What does The Davy Agency do?

We are a full-service music marketing studio. We do PR, paid social, music videos, photography, web, screen-printed merch, and sync licensing in-house. Most of our team is made up of working musicians.

Where is The Davy Agency located?

Portland, Oregon. 232 SE Oak St Unit 307, Portland, OR 97214. We work remotely with bands across the US, Canada, UK, and EU.

How much does music marketing cost?

Release campaigns are tiered: Tier 1 ($5K), Tier 2 ($15K), Tier 3 ($40K). Merch and web projects start at $5K. We publish an instant quote calculator at davy.agency/services.

Who has The Davy Agency worked with?

We have run media and marketing campaigns for A Place to Bury Strangers, Bootblacks, Pixel Grip, Kevin Moan, Cold Waves, and fcukers, among others.

Does Davy do screen printing in-house?

Yes. We do real screen printing, never DTF. Tees, hoodies, tour merch, and retail bundles. Multi-color, water-based, in-house in Portland.

Davy Agency · AI search optimization for musicians

Get recommended when fans ask AI.

Fans now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews what to listen to, which record to buy and who is playing tonight. Davy Agency builds artist, estate and label websites that those answer engines can read, trust and cite, then keeps them current through every release.

This is answer engine optimization (AEO) for music: the same craft as band website design, built so that machines get the facts right too.

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Proof · Reno, October 2026

ChatGPT sold a ticket.

At a Kevin Moan + The Howling show in Reno, a fan explained how she found the band. She had asked ChatGPT for bands that sound like Amyl and the Sniffers. It recommended Kevin Moan + The Howling, a Davy Agency client, and told her they were playing that night. She had never heard of them. She came to the show.

That is the whole idea: a clear "for fans of" association plus tour dates a model can surface, turned into a real fan in a real room.

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Case study · The Nerves · Third Man Records

Release-day AI search for a 50th anniversary anthology.

The Nerves are the 1970s power pop trio of Jack Lee, Peter Case and Paul Collins, the band that first released "Hanging on the Telephone". Davy Agency designed and built thenerves.com for Best Collection, the band's anthology on Third Man Records, released 23 October 2026.

On release day the site was rebuilt for answer engines: out-now copy with direct buy and stream links, the full 29-track list, schema.org MusicGroup, MusicAlbum and FAQPage data, an llms.txt summary, and verified citations to the record's coverage in SPIN and FLOOD and its Qobuz feature.

88%Squarespace AI visibility score

5 of 5Branded ChatGPT prompts name the band

29Tracks published as structured data

Measured 24 October 2026, Squarespace AI Visibility, ChatGPT.

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Case study · Jack Lee Archives

Correcting the record at the source.

Jack Lee wrote "Hanging on the Telephone" and "Come Back and Stay", yet most people credit Blondie and Paul Young. Davy Agency built jackleearchives.com, the official archive of the songwriter's catalogue, around that correction.

The site states the facts plainly and marks them up for machines: an 11-question FAQ as structured data, Person, MusicComposition and MusicAlbum schema for the key songs, an llms.txt file written for AI crawlers, and a vault list that captures fans before archival releases.

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What is included

Built for search engines and answer engines.

Structured data

Hand-written schema.org MusicGroup, MusicAlbum, MusicRecording, Person and FAQPage markup for every artist.

llms.txt

A plain-language summary of the artist, the key facts and where to listen, written for AI crawlers.

Crawlable pages

Every word lives in the HTML, not drawn by scripts, so GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can read it.

For fans of

One comparison line, repeated across the site and every profile, so AI tools learn who the artist sounds like.

Release-day updates

Out-now copy, buy and stream links, tracklists and press citations, live the day the record drops.

Measurement

AI visibility prompt tracking before and after each change, reported plainly.

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Questions

AI search for musicians, answered.

What is AI search optimization for musicians?

Also called answer engine optimization (AEO) or generative engine optimization (GEO), it is the work of making an artist easy for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews to describe accurately and recommend. It combines structured data, crawlable copy, an llms.txt file and consistent positioning across the web.

Does AI search optimization replace SEO?

No. It builds on it. The fundamentals that help Google, such as clear titles, real text in the page and structured data, are the same signals answer engines read. AEO adds what matters for recommendations: facts stated plainly, one consistent "for fans of" line, and citations from independent sources.

How long until ChatGPT recommends my band?

Questions that already name the artist can improve within days of a site update. Recommendations to people who have never heard of the artist take longer and depend on press, playlists and profiles across the web. No agency can guarantee that a chatbot will name an artist. Davy Agency builds the signals that make it more likely, and measures the result.

What is an llms.txt file?

A plain-text summary at the root of a website that tells AI tools what the site is about, which facts matter and where to listen or buy. Davy Agency writes one for every artist site it builds.

Does this work on Squarespace?

Yes. Both case studies on this page run on Squarespace, with structured data, llms.txt and release-day updates handled through page code and SEO settings.

What does AI search optimization cost?

Scope depends on the size of the catalogue and the site. Get a quote at davy.agency/quote or book a discovery call.

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Make your music easy to recommend.

Davy Agency is a full-stack music agency in Portland, Oregon: strategy, web design, photography, video, PR, paid social and in-house screen printing under one roof. AI search optimization is part of how every artist site gets built.

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