Keychange Presents Steps From Pledge to Action on Gender Balance
Today, Keychange the pioneering international initiative for gender equity in the music industry, shares an update on the progress of the Keychange Pledge and reveals its Pledge Action Plan outlining next steps. Featuring feedback...
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...
2019 UK Festival Awards – Applications are now open
The application process for the UK Festival Awards 2019 has now opened. The Awards will return to the Troxy in London on December 5th for a third consecutive year and promises to end the...
From Club Nights to the Festival – The Access Story.
Will Darley’s a few minutes late for our online meeting, a Safety Advisory Group(SAG) meeting had gone on a little longer than expected but it went well, which is not always the...
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...
Victorious – A Value Festival With Values
After growing out of its original site at Portsmouth’s naval dockyard, Victorious Festival is firmly anchored on Southsea’s seafront. We caught up with founder, James Ralls to chart the journey through growth, acquisition and...
Winner Profile: Ginger Owl
There's a lot of businesses out there in the world of live events that have been around for 10 years or more, so that wasn't the reason behind Ginger Owl founders Nancy Skipper and...
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: Altitude Comedy Festival
What does it take to win Best Overseas Festival at the UK Festival Awards? The simple answer is votes, not the most votes, it’s all about the proportion of your audience that feels like...
Looking at the bigger picture with event data
As festival season approaches, organisers, partners and sponsors are looking for new ways to measure the success of the festivalgoer experience and its effect on ROI. Caroline McGuckian, CEO of Meshh, discusses the importance...
