This year Summer Sundae’s Weekender has gone paper free, after a deal with tixmob to distribute the tickets for the event electronically.

Festival goers will now receive an email and a text to confirm the booking which will contain a barcode that can be scanned at the gate, hopefully reducing the fraud and ticket touting at the event. Read more »

UK festival fan website Virtual Festivals has teamed up with mobile ticketing experts Tixmob to offer free specialist marketing services to a handpicked number of small and medium-sized festivals.

The partnership aims to offer email, mobile and ‘short code’ SMS marketing services to a selection of 20 events via Virtual Festivals’ ready-made customer base of 2.2 million unique users and its database of 100,000 subscribers. Read more »

An effective new method of festival marketing is to be pioneered under an agreement recently announced by tixmob, the festival ticketing specialists, and Virtual Festivals.com, the UK’s largest online community of festival-goers. Read more »