanced automation to pull the event details into the form instantly. It also works with screenshots of existing event listings.

"We’ve eliminated the 'copy-paste' nightmare. If you have a flyer, you have an event listing."

The system then verifies the venue against a database of verified locations, helping add useful details like address, map information, and related venue data without forcing someone to type everything by hand. The goal is simple: less data entry, fewer mistakes, and a much faster path from promotion to publication.

Take a screenshot of an event and the system pulls out all the data and fills out the form for you in a few seconds:

A lot of people may ask, "I already have a calendar. Why would I switch?"

Because existing calendars do not really solve the full problem. They may display events, but they do not reduce the work it takes to keep those events updated, connected, and distributed. PlanetZoop is not just another calendar widget. It is part of a larger system designed to connect venues, organizers, artists, media outlets, and fans in a specific local area.

The transition also should not be difficult. A calendar should be easy to install, easy to style, and easy to integrate into an existing website. It should feel less like replacing your infrastructure and more like upgrading a tool that was overdue for improvement. Visitors should not need to learn something new. They should just notice that the calendar is easier to use, more complete, and more current.

You will notice that your website gets more traffic and your events get more exposure. We use advanced SEO methods to create the calendar and event pages. These pages add fresh structured content to your website, increasing your search visibility. Your events also automatically get posted on PlanetZoop.

This project comes from lived experience. I have been involved in the event world since I was a teenager. I have worked as a musician, live sound engineer, graphic designer, venue manager, booker, promoter, and producer. I have helped create everything from small art openings to large events with hundreds of vendors, multiple stages, and live performers.

My partner and I ran a web development company that built event registration websites, ticketing systems, registration forms, schedules, and calendars for large events and expos.

In 2017 I launched Digifli Community Bulletin Boards to make flyer distribution faster and more efficient, replacing the old routine of printing stacks of flyers and walking them around town with tape and a stapler. Between Digifli and years of event production, I have spent decades seeing firsthand where the process breaks down.

PlanetZoop comes directly out of that experience.

The world does not need another disconnected event calendar.

It does need a better way for event information to move between the people who create events, the places that host them, the organizations that promote them, and the communities that want to discover them.

That is what PlanetZoop is built to do.

Wes Warren

PlanetZoop Founder

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I also build giant metal robots out of scrap metal, create LED sculptures, paint, and help run a nonprofit art gallery called Studio 23.