The Gate: History, How To Use, And The Top 9 Fan Gates

Depending on how long you’ve been working as a musician, you may already be familiar with Download Gates and Fan Gates in general. Years ago it became common practice to install a 3^rd party tab to your Facebook artist page and offer an incentive to new fans for following. For example, you would see a tab that says Free Download, and once clicked, if you weren’t already following the page, you would be prompted to follow it for a track or album as a free download in exchange. Over time, Facebook did away with allowing 3^rdparty plugins to use their API in that manner, so it left a void that needed to be filled.

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