EXIT Partners with NFT-TiX for Multi-Year Collaboration After UK Festival Awards Innovation Win
After receiving an award for Best Innovation at the U.K Festival Awards, EXIT has entered into a multi-year collaboration with ticketing platform NFT-TiX for its upcoming festivals and events. Last July, EXIT, a multiple...
Togather. Gathering festivals and suppliers together.
Togather, the conflation of the words gather and together is one of those names that you probably wish you’d thought of when considering company nomenclature for the festival industry. It took founders Digby Vollrath...
LIVE calls on Government to keep its promise on insurance
LIVE is calling on the UK Government to keep the promise it has made on delivering a COVID insurance scheme, and ensure live music is able to bounce back to its former glory.
Due to...
Towards Zero Waste Report Launched by Vision 2025
Responding to common challenges identified by outdoor event organisers around waste management and reduction, Resource Futures, a national waste and resources consultancy, was commissioned in 2022 by Vision: 2025 and Julie’s Bicycle to produce...
Increasing Ticket Sales by Reducing Online Ad Spend
Steve Jenner, TagMix’s Director of Festivals, posits that the universal reliance on paid online advertising is a relic that's costing events more than it's saving. He points to a pioneering wave of marketers who...
IFF Programme Complete
First major international music business event in 18 months
The full schedule for the 2021 edition of the InternationalFestival Forum (IFF) is now complete, with the majority of the...
We Invented the Weekend – Bold Claim and New Festival for Salford.
We Invented the Weekend, a brand new festival, based in Salford, with a bold claim within its name and, as co-founder Wayne Hemingway MBE points out “If you're going to claim that a place...
Winner Profile: Midnight Mango
Nurturing the live careers of acts is a role that is crucial to delivering a constant stream of quality line-ups for our festival market. We figured that two-time winners of the Festivals’ Favourite Agency...
Vision: 2025 launch the 2021 Event Industry Green Survey
The annual Event Industry Green Survey is now live, launched by the Vision: 2025 industry climate action group in partnership with the Association of Festival Organisers’ (AFO) and the Association of Independent...
DHP Family and Beat the Streets, Fighting Homelessness.
On Thursday, March 30 a legend in the Nottingham live music scene, George Akins Snr, passed away, aged 94. A prominent businessman and property developer, his many achievements included founding Rock City in 1980,...
