Is Now a Good Time to Go Into Events? Redevelopment of the Temporary Staffing...
It came as no surprise that after the pandemic, the events industry had to rethink its structure. With financial losses, changes in demand and lack of opportunity, many temporary event staff retrained in another...
How to Improve the Fan Experience Through Smart Corporate Branding
Antonio Valero is the Head of New Business Models at StubHub, one of the world's largest ticketing marketplaces. In addition to its work with venues, sports rights holders and promoters, StubHub has also partnered...
Five Steps to Make Your Festival More Accessible
Paul Hawkins is the Festival Project Manager for Attitude is Everything, a charity that works with audiences, artists and the live events industry to improve access to live music for deaf and disabled customers....
The Secret to Cutting Queues at Festivals
Nick Hucker is CEO of Preoday, a role he has fulfilled for over a year after initially joining the company as Head of Business Development in September 2017. Prior to joining Preoday, Nick was...
Mixed Reality & Game Engines: Why you should be using this technology for your...
Mitchell Bayer-Goldman is Co-founder and COO of Volta XR, here he he discusses how performances can be enhanced by the application of existing technology.
Festival goers expectations are higher...
Taking Live Mobile Marketing and VR Performances to a New Level
George Kapellos is Head of Marketing & Partnerships at Mativision, a Shoreditch based company that provides brands and entertainment businesses with the ability to film and broadcast in full 360˚ vision and virtual reality....
How to Make Your Campsites more Hospitable
Reece Miller is the Director of We Are FSTVL, the UK Festival Award-winning dance festival which has just added camping for its fastest selling year to date. Here he discusses how to make your...
The European Festival Market Report 2017
Festival Insights and the Festival Awards are proud to release the European Festival Market Report 2017, an in-depth examination of consumer demographics, preferences and behaviour based on research undertaken during October 2016. The insights...
Five Things You Need To Know When Hiring Event Staff
Paul Campbell is the founder and director of the Purple Patch Group, a business that started life as an event agency in London over 10 years ago.
If you’re operating as an event agency...
10 Ways AI will Revolutionise the Music Festival Industry
Festival Awards co-founder Steve Jenner has led festivals through several game-changing technological shifts over the years, from bringing the internet to Glastonbury in the late 1990s to seeding the integral online community of Download...
