Tyler is our resident party expert. He works with many of our major event planners to help them to throw sell-out events and does hands-on party research every Friday and Saturday night (and occasionally on Thursdays). His teammates describe him as "devilishly handsome" (we refrained from posting a picture for your protection), "a righteous dude," and "wrote the book on all that is social." Halloween party planning is in full swing and to help you prepare for a night free of horrors, here are some party planning tips from Tyler: 1. Tier your ticket pricing. Ramp up the ticket prices as the event approaches. This will incent people to buy tickets early ... Continue Reading

We've received more and more questions about Tweetups and have seen the number of Tweetups on Eventbrite skyrocket over the past few months. So we sat down with an expert, Joselin Mane from Boston Tweetup, to get the scoop (twips) on how to throw a successful Tweetup. For our readers who aren't familiar with the term, what is a Tweetup? Simply put, it’s an event that is primarily promoted on twitter, and allows people who have made connections through twitter to meet up and talk in person. The majority of Tweetups are primarily social and are simply meant to connect like-minded people or those who wouldn’t normally have a chance ... Continue Reading

You've been asking for this feature for a while and Facebook finally opened up their API so that we could deliver! Without further ado we are excited to bring you Eventbrite Events for your Facebook Fan Page! In the past we enabled you to publish events to your profile wall, but now you have the option to publish to your Fan Page and promote your events directly to your Facebook fans. Here's what it looks like: Let your fans discover your event through Facebook, and then with our integration they can connect back to Eventbrite to register for the event. You can see ... Continue Reading

Today we are excited to announce a new partnership with MailChimp to bring our event-holders more options for email marketing! Our integration provides the perfect may to manage your events and get the word out with personalized email invitations. MailChimp automatically imports your event details straight from your event and creates a customizable invitation template, allowing you to get the word out fast — no coding required. MailChimp tracks responses to your event invitations, and with their powerful segmentation tools you can target subscribers by zip code, gender and other metrics that you choose. MailChimp also shares our obsession with the power of social media tools - you can share your ... Continue Reading

Our friends at Events Finder have put together a great iPhone app that lets you search for and find Eventbrite and other events on the go! You can filter events by distance, time, category and location to discover events happening right around you. Look at the event detail page to get more details about the event, share with a friend, get map, and add to favorites. If it's an Eventbrite event you can click through and buy tickets to the event. Go forth, find events!

Last week I had the privilege of attending an event put on by event organizers for event organizers. The hosts were Sandbox Suites and San Francisco Entrepreneurs for Coworking Meetup. Sasha Vasilyuk, Meetup Organizer and the founder of Sandbox Suites, gathered event experts Edith Yeung of BizTechDay, Myles Weissleder of SF New Tech, and Cassie Phillipps of SNAP Summit’s FailCon -- all three are prominent figures in the bay area events world -- to provide an evening of valuable tips and advice for event-holders. Here are my top five takeaways from the panel discussion: 1. Know your audience. The first ... Continue Reading

We're very pleased to announce that we've redesigned Eventbrite tickets and made them much easier for attendees to print and bring with them on the day of your event. The new tickets can now be included with email confirmations at the option of the event organizer. They are provided in PDF format, for increased security, and can be included in your confirmation emails as either an attachment or a link. We've also improved the barcode for compatibility with a wider range of scanners. From your manage event page click on "Edit Order Confirmations". You are now presented with the options of including the ticket as a PDF attachment, as a link, ... Continue Reading

While for some Labor Day signals the end of summer, changing leaves, or back to school, for us here at Eventbrite it heralds the beginning of conference season and one of our busiest times of year. We anticipated increased growth, but we did not foresee the dramatic spike in activity that we experienced on Tuesday and Wednesday. As Twitter said, "It's not rocket science, but it's our work," and we couldn't agree more. While we experience some growing pains, we don't want you to feel a thing. We've taken the measures to ensure that our technology will scale as quickly as our business is growing (growing our operations team, adding additional servers, ... Continue Reading

We are stoked to announce a new partnership with Dimdim, the open source, browser-based web conferencing company. They just launched Dimdim Webinar, a browser-based offering for easy, affordable webinar hosting, and when combined with our ticketing and promotions platform, the solution is killer. Webinar hosts can now attract more attendees, register more listeners, and make more money with their webinars. TechCrunch thought it was pretty cool too. We recently did a webinar of our own, "Tapping the Power of Social Media for Event Promotion," and Dimdim won us over. Here are some of the reasons why we heart Dimdim so much: One-click attendance. We don't want you ... Continue Reading

AJA Video is a leading manufacturer of high-quality and cost-effective digital video interface, conversion and desktop solutions for the professional broadcast and post-production markets. This year they launched a new product, the Ki Pro at the National Association of Broadcasters Show and from there embarked on a 24 city global road-show, creating events to herald the new product launch. We had the chance to speak with Shea Byrnes who was responsible for these events.   What was the purpose of the roadshow? We wanted to launch the new product with a splash, and events are a great way to rally people around a product and generate buzz. The product we launched ... Continue Reading