Another Sellout Festival.... (another Ticketfly event?)

[Truslack]

Does THIS look familiar to you?

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/new ... -sold-out/

(look at the pictures of the queue)


I did not try to get tickets this year, but the discussions regarding ticket queuing sounded very familiar. I wonder if this was another Ticketfly event?

[Aurelia]

Yes
I really would enjoy "old" chella
but I am coming to the playa
and I should be in touch with new
I got the old stored forever
xoA.

[trilobyte]

I've given this a nudge over to tickets discussion, since I think that's a better fit for discussions about tickets & ticketing. I also changed the subject to replace big commercial festival name with something more general..

That said, it may surprise you to know that festivals and events have been becoming increasingly popular. Other annual festivals have been selling out for much longer than Burning Man, and the pace seems to actually be increasing. When Coachella added a 2nd weekend to their shindig in Indio, they actually sold both weekends out in less time than they had previously sold out a single weekend. This is regardless of promoter, and regardless of ticketing provider that the event organizers used. It's also worth pointing out that just about every single time an event sells out quickly, there are complaints about servers, queues, waiting rooms, etc.

It is also worth mentioning that a lot of ticketing providers use similar designs for their queue systems and transaction engines. This probably has less to do with wanting to play copycat, and more to do with ease-of-use for customers. If every single place that sold tickets had different graphics and visuals for the same processes, they would experience many more support issues and requests. Since they want to minimize that, they stick to either familiar or immediately identifiable symbols and icons. I think the progress bar and moving figure were probably being used by various ticketing companies before Ticketfly was even founded in 2008. I know that when Burning Man started using them a couple years ago, their user experience was instantly familiar to me from having seen it dozens of times with other firms.

The high (and rapidly growing) demand for festivals is kind of fascinating to me. There was a great article I'd read a few months ago that talked about how we as a society are shifting away from a material culture and more towards an experiential one, I wish I could find a link to it offhand. It was a great piece, and kind of explained how more and more, people are less interested in accumulating wealth and possessions and more interested in accumulating experiences (bucket lists, adventure tourism, and the festival boom).

[Aurelia]

Add VR and AI
We all are growing
xoA.