eFestivals
The eFestivals website (21 June 2009) viewed in Mozilla Firefox
Type of site
Music festival listings and online community
Available inEnglish
OwnerNRG Internet Ltd
Created byNeil Greenway
URLhttp://www.efestivals.co.uk/
RegistrationOptional
Launched2000

eFestivals is a website listing music festivals; hosting information on line-ups, interviews, photographs and live reviews.[1]

The website boasts an active discussion board with over 225,000 registered users, [2] which now runs on a separate server from the main website due to its popularity. [3] A 'gold membership' is available for £18 per annum, which prevents third party websites from being displayed while using the site. [4]

In May 2019, eFestivals launched an appeal for donations to help cover the website's running costs and to secure the future of the website. [5]

History

The website was launched in 1998 as "The Original Glastonbury Website", and was adopted by Glastonbury Festival as the official website for the 1999 event.[6] In 2000, eFestivals was launched to cater for multiple festivals (over 200 were listed in 2006[7]), and has been cited as bringing attention to smaller-scale festivals.[8] in 2023 the company that owned efestivals (NRG Internet LTD ) and its assets was sold to PURE MATTER MEDIA GROUP LTD, and founder Neil ~Greenway ended his involvement of running the websites.

In 2007, sister website eGigs.co.uk was first registered, which mirrors the format of eFestivals but relates to individual gigs rather than festivals.

References

  1. ^ "The best travel websites: part two". The Daily Telegraph. 2009-04-27. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  2. ^ "Festival Forums". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  3. ^ "Website wishlist & problems". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  4. ^ "GOLD member (free of adverts)". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  5. ^ "Donations towards running costs". Festival Forums. Retrieved 2019-08-17.
  6. ^ "About eFestivals". eFestivals. 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  7. ^ Brown, Mark (2006-04-17). "Stiff competition for summer's hot tickets". Guardian Online. Guardian Media Group. Retrieved 2009-06-21.
  8. ^ Green, Thomas (2009-06-12). "The festivals that could be washed away by a summer of rain". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2009-06-21.

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