# Announcements
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/promote-grow/announcements

Admin- and organisation-managed broadcasts. Banner announcements with audience targeting (platform, all orgs, one org, one team, one user), links to platform pages and external sites, optional push/email delivery, and optional calendar-event dates that put important industry deadlines on the audience's calendars.
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## What it is [#what-it-is]

Announcements are short broadcasts shown as a banner in the app header. Aden
admins can announce platform-wide; organisation admins can announce to their
own organisation, one of its artist teams, or a single person.

An announcement can also carry an **event date**: think "Grammy online entry
opens", "DJ Mag Top 100 voting closes", or a festival application window. When
it does, the date lands directly on the **calendar of everyone in the
audience**, so nobody misses an important industry deadline:

* **Everyone (platform)**: every user's calendar.
* **An organisation**: the org's members *and* every member of the artist
  teams the org manages.
* **One team**: that team's calendar.
* **One user**: that person's personal calendar.

## Using it [#using-it]

1. Open **Announcements** (admins: `/admin/announcements`; organisation
   admins: your org's **Announcements** page).
2. Create an announcement, pick the audience, and tick **Add to calendars**.
3. Choose the event date, an optional end date (for windows like a submission
   period), and a category. Award, submission deadline, voting, festival,
   conference, chart, or release.
4. Save. The date appears on the audience's Aden calendars as an all-day
   entry, with a link for more info. Teams that sync their Aden calendar to
   Apple/Google/Outlook get the date there too.

Deactivating the announcement (or unticking **Add to calendars**) removes the
entry from calendars again.

## Links [#links]

An announcement can point people somewhere, both at a page inside Aden and at
anything on the web.

* **Button link**: the destination of the button under the announcement. Type
  an in-app path (`/app/tracks`) or a full URL, or hit **Pages** to search the
  platform's pages and pick one.
* **Links inside the message**: hit **Add link** above the message, write the
  words the reader clicks, and pick the destination. Bare URLs you paste into
  the message are linked automatically.

Aden pages open in the app; anything external opens in a new tab, so nobody
loses the page they were on. Destinations Aden can't open (anything that isn't
an in-app path, `http(s)`, `mailto:` or `tel:`) are refused on the button and
stay plain text in the message.

Two extra controls keep things tidy:

* **Show as banner**: untick it for calendar-only dates that shouldn't take
  over every dashboard. The announcement then never shows as a header banner;
  it only lives on calendars (and in any push/email you send).
* On the calendar, **Important dates** is its own filter toggle. Like Music,
  Albums, and Posts, anyone can hide or solo them from the calendar legend.