Eventbrite - Review 2022

If yous long to get a swingin' cat who makes the rounds of local cultural events like outdoor concerts, book-club meetups, moving-picture show festivals, and sake tastings, you should cheque out Eventbrite. The service boasts a robust issue listing and the ability to purchase tickets. You won't be able to utilise it to purchase tickets for sporting events or high-contour shows, and you tin't create your own events directly from the mobile app. Still, Eventbrite is worth checking out, if y'all're looking for cool smaller-calibration happenings in your boondocks.

Welcome to the Party, Pal

The spider web-based Eventbrite puts the most important matter, search, front end and center. Like Songkick, Eventbrite's homepage automatically detects your location based on your location and pre-fills the location search criteria; you simply key-in an issue name or category. You can even filter your searches by date, if you're specifically looking for a expert time this upcoming weekend.

Below that search bar lives a big expanse that's filled with upcoming events. If y'all haven't created an account, y'all see a unproblematic listing of activities and performances in your area. If you create an account, still, the app shows you events that friction match the topics of interest you selected when you signed up. For example, I selected the Cultural, Food & Beverage, and Festival categories when I signed up, so my Eventbrite homepage is oftentimes filled with the likes of A Corrupt Evening of Chocolate and Cocktails, Popular Up Dinner NYC, and New York Cocktail Expo. The bottom of the page displays trending topics, such as Networking and Sports & Wellness.

It's important to understand what kind of bookings you can brand with the service—and what kinds you can't. Eventbrite specializes in smaller, libation events, such every bit tastings, indie music performances, conventions, and readings. Ticketmaster, on the other paw, offers tickets for high-profile shows, such every bit The Book of Mormon and The Panthera leo King. This is not the sort of thing you'll detect on Eventbrite. That said, Tribeca Motion picture Festival uses Eventbrite to handle its ticketing, and so I used the service to proceeds access to a Cobra Kai screening earlier the television show made its debut on YouTube Premium.

Selecting an event takes y'all to a folio on which you tin view the event venue, accost, engagement, commencement and end times, and location (which yous can view using an embedded Google Map, much as you lot tin with Songkick). I too like that each event has tags that pb you lot to like events when you click through. Unfortunately, you tin't track recurring events, such as the NYC Arts and crafts Beer Festival, to receive alerts for an impending show. This kind of tracking is an area in which Songkick truly excels.

Saving and Purchasing Tickets

Yous can salvage events by clicking the bookmark icon located but below the listing's main image. Alternately, you can purchase tickets by clicking the large light-green Tickets icon. Saved events live in the Saved department, while purchased tickets live in the Tickets section. I like that Eventbrite separates those 2 categories, every bit information technology makes identifying which is which much simpler. Ticketmaster does the same, just Songkick, sadly, combines favorites and purchases into i category in its Plans department. You can too add events to your calendar, be it from Apple tree, Google, Outlook, or Yahoo.

The ticket purchase process requires that you input your proper name, email address, and credit/debit card information within a xv-minute fourth dimension frame. If yous don't complete the purchase within the allotted time, yous lose the held ticket and have to brainstorm the procedure anew. In my feel with the service, Eventbrite handles the ticketing; I tin't call up a time when I was shuttled to Ticketmaster or StubHub to consummate the transaction. Songkick, on the other manus, sends you lot to a third party to make a ticket purchase.

Sadly, Eventbrite doesn't support multiple account logins. This makes things a bit frustrating for people like me who use Eventbrite for both professional (E3 after parties) and personal reasons (ramen festivals). The ability to switch betwixt accounts would exist a welcome improver. Instead, yous have to create two accounts, with ii different email addresses, and then log in and out as needed.

Eventbrite keeps a total tape of all your ticket purchases. In fact, I scrolled back to 2009 (about a decade ago!) to observe an invite for a housewarming party. I didn't look Eventbrite to serve upwardly some warm and fuzzy memories when I started testing it for this review.

The Eventbrite Mobile Apps

Eventbrite has apps for the Android and iOS platforms. I mainly tested Eventbrite on my Google Pixel XL, but I spent a bit of fourth dimension with the iPhone version, too. The apps are very like to each other in terms of blueprint, and both offering the browser-based version'due south many useful features. That said, they differ from the web version in small ways.

For example, yous can use your phone every bit a barcode-based e-ticket instead of physically printing one out a ticket—that'southward very user-friendly. In addition, the mobile apps permit yous edit your user profile to add together or remove event topics. Unfortunately, that option isn't bachelor in the spider web version.

Paint the Town Ruddy

Overall, Eventbrite is a useful tool for discovering interesting events in your cervix of the woods. Depending on what you're into, Eventbrite could serve every bit your chief method of discovering local activities, or, if you're similar me, you may find it works best equally a companion to the likes of StubHub and Ticketmaster. Eventbrite is fantabulous at serving upwardly cupcake bake-offs, walking tours, and other relatively minor-scale events, simply if it's big-proper name Broadway shows you're after, StubHub and Ticketmaster are better choices.