livingconcerts.com is a network of artists and living rooms. We stimulate people to host private concerts on places where musician have never played before. This presentation shows the booking process and the results after two weeks.

1. GLIMPS CONFERENCE
Dec 13th, 2014

2. hi, I’m Jelle
• I’m a musician, played 60 living room concerts in 2014
• I work in a webdevelopment company, called Wieni
• We built a platform to engage living room concerts:
www.livingconcerts.com
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3. 9 reasons why private living room
concerts are a good idea
1. the host is a matchmaker between
the artist he booked & the audience he
invites
2. artists play for a 90% new audience
3. 30% of the audience buys merchandise
4. 100% private shows, good for tryouts &
experiment
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4. 5. you got direct feedback from the audience
6. unique experience that shows the essence
of live music
7. brings back music as a craft, no hiding
behind wall of sound or light-effects
8. no costs like promotion, ticketing, security,
what make a concert-ticket expensive
9. time & money saver : no PA, no
soundcheck, no light- or soundguys needed
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5. only 6 steps to book an artist
1. Register your living room address
2. Discover almost 400 artists in every genre
3. Send a booking request to one or more artists
4. Wait for a reply of the artist with the
conditions of the concert
5. Pay the service fee of €45
6. Concert is confirmed: invite your friends!
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6. Jelle Van den Bergh | 18.08.2013

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8. 8
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9. Jelle Van den Bergh | 18.08.2013

10. Jelle Van den Bergh | 18.08.2013

11. Jelle Van den Bergh | 18.08.2013

12. Jelle Van den Bergh | 18.08.2013

13. In 5 months
1.700 living rooms
pre-registered
to book an artist
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14. Mostly in Flanders
& the Netherlands
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15. results after two weeks
• 150 booking requests
• 40 confirmed concerts
• artists are affordable: €300 (average price),
that’s €10/person for the size of a normal living room
• artists & living rooms need a total of
6 conversation messages to come to an
agreement of a concert
• that usually takes 8 days
• a living room response time average: 28h
• an artist response time average: 24h
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16. next steps
• How do you find the most suitable act for your living room in 350+ artists?
• ratings & reviews
• # concerts played
• recommendations based on Facebook profile or browsing history
• Sabam calculation module
Based on size of living room & repertoire played
• Online invitations for managing guestlist
•Insurance
• Partnerships with local organisations
• SMS text notifications?
• Internationalisation to NL, GE, FR, UK,…
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17. See you in your living room!
www.livingconcerts.com
@livingconcert
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