Venues

Formerly known as Mustard Media, the agency was founded in Manchester in 2013 by experience creators who successfully launched and scaled new-to-market experiences in the UK and Europe for over a decade. With a team of the industry's leading ticket strategists and performance marketers, mustard has an unrivaled understanding of what it takes to fill capacities and scale experience brands.

From launching and scaling new experiences into the market as operators, mustard started in 2013 as the industry-leading marketing agency for festivals, gigs and clubs in the UK and Europe. Formerly k known as Mustard Media, mustard has evolved into a growth partner across the entire experience economy, driven by our unique background as operators and extensive insights from driving millions in ticket sales and bookings. We've delivered over £400m in revenue across 20+ countries and built a track record that spans every scale of experience, from independent festivals to global entertainment groups.

To put it simply, we deliver growth strategies and design a marketing infrastrature that is built to drive more ticket sales and bookings, and we have a performance execution team that manages your paid media campaigns and performance creative production across social and email. We use proprietary reporting and dashboards based on our unique experience as successful event operators to help you understand the metrics that matter for growing your attendees.  

Alongside. Venue marketing teams are managing huge volumes of shows and ticket inventory, plus managing brand comms all year round. What is often missing is the layer above the individual shows to own a broader venue level growth strategy, infrastructure, systems and reporting. 

Yes, we work across larger scale arenas to smaller capacity music halls, theatres and independent venues.