Curating Vendors for Family Festivals: Toys, Books, and Repairs
Curate vendors families love – from book and toy stalls to on-site repair stations – with veteran tips to vet for safety, fair pricing and placement.
Fresh from the Playbook
The latest strategies and tactics for ambitious promoters
Visa and Border Tips for Traditional Folk Festival Ensembles
Expert guide for festival producers on navigating music visas, customs, and border logistics for international ensembles and traditional folk performers.
Economic Impact Reports for Host Cities: Quantifying Room Nights, Hospitality Spend & Media Reach to Win Civic Support for Your Wine Festival
Learn how to prove your wine festival’s value to your host city by quantifying hotel stays, local spending, and media reach with an economic impact report.
Showcase: Literary Bazaars and Zine Festivals
Make your literary bazaar or zine festival thrive with real-world tips from veteran festival producers. Learn how to choose the right venue (plenty of tables, quiet corners), balance author readings with sales, and foster an indie publishing community.
Digital Inventory: Festival Apps, Maps, and Moments – Monetize in-app banners, push alerts, schedule pins, and AR scavenger hunts
Discover how to monetize festival apps, interactive maps, and AR moments. Learn best practices for integrating sponsor booths and push notifications to boost ROI.
Multi-Genre Festivals Without Chaos: Why Diversity Needs Boundaries
Learn how top festival producers manage diversity and crowd flow when lineups are distributed across several distinct performance platforms to prevent chaos.
Colour-Coding Festival Sites for Kids: A Guide to Stress-Free Family Navigation
Transform your festival into a wonderland for families with color-coded zones and kid-friendly mascots. Learn how assigning colors and fun characters to each area, matching wristbands to zones, and integrating this system into maps, apps, and signage creates stress-free navigation for kids. Discover real examples and expert tips to reduce lost children incidents and keep young festival-goers happy and secure.
Multi-City Expansion for Culinary Festival Brands: Scaling Food Festivals Without Losing Their Soul
Learn how to scale a food festival to multiple cities without losing its soul. Our playbook covers replicating your festival’s core magic, localizing menus and partners, venue and logistics tips, marketing strategies, budgeting, and more – with real examples from top culinary festivals worldwide.
Leather, Lasso, and Woodburning — Festival Workshops With Rules
Leatherwork and lasso workshops can be a highlight at country festivals—if they’re run safely. Discover how veteran festival organizers enforce PPE, tool check-ins, class size limits and more to keep these hands-on sessions safe and exciting.
Campus & School Outreach: Grow Tomorrow’s Film Festival Audience Today
Learn how film festivals and small cinemas can partner with local schools for educational screenings. Discover key considerations, logistics, and audience benefits.
Insurance for Family Festival Activities and Rides: Confirm Coverage for Inflatables, Animals, and Workshops
Learn how festival organizers manage liability for family activities, rides, and workshops. Discover tips for verifying vendor COIs and craft show proof of insurance.
Content Recaps & Evergreen Clips: Extending Your Wine Festival’s Life Online
Keep your wine festival’s buzz alive after the last pour – use tasting reels, winemaker interviews, and terroir explainers to engage wine lovers year-round.