Eventstagram Is Keeping Fit

Eventstagrammers, 

As most of you are well into the tough stage of your annual exercise push, we wanted to let you know about our exercise programme.

We struggle to run, we can't really cycle and, well, we have been warned that swimming is not good for our server. So we have spent January working on our flexibility.

Here are some of the things we have been doing to ensure we remain as flexible as Olga Korbut, not just in January, but all year round. 

Bulk Packages

We have begun to work with a number of Event Organisers, Bars, Nightclubs or other venues that require a regular live Instagram feed, to develop custom built packages to suit their requirements. We have a live 2 for 1 deal on our Silver package specifically for regular users, but if you need it more or less often get in contact and we can put together a bundle that lets you use the feed exactly when you need it! 

Custom Designed Templates

We have been working with organisations and individuals of all sizes to develop custom designed Eventstagram slideshows. These range from minor adaptations to full white label designs. We work directly with each customer and can produce solutions to match most budgets. If you’re interested get in finding out more, get in contact on info@eventstagr.am or on our site.




Extra Features

Think there is something we are missing? Want to amalgamate some of our packages together? No worries, get in contact and one of the team will try and help you with information on what we have on offer, what's to come and what we can do for you now to satisfy your requirements.

We hope to hear from you soon, but in the meantime we hope you have fun creating some great live Eventstagram slideshows,

Happy Instagramming,

The Eventstagram Team

- info@eventstagr.am
- http://eventstagr.am

Eventstagram - The Event Trend of 2013

As we enter the second week of January almost every Event guru out there has posted their annual New Years blog.

This year we have seen a flurry of ‘Top Tens to Watch’, ‘Ten Things That Will Make Your 2013 Better’ and ‘Event Trends For 2013’ that have focussed on the need for event professionals to become aware and make use of new event technology. 

We have highlighted some of the most important, and given some tips on how you can use Eventstagram’s live Instagram shows to ensure your event doesn't miss out on this years biggest trend:

‘10 Event Trends for 2013’ by Julius Solaris

2. Curation and Display

“Event professionals are now in charge to display a curated feed of the user generated media developed during the event. It is not acceptable to present fragmented streams of pictures, tweets, videos and blog posts. “

'5 Event Industry Trends for 2013' by Live Recruitment

#2 Social media will be essential for events

“Social media offers the opportunity to engage with larger audiences.......having a proper strategy for using social media before, during and after your event will be increasingly important”

#3 Growth in mobile usage at events

“We know that where people go, their mobile devices follow.....So, one event industry trend is likely to be the increasing growth of mobile at event.”

2013 Predictions for Corporate Event Planning by David Thomas

Social media will play a growing role

"....social media will continue to exert a growing influence over our events......this trend is a Godsend, offering an inexpensive way to encourage interaction between attendees both before, during and after meetings (and broaden the content offered in the meetings themselves)”

‘What the great events will be doing in 2013’ by Julius Solaris

5. Conferences where attendees have the opportunity to be “participants”.

“If you are planning to attend an event and you haven’t had the opportunity to influence the programme or even better, the opportunity to directly contribute, then do consider avoiding the event.”

6. Social Media playing a much more active role in the event. 

“Events and social media is a marriage made in heaven. Organisers should encourage engagement from all the stakeholders as social media can add value to everyone.”

Five Trends To Watch by Jeff Hurt

1. The Participation Economy

“Conference attendees don’t want to spend $1,500 – $2,000 to attend your event and then sit passively for four to six hours a day. They want to engage with others about the content that is being shared or about the needs they face.....they (conferences) should move to becoming a social channel engaging the audience in discussion about that application of that content.”

2. Social Sharing

“Regardless of what you think, it is not a fad. It is a sociological phenomenon that continues to occur at a rapid pace. This macro trend is affecting conferences and events. Conference attendees will continue to share what they are doing at your event and who they are doing it with. Some will share content. Some will challenge what they hear from the stage. If your event is bland, little social sharing will occur and this actually reflects a poor conference experience.”

4. The Smobile Web

“Social + Mobile = Smobile. Social and mobile are becoming more dependent upon each other. A smobile web means that your attendees expect the conference experience to be digitized for mobile and sharing. Instagram and NFC (near field communication technology) are two examples of experiences prepared for the smobile web.”



Eventstagram is the perfect solution to ensure your event matches these trends in 2013.

Firstly, using Eventstagram will encourage attendees at your event to share Instagram images under your hashtag to their friends and followers. Our web software displays a live feed of all the Instagram images tagged under your hashtag meaning that guests are encouraged to share photos of the event with the opportunity to get their face onto the live screen.


Photo By @beachmokey

If more encouragement is required event organisers can stage photo competitions with Eventstagram. This further adds to the reward for users to send in images, and of course encourages more content to be shared across social media.

