There was a lot of news this past week. Here are some stories that caught our eyes. A Pre-history of the Electronic Music Festival —Resident Advisor “The international festival circuit is booming, but little is known about the decades of evolution that got us here. In his latest

Let’s talk about Taylor Swift and her insight about the fan experience. Swift’s viewpoint is credible—she is one of the music industry’s most popular acts (her recent Red Tour grossed more than $150 million)—so the Wall Street Journal published an article by her abou

Apple is aggressively focusing on indoor cartography in order to compete with Google’s venue mapping efforts. And it appears that Apple is ahead of Google, because of the iBeacon technology that it has been planting in venues for some time. “iBeacons don’t specifical

I recently attended a lecture at a performing arts center. The seats were great. The sound was great. The presentation was great. Everything was great, except for the eager usher who emphatically told patrons not to take photos with their mobile phones. A phone would go up, and the us

Rival fans at San Siro Stadium in Milan were greeted with a unique vending experience that required them to send a bottle of Coca-Cola to an opposing fan: More about the campaign via AdWeek.