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So here's my dilemma - applied for press passes, but don't want to wait months to find out if we've got them or not and then risk the possibility of not being able to even buy tickets then due to sellout.
Anyone know if they let you know earlier about press passes if you apply super early? Or what the likelihood that a small live music website (600 or so unique visitors/month) in the Midwest will be granted tickets/media passes to cover the event? I'm guessing highly unlikely, but you never know...
Post by setyoufree on Feb 20, 2011 15:50:50 GMT -5
nope, you wont know for sure until may, no matter when you apply. there is a chance you will get it, but if you really want to go, get a ticket and sell it if you get through
applying early matters only in the sense that they will get back to you quicker (But that will still be in late april or early may)
I would buy a ticket, this year is gonna be hard for press passes simply because of it being the 10th year anniversary. I work with a blog that gets about 20 to 30k unique vistors and i am still worried about my press pass.
Post by pondo ROCKS on Feb 22, 2011 9:02:59 GMT -5
The dilemma about press passes is just that...I help write for a local Community College newspaper and I would love to cover it with one of the Journalism students but will not no anything until May as well.
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They released the Press App almost a month early this year, they're on the ball. I'm sure they're expecting an abundance of apps. I can say that I've never had a problem with the process and it has worked out for me the last two years.
Good luck all, I'll be sure to let you know of any news I receive! Cheers
So here's my dilemma - applied for press passes, but don't want to wait months to find out if we've got them or not and then risk the possibility of not being able to even buy tickets then due to sellout.
Anyone know if they let you know earlier about press passes if you apply super early? Or what the likelihood that a small live music website (600 or so unique visitors/month) in the Midwest will be granted tickets/media passes to cover the event? I'm guessing highly unlikely, but you never know...
Unique viewership for Photos Passes has to exceed 100,000 hits a month, and it is required that you supply proof.
I'm sure a website isn't as high, but still more significant than 600? But give it a shot, you never know! Good luck!
Post by gryphonkin on Feb 26, 2011 21:31:17 GMT -5
Got my application in and my editor has sent the assignment letter to Big Hassle. My editor was told that demand was high enough this year that they likely wouldn't be able to honor any +1 requests so if any of you have buddies depending on you for a free ticket, they may want to plan otherwise.
Unless they address a better way to distribute the press passes this year, the whole process is a joke. There's no way I am waiting until business hours on Thursday to get that pass and put myself in position to wait 8+ hours to get in the fest.
Got my application in and my editor has sent the assignment letter to Big Hassle. My editor was told that demand was high enough this year that they likely wouldn't be able to honor any +1 requests so if any of you have buddies depending on you for a free ticket, they may want to plan otherwise.
What size publication do you work for, and how many years have you covered the festival?
So here's my dilemma - applied for press passes, but don't want to wait months to find out if we've got them or not and then risk the possibility of not being able to even buy tickets then due to sellout.
Anyone know if they let you know earlier about press passes if you apply super early? Or what the likelihood that a small live music website (600 or so unique visitors/month) in the Midwest will be granted tickets/media passes to cover the event? I'm guessing highly unlikely, but you never know...
I would probably lean in the direction you're going. Grapeviney rumorage has it that there was a small art and music website in New England that pissed off a few of the mucky-mucks and local authorities after last year. With even more apps for the 10th anniversary, expect independent web-based publications to be at the bottom of the food chain.
I used to cover Roo for a decent sized website....one year we got tickets and press passes...one year we got press passes but had to buy our own tickets....then in 09 we were told that no websites without a print edition would be granted passes. Oh and we were never given photo passes.
yeah i thought your media pass acted as your ticket atleast that was my understanding last year when I had my media wristband........ but i also had a staff wristband (i volunteered just in case I didnt get in as press)
How did you get media passes without tickets? Media wristbands are tickets.
Maybe that is the case now....as I said, it's been a few years....but back in 07/08 your media pass was NOT your ticket....we had two separate wristbands both years. Seems to be the consensus that this has changed...I wouldn't know.
How did you get media passes without tickets? Media wristbands are tickets.
Maybe that is the case now....as I said, it's been a few years....but back in 07/08 your media pass was NOT your ticket....we had two separate wristbands both years. Seems to be the consensus that this has changed...I wouldn't know.
I covered 07 and 08...in those years they gave you both a wristband AND a comp ticket.....as long as you had ANOTHER ticket (VIP or GA) WITH the wristband you could get in WITHOUT the comp ticket. If you did NOT have another ticket other than the comp ticket....that was it. It took BOTH a ticket AND a wristband to get in those years....I went VIP in 08 and was able to give my comp ticket away that was the press ticket....in 07 I also bought a ticket and then got a comp ticket as press and was able to sell my regular ticket and just get in on the comp. This year it looks as if they are only doing wristbands and not tickets so will be harder to do something like that....