Secondly using Eventstagram can provide events with an interactive, live, and stunning looking display for backdrop to their event. The focus for 2013 has to be on live content and by using photos rather than words, Eventstagram users get the best of all worlds - a live display that is user generated and looks fantastic.

New Years Eve - Eventstagram Style

For most people the culmination of the year is a relatively brief few hours consisting of a concoction of alcohol, a cocktail of gunpowder explosives and some haphazard ‘friends making’.  For the team at eventstagram the night was different. It was not so brief, a lot little less drinking and completely void of explosives.

We celebrated a number of midnight moments, stretching over 20 hours, through numerous countries and in an array of languages, watching them all happen in live Instagram feeds.

The first Instagram photos began to appear in Eventstagram HQ, London, at 10am GMT. These weren’t typically British early starters; they were in fact eventstagram parties from Beijing, China.

Eventstagram Eastside

The celebrations at VFC watchnight included Gangnam Style impressionists, live music and what looked like some fantastic tasting food! Under the hashtag #vfcwatchnite2012, 226 Instagram photos were tagged and streamed to the live screen at the front of the stage:

@teemoty@hozhijie                                                                                                                                                              

'Notion Technologies Take The Instagram Baton'

As the night progressed we saw the year turn in India, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Russia before arriving in Europe for some of our biggest events of the evening.

Notion Technologies, eventstagrams exclusive partner in Benelux, sponsored the Instagram wall at the two leading NYE events in Flanders.

The “Millennium Night” was undoubtedly the most complete party in Antwerp. As friends and family dined together, the fireworks display from the shore and the enthusiastic celebrations at the beautiful location of Hangar 29 were the perfect forefront to our Instagram slideshow. The large screen was centrally positioned and created many humorous Instagram photos in real time. Amongst the 1000 attendees, we saw over 250 images taken from the Instagram on smartphones, and shared with the world.

@dimitrivanbuggenhout

50 km from Antwerp, the uNyghted NYE party had moved into "eskimofabriek" in Ghent. There were more than 1,500 young dance enthusiasts celebrating the evening. As guests arrived at the entrance hall, the pictures that were taken from the two rooms, and shared on Instagram, were shown on the live screen.

 @davidoff77

As the curtain closed on 2012 in mainland Europe it was time for London to pop open the champagne and Instagram their live photos to the rest of the guests, their friends and followers, and us in eventstagram HQ.

One of our favourite UK celebrations was a small house party in the North of England. Friends and family gathered together with drinks, pizza and most importantly lots of smiles. With eventstagram hosting the live Instagram slideshow on the TV, it provided a perfect backdrop to their small but raucous evening and some great entertainment for us!

 @patrickbernstein

The midnight moment continued travelling West, and as night became early morning in the UK, live Instagram walls began to appear across South and Central America. That brought us to one of our standout events from the whole festive period. For the graphic design company SEDSO design in Philadelphia, we began developing the customised template for the live feed weeks in advance of New Year’s Eve. We established a beautiful looking design that interchanged between two different instruction slides and of course user generated Instagram photos on the SEDSO background.

The slideshow was an amazing success and we saw over 300 photos tagged during the course of the celebrations.

             

@natalieparks

                                                                                                                          

      

@chris_mcelroy     

As the sounds of champagne corks popping, turned into sounds of red bull cans fizzing, the final Instagram image was tagged in Samoa, 11 hours ahead of GMT.

For the eventstagram team we saw the whole spectrum of New Year’s Eve. From small house parties, to huge nightclubs and public events we were fascinated by watching fans of our product show their friends and followers how they celebrated the end of 2012.

The World Of Event Technology

From tiny private weddings to humongous world recognised music festivals, and life changing first world product launches, the world of events is the host to a vast array of characters, classes and culture. The industry spans the whole globe. From Montreal to Madagascar there are event planners frantically organising their last minute preparations in a not so different way to how you organise yours. 

So we thought it would only be right to bring together some of the best new event technology emerging from across globe:

UK - EVENTSTAGRAM

Eventstagram is one of the latest tech event start up's to come from the UK's capital, London.

eventstagram is a live Instagram slideshow for all types of events. The web application draws  Instagram photos from an events crowd under a pre defined hashtag and brings them live to a big screen.

A live Instagram slideshow is perfect for events of all sizes, from weddings to use as a way to group all their guests photos, to a music festival using it to promote their event on social media.

INDIA - EVENT NU

eventNu is one of India's most advanced tech companies. It's an online service which allows event organisers to publish, promote and sell their event tickets online. 

Its very easy to use and gives event organizers an immediate professional presence, spiced with social media integration, survey tools and premium level support. 

With a recent review on Microsofts blog, they are becoming well renowned for bringing advanced tech to India.

FRANCE - WISEMBLY

Wisembly is a fantastic tool for meetings, conferences and
interactive events. Users can easily answer questions, participate in surveys and discuss topics with the organisers directly from their phone.

