A high download rate will also give your marketing/sponsors teams that extra piece of leverage when negotiating or closing better deals.
Here are the 3 success factors:
🎖 Consistency in promotion of the app before the event
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Add a promo image for downloads on your website (frontpage)
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Make consistent promo on social media about the app
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Explain the benefits of the app (create video content)
Sziget Festival 2023 website (separate page)
Solar Weekend 2022 website
🎖 Add (exclusive) content in your app
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Announce content (artists, tickets, ...) earlier in the app than on other channels
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Make content pieces like interviews, competitions, surveys only accessible from within the app
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Link your Instagram account to the CMS so there a constant stream of new updates within the feed
Harmony of Hardcore 2025
Pukkelpop 2022
🎖 Keep doing promo at the festival grounds
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Make signing to promote downloads (with QR code linked to App Stores) at the entrances, campings, info points, ...
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Activate that 'Word of Mouth' by sending relevant pushes. "Hey, why don't I know this? - I don't know, I've got this from the app."
Tomorrowland Summer 2019 & Graspop Metal Meeting 2018