The music industry has digitalised over the years, shifting towards streaming, social media, and apps. During the COVID-19 pandemic, these tools proved to be essential for connecting with fan communities and keeping businesses afloat; especially in the heavily-impacted festival industry. As live events will finally start to make a comeback, optimizing online communication efforts and costs will be crucial – and apps will be a vital part of that. In 2019 and 2020, music research and analytics platform Viberate carried out a series of surveys and in-depth interviews among 30,000 festivalgoers and festival organizers, asking about their festival expectations and…
Author: Andy Lenthall
Event Genius has begun to make inroads into the Australian festival market with some of the country’s most revered and established music festivals putting pen to paper making the Festicket owned end-to-end ticketing, cashless and event management platform, their primary ticketing partner. Combining social responsibility, sustainability and wellness with a broad and unique lineup of electronic music, Lost Paradise (Glenworth Valley, Sydney) has found itself at the forefront of the Australian festival scene for the past six years and 2021 will see the event kick start a multi-year deal with Event Genius. Two more of Australia’s most loved music festival…
Some of Europe’s most revered and established clubbing events, festivals and venues have put pen to paper to make Event Genius their primary ticketing and event technology partner. The legendary Ibiza superclub Amnesia has joined the Event Genius roster and will utilise the platform’s egTicketing, egMarketing and egTravel solutions for their 2021 season of events and beyond. Amnesia represents one of the island’s true great venues with a rich history going back to the 1980s. Originally famed for open-air events, sunrises on the terrace and island everpresent DJ Alfredo, the club is now home to the likes of Jamie Jones’ Paradise,…
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The best European festivals, artists and promoters of 2010 were revealed at a sold out ceremony which took place at Groningen’s Stadsschouwburg in The Netherlands, on the opening night of the 25th Anniversary edition of Eurosonic Noorderslag. Decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries, Festival Awards Europe is the only event solely dedicated to recognising the contributions and achievements of the event organisers and performing artists that generate billions of Euros for local economies and brighten up the summer for tens of millions of festival-goers each year. More than 350,000 votes were cast by fans to decide…