Our apps include advanced features like:

• create you own calendar
• video associated with most events
• Facebook login
• see what shows friends are attending
• posting events to facebook and twitter
• Facebook "like" button: we're the first in the world to do this!!!
  
• event and location check-in which can optionally be posted to Facebook

For more on our mobile solution, please click here.

Elevator Pitch

A quick elevator pitch followed by a meeting a couple of weeks later and some late night phone calls and a deal was done. FaveQuest launched a beta version of the Social Video Calendar in 2009 as a drop in widget in the existing site. Tens of thousands of music fans used the advanced tools to watch over 226,000 videos and build and share their calendar with friends. We knew we were onto something.

Success Breeds Success

Bluesfest brought on FaveQuest on to design and rebuild their entire website, a Facebook app and an iPhone app. Traffic on the site grew by 30%, time on site went from a minute to over five minutes and with that also came a new sponsorship from the National Gallery of Canada (yes, a website can be a revenue generator instead of a cost center).

The Relationship Continues

We have also developed some very specialized tools for Bluesfest to help them manage their operations. For example, the FAB (FaveQuest Artist Booking) tool. With a multi-million dollar budget and hundreds of artists, tracking offers, contract details, contract status, riders, budget and so on can be very tricky to do with a spreadsheet. Ottawa Bluesfest now uses our FAB product to perform all artist bookings.

Another big nightmare for festival organizers is trying to track, keep up to date and allow necessary staff to access key contacts for all bands. Some bands have 8 or more people that need to be reached for various types of reasons. We built a specialized tool call FACT (FaveQuest Artist Contact Tracker) to solve this problem.

FUN FUN FUN!

During the festival, the two co-founders of FaveQuest, Allan Isfan & Bill Love, in addition to several others, become roving reporters interviewing fans, staff and even musicians. It comes with an access pass! A dream come true.

We truly <3 Bluesfest and will be forever grateful to Mark, Mike, AJ, Sarah, Tammy, Nathalie, Allison and the whole team for believing in us and giving us a shot that changed the entire course of our company.

The integration goes ever further:

• Fans can log in to our Social Video Calendar and Mobile apps with their Facebook credentials
• We embed many of the popular Facebook plugins like commenting and "like" buttons
• Our content management system can automatically create Facebook events through the Facebook API. This is absolutely HUGE for large festivals that simply can't manage the manual process
• We're working on some other very exciting Facebook elements but must keep them under wraps until we launch them for Just for Laughs this spring.

For more on our Facebook apps and integration, please click here.

Fans: Fans get to explore all your events, watch video, create a personal calendar they can share with friends on Facebook and twitter. This tool has been used by over 500,000 fans to explore festival events. We're pretty proud of that.

Embedabble: The coolest part?: we can optionally make available a simple code that anyone … from bloggers to major newspapers … can use to drop in your complete calendar into their site. More eyeballs for you at no extra cost.

Content Management System: Ok, we lied. The coolest part may actually be the pieces that fans don't see. We developed a custom Content Management System that alloys any of your staff to add events, videos, photos, bios and more with very little training. We're in the process of adding advanced analytics so you can see what's getting interested on your site way ahead of time.

API & Synch with mobile: All the event info and fan schedules are made available through a private API which we use to update our mobile apps on the fly. That allows the mobile apps to always be up to date and allows fans to access calendar they created in the social video calendar on your site. Very cool.

For more, click here.