PR for NZ's biggest one-day festival

Jessica Cartwright

We’ve been working with Team Event for 14 years and this year we were thrilled to lead the public relations for the Electric Avenue Festival – providing media, social media, content creation, artist liaison and issues management services.

Attracting 35,000 people and costing $6 million, Electric Avenue is the country’s biggest one-day festival and brings in more tourism dollars to Ōtautahi Christchurch than any other one-day event. This year the festival boasted electronic heavyweights the Chemical Brothers and a stacked line up of 35 artists across four stages.

To say the event was a success would be an understatement! The reviews have been fantastic and we’re very proud to represent an incredible company that has worked extremely hard over the last 12 months taking ticketholder feedback and putting it into action to make this festival the best it’s ever been.

Don’t take our word for it, check out this great review from NZ Herald.

Team Event also operates the annual South Island Wine and Food Festival, the Great Kiwi Beer Festival, Nostalgia Festival and various other one-off events.

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