# FestivalForge, full site content > Full-cycle film festival operations. One accountable operating partner for ticketing, streaming, paid acquisition, email, analytics and attendee support. Website: https://festivalforge.com Short version: https://festivalforge.com/llms.txt --- ## Homepage ### Positioning line FULL-CYCLE FILM FESTIVAL OPERATIONS ### Headline We run your entire festival. Marketing cannot fix a fragmented attendee journey. FestivalForge brings your platform, ticketing, streaming, paid acquisition, email, analytics and audience operations under one accountable partner, from initial build through final reporting. You keep the vision. We run the machinery. Primary calls to action: Apply to Work With FestivalForge. See What We Run. ### The problem is not tools. It is ownership. When ticketing, streaming, acquisition, analytics and attendee support live across separate vendors, no one owns the complete journey. Data is lost between systems, conversion problems go uncorrected and every festival cycle starts from scratch. Fragmented (seven logins, no shared data, no one owns the journey): - Ticketing platform - Streaming platform - Ad accounts - Email tool - Filmmaker spreadsheets - Website and forms - Attendee support inbox One operation: - Ticketing and conversion - Streaming and access control - Paid acquisition and attribution - Lifecycle email and retention - Festival site and film pages - Analytics and attendee support ### What we run - **Platform and streaming.** Your festival environment, film catalog, access windows and secure playback, built and operated for the cycle. - **Ticketing and conversion.** Passes, tiers, gifting and checkout, tuned against real conversion data rather than guesswork. - **Paid acquisition.** Strategy, media buying and creative direction, with every dollar traced to a pass sold. - **Email and retention.** Onboarding, reminders, win-back and post-festival sequences running on the same audience data. - **Audience growth.** Owned audience building, selected audience partnerships and reactivation of past attendees. - **Operations and reporting.** Attendee support and reporting through the festival window. ### Results - Before FestivalForge: 192 registered attendees in the last comparable cycle. - After: 4,300+ tickets issued across two operated cycles. - 8,000+ hours streamed. - 39 films in the most recent edition. ### How an engagement runs 1. **Diagnose.** Current platform, revenue model, audience, campaign history, operating gaps. 2. **Build.** Festival environment, offers, ticketing, film catalog, analytics, campaign infrastructure. 3. **Launch.** Package the festival, open sales, run paid and owned acquisition. 4. **Operate.** Platform, audience journey, reporting and issues through the festival window. 5. **Retain.** Convert the cycle's sales, viewing and audience behavior into a reusable growth asset. Need diagnosis before choosing a service? The Festival Growth Assessment is available separately. ### FestivalForge is built for - Established festivals preparing for their next cycle - Cultural organizations with recurring film programming - Teams with a demonstrated audience, committed funding or institutional backing - Organizations ready to place one partner in charge of the digital operation ### FestivalForge is probably not the right fit when - First-time festival concepts without operating history - Organizations seeking only inexpensive self-service software - One-off screenings with limited technical needs - Organizations with no budget for the online side of their festival. ### Festival services - Festival Growth Assessment: $3,500. A separate, optional diagnostic. - Festival Launch Page: $7,500 per cycle. - Online Edition Build: from $15,000 per cycle. - Managed Online Edition: from $30,000 per cycle. - Full Cycle Operations: tailored engagement; pricing follows application review. - We accept a limited number of full-cycle engagements each year because the work is deeply operational. - Platform fee for festivals: 5% of ticket and pass sales, in place of the per-ticket fees ticketing platforms charge. Media spend, payment processing and streaming are billed at cost. Editions run on the organization's own domain, and on festivalforge.com unless it opts out. Ticket revenue deposits directly into the organization's Stripe account, and advertising platforms are funded directly by the client. - Year-round collections: setup $5,000 (up to 50 films), $10,000 (51 to 200), $15,000 (201 to 500), from $25,000 (500+). Platform: 15% of collection revenue, $500 minimum per month. Managed collection: 20%, $1,500 minimum per month. Growth collection: 25%, $3,000 minimum per month, media spend separate. The client pays the percentage or the monthly minimum, whichever is higher. - Your organization retains control of its audience data, customer relationships, payment accounts and branded festival assets. One number. One accountable operating partner. ### What one FestivalForge engagement consolidates - Festival platform and streaming infrastructure - Ticketing and conversion systems - Paid-media strategy and management - Website, integrations and automation - Email and audience retention - Festival-cycle operations and reporting Instead of coordinating separate vendors across the attendee journey, the festival works with one accountable operating partner. ### Apply Apply to work with FestivalForge. Choose the responsibility level you need, or select “Not sure yet.” The Assessment remains optional. --- ## Festival Growth Assessment (/assessment) A two-week diagnostic that finds where your festival leaks money. Interactive report, leak map with dollars attached, sequenced plan. $3,500 flat, fully credited against any build within 90 days. Facts: - Duration: 2 weeks - Fee: $3,500 flat - Output: Interactive web report - Credit: 100% applied to any build or campaign within 90 days ### What gets evaluated 1. **Executive Summary.** The one page your director and board read together. 2. **Audience and Revenue Autopsy.** Your last two editions: attendance curve, pass-tier mix, revenue per attendee, and exactly where sales stalled. 3. **Acquisition Audit.** Where your audience actually came from, benchmarked against real festival campaign data, live cost-per-pass numbers from festivals we have grown, not industry averages. 4. **Stack and Ownership Audit.** The owned-versus-rented map. Your submissions platform owns that relationship. Your streaming platform owns that audience. Who owns your purchaser list? 5. **The Leak Map.** Prioritized findings with dollars attached. No lifecycle email between editions has a cost. Unattributed ad spend has a cost. We name them. 6. **Go-Forward Plan.** Sequenced, priced, and ready to execute, with us or without us. ### How it runs - **Kickoff, 45 minutes.** Access and context. You bring whoever knows the numbers. - **We work.** Your data, your editions, your stack, mapped against festival benchmarks. - **Readout, 60 minutes.** The report walked through live, leak map and plan included. Intake asks for: name, role, email, festival name, festival website, next edition dates, and the growth question you most want answered. --- ## Film Storefronts (/for-filmmakers) Storefronts let filmmakers sell and stream their own films, with secure adaptive streaming and signed playback. --- ## Other public pages - Results and case studies: /case-study - Comparisons with other festival platforms: /compare/eventive, /compare/filmocracy, /compare/shift72, /compare/cinesend - Film collections and archives: /collections/pricing, /for-collections - Changelog: /changelog - Talk to Clara, our AI partnerships lead: /clara - Contact: /contact - FAQ: /faq - Terms: /terms - Privacy: /privacy --- ## Contact festivalforge.com