It started as a mini social network for a geolocation, and it hasn't moved to far away from that. It's now a mini social network for an event! 

Eventstagram just got a whole lot easier....

Eventstagrammers, 

Today is a good day to be an eventstagr.am fan. Wehave launched some brand new updates to the way we work, and more importantlywe have made it cheaperand easier for you to benefit from our live Instagramslideshows.

One of eventstagrams core ideals was to offer our basic Instagram slideshows for free.In our last update we introduced our credit system, and whilst we ensured westill had a free slideshow on offer we noticed we made it far too complicatedfor you to access this.

So, here is what we have done:

Bronze Package

This is now zero credits, zero dollars, zero pounds, zero Rai Stones or in any other currency – completely free. Notonly that but we have increased the runtime to 6 hours, and the maximumphotos to 500!
 

Silver Package

To reflect the changes in the Bronze Package we have also reduced the price forour Silver package. It’snow 50 credits, and we are still providing the ban moderation feature,removing our freeeventstagram logo and allowing up to 1000 photos to be tagged.

Bundles

If you’re an event manager, or just a regular party host, we have made itbetter value for you to purchase ‘bundles’ of events. It’s now $100 for 150 credits(equivalent to 3 Silver events).

Trials 

We have made some significant changes to the site to make it easier to create,preview and trial events before purchasing. By clicking the start button next to thepackage name you can enter any event details, preview the slideshow settingsand play it as much as you want with an eventstagram watermark. Once you are ready to purchase, or start the countdown, you can simply redeem your creditsand have the watermark removed!
 
We hope you agree these changes are a big step forward and make eventstagrammuch easier to use and much more accessible for events of all sizes.
 
If you have any questions, any ideas for future developments or any requestsfor some of our higher priced packages please let us know on info@eventstagr.am orthrough our twitter account @eventstagram.
 
Thanks for your support,
 
The Eventstagram Team

Eventstagram Takeover At Clockenflap Festival, Hong Kong

The Event

Localiiz, one of Hong Kongs largest digital marketing teams, approached us to create a customised Instagram slideshow for the esteemed Clockenflap festival.

The massive music, arts and film festival played host to a number of prestigious artists from all over the world, some of the musical headliners including  Primal Scream, De La Soul and Azealia Banks. 

With the event lasting 48 hours, the digital marketing team were desperate for the option to only display Instagram photos tagged within the last X hours rather than for the whole event. Based on this request, and also the fact we thought it was a pretty cool feature, we developed this functionality and launched it just in time for the event. (It's now live for you all to see when you create a silver package here) 

There were over 6,600 photos tagged under the #Clockenflap hashtag and displayed on the live Instagram feed, providing an incredibly impactful message across social media for the Clockenflap brand. 

The Slideshow 

The live Instagram slideshow, powered by eventstagr.am, was a small adaption to our standard theme, with the removal of the eventstagram logo and the addition of the Localiiz logo on the photo page.

The photos were displayed in real time on a huge screen, with the amazing backdrop of Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District.

Photo by @vikkip

Photo by @dannythegreek

The Instagram Photos

Here are some of our favourite Instagram photos taken during the evening:

Photo by @lisak_0116

Photo by @lazycandy

Photo by @dinohongkong

Photo by @chasucks

Christmas Parties: How Can Technology Make Your Venue The Place To Be

As the start of December hurtles past us at an alarming rate, it's inevitable that Christmas parties, inadvertent nights out and festive gatherings become more the normal protocol for the working week.

With this in mind it is crucial that bars, restaurants and nightclubs make sure they maximise the potential of their venue during this period. Here are a few techy ways how:

1. Live Social Media Feeds

We firmly believe the best way to interact with your customers is to have a interactive media feed, and more importantly than that we know photos are the most fun, interesting and simple way to do this. 

A live Instagram slideshow from eventstagram is a quick and easy way to get your customers photos streamed in real time to your big screen. In addition it gives you a credible social media output, with every Instagram photo taken shared with each customers network of friends and followers, encouraging even more unplanned nights out to your venue. 

2. Manage Your Tickets

Tech should not just stop at front of house activities such as the live Instagram slideshows mentioned previously. Running your back of house with well organised technology will not only increase efficiency but can also lead to a more integrating marketing opportunity. Nu tickets is a fantastic way of combining ticket sales, social media promotions, gate receipts and footfall analysis in one nifty product.

Even better and unlike other systems Nu tickets does not hold any of your money. All revenue from ticket sales is paid directly to your on line payment account.

3. Manage Your Promotions

This new technology is the perfect companion to your exclusive venue. Throughout the year handling promoter payments, organising tables and creating guest lists are the thorn in the side of any nightclub owner, but through the busiest month of the year there aren't many owners that wouldn't describe this as chaos. With nightpro there is a simple interface where you can manage all the promotional aspects of your venue in one easy to use dashboard. You can get started in less than 1 minute, and most features are available for free!