eFestivals

eFestivals is a website listing music festivals; hosting information on line-ups, interviews, photographs and live reviews.[1]

eFestivals
The eFestivals website (21 June 2009) viewed in Mozilla Firefox
Type of site
Music festival listings and online community
Available inEnglish
OwnerNRG Internet Ltd
Created byNeil Greenway
URLhttp://www.efestivals.co.uk/
RegistrationOptional
Launched2000

The website boasts an active discussion board with over 225,000 registered users, [2] which now runs on a separate server from the main website due to its popularity. [3] A 'gold membership' is available for £18 per annum, which prevents third party websites from being displayed while using the site. [4]

In May 2019, eFestivals launched an appeal for donations to help cover the website's running costs and to secure the future of the website. [5] The fundraising target totalled £42,000 per annum.

History

The website was launched in 1998 as "The Original Glastonbury Website", and was adopted by Glastonbury Festival as the official website for the 1999 event.[6] In 2000, eFestivals was launched to cater for multiple festivals (over 200 were listed in 2006[7]), and has been cited as bringing attention to smaller-scale festivals.[8]

In 2007, sister website eGigs.co.uk was first registered, which mirrors the format of eFestivals but relates to individual gigs rather than festivals.

References
  1. "The best travel websites: part two". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  2. "Festival Forums". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  3. "Website wishlist & problems". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  4. "GOLD member (free of adverts)". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  5. "Donations towards running costs". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  6. "About eFestivals". eFestivals. 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  7. Brown, Mark (2006-04-17). "Stiff competition for summer's hot tickets". Guardian Online. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  8. Green, Thomas (2009-06-12). "The festivals that could be washed away by a summer of rain". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-06-21.


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