Restaurants, hotel managers and convenience stores prepare for festival season weeks beforehand, bringing on part-time employees, extending business hours and raising prices. WENTZ’S TOP SIX SECRETS FOR MUSIC LICENSING. 1. It’s time to find musical festival sponsors! For film festival rights, most songs can be cleared at around $500 per side ($500 for the publishers, $500 for the master). Keep in mind, the smaller and less well-known your festival is, the more outreach you’ll have to do to find sponsors.

Not only is this process instructive, but it will also enable you to talk knowledgeably about the financials of your project when convincing sponsors to take a chance on your event. Here is how much it could have cost to go to Glastonbury last year. Businesses are far less likely to invest in an unproven event than one that has a track record of success. Your offers and proposal are ready. Formulate a budget for your concert or tour, figure out exactly how much money you need and determine what you need it for.
If required, you can make minor adjustments later. Best practice is to budget at least 10% of the gross value of the sponsorship – including any in-kind – for servicing. Corporate sponsors play a significant role in the planning and execution of any community festival.For example, the Taste of Chicago 2019, a popular food festival in the Windy City, was sponsored by corporate partners such as DoorDash, Chicago Tribune, Pepsi, and Southwest Airlines. Even so, it’s not a huge expense – most organisers (58%) pay out no more than £500. If you don’t have enough money in your budget to pay for all the rights up front, you can clear only the film festival rights and add an option to get all media rights up to two years later. £250.75 including booking fees and delivery*. Print is an often overlooked cost, but most events will need things like programmes, menus, badges, signage, and branded goods. Know exactly how much money you need and why - and the answer is not, "as much as possible."

How much do festivals cost? Both the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals created 3,000 temporary jobs and brought $254 million into the Indio, California economy in 2012. Find Music Festival Sponsors. For this exercise, put your starting cost of servicing at 10% of the cost to deliver benefits plus the cost of sale, as it will grow appropriately as you multiply your baseline fee. Going completely digital, with all information contained within an event app, is one way to cut printing costs. Ticket. *You can split the £7.75 delivery cost between a few people if you order several tickets together. Transport The average cost of going to a music festival in 2018 is more than £400. A further 23% manage not to spend at all in this area.