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The Press Association maintains a database of over 1 million live events taking place at more than 24,000 venues across the UK and Ireland. Every kind of leisure event is covered, including film, theatre, gigs, exhibitions, comedy, clubs, dance, opera, classical music, places to visit, family and community events.

In addition to comprehensive listings services, our talented team of critics source pictures and write informed reviews and previews for key events. From weekly cinema listings and gig guides to community events and places to visit, our event listing services provide the ultimate What’s On guide.

Types of events covered

Key Features and Benefits:

• Full integration of our data
• Enhance your brand by displaying our data on your website
• Opportunities to drive advertising revenue around dynamic search results
• Ticketing links enabling you to draw affiliate revenue
• Includes over 40,000 geocoded venues and over 2 million unique UK events last year
• The full UK feed contains more than 200,000 live events at any point
• Film trailers, music video links and still imagery across our data categories

Global DataPoint specialising in suppling publishers with comprehensive events content for the whole of the UK.

How

• XML feed on a regular basis
• API to provide the data in real-time for individual ‘What’s On’ searches
• Whitelabel hosted websites and mobile apps

UK categories and subcategories

All major datasets are provided as venue and events files. Where necessary these files are then split into separate sub-category fields. Global DataPoint categorises all its event data based on this taxonomy.

Authorised Reseller of Eventful events data.

Whether you’re web based, mobile, print, or another type of application, Eventful has a proven track record of being adaptable on any platform. If your goal is to provide your customers with event information, we can provide you with the data to fit any medium

Worldwide categories and subcategories

With over 5 million events and growing, Eventful is unrivaled as the definitive source of event information on the Internet for anywhere on the globe. Our information is gathered from thousands of sources providing the long-tail of events at the hyper-local level unachievable by other event content providers.

Broad selection of events

Eventful’s 27 categories ensure that you can provide all of your customers with the information they need to determine what to do in their community – regardless of their interests, age or demographics. Categories range from music to cuisine, family fun to nightlife. Eventful’s robust categories include:

Clean, accurate information

Within each event, Eventful strives to provide a complete set of information, providing the best possible user experience. Fields provided, when available from the event source, include: event title, description, date and time, image, performers, tags, venue, and full location address.

With thousands of event sources, data quality is a necessity to maintain a clean, comprehensive set of event data. Eventful has an intricate four-step process, including automated means and human interaction with the data to ensure that event information is duplicate-free and at the highest content level possible. A team of data experts are constantly updating and monitoring the data to handle any new issues that arise to ensure your customers are having the best user experience possible.

Event sources

• Ticketing sites
• Convention and visitors bureaus
• Theatres
• Music venues
• Colleges and universities
• Retail stores
• Sport and social clubs
• Political Parties
• Over 1200 API content providers
• User-generated content
• . and more every day

Examples of Eventful’s white labelled events platform

Example: Local.com www.local.com
Specific Example: www.local.com/events/….
Unique People/month: 4.5M (December 2012, source: Estimated Quantcast)
Total Visits/month: 5.5M (December 2012, source: Estimated Quantcast)