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Nevents — stand-up events in Dubai

Выступление стендап-комика перед залом

About

Events in Dubai with concerts by popular stand-up comedians: Evgeny Chebatkov, Ivan Usovich, Nurlan Saburov, Rasul Chabdarov, Sasha Maloy and others.

Task

Grow ticket sales at the venues and scale the promo campaigns in Dubai for stand-up concerts.

A kind and professional team of event organisers in Dubai — they regularly bring in well-known stand-up artists and promote their concerts.

Ticket sales through partners already work, the organisation is in place, they have their own contractors and managers. What is needed is more sales and digital promotion channels, to reach more people and fill the big halls faster.

We decided to work with Meta Ads and Google Ads on the audience of Dubai and the nearest large cities, where there are many Russian-speaking entrepreneurs and expats.

Today we tell the story through one of those events — how the Evgeny Chebatkov concert went.

Three weeks before the concert we start promoting the event with the artist hard. But before that moment there is still the preparation stage.

We assemble the ad strategy and the chain of touchpoints, write the texts and the meanings, build the campaign architecture, make the posters and the creatives.

With events it matters to make several touches on one user, bringing in retargeting and the database. Because a person rarely decides to buy in one click — they often stop to think or simply forget.

Постеры концертов Nevents: Евгений Чебатков в Дубае, «Дубай — Пушкин, Малой», нарезки форматов под площадки
Creatives for Nevents ads.

For the creatives we take posters with the city name and the dates, to catch the attention of the target audience fast. We also cut the funny moments and edit 2-3 video clips for the ads.

For the work we created several ad accounts on each platform in case of a block during active advertising with a budget of 200-300$ a day. It happens, because every social platform comes with a security system prone to fits of paranoia.

At the same time we fill and verify the main account to the maximum, because when prepared properly it becomes a reliable long-term tool.

Кабинет Meta Ads: кампании под концерт Чебаткова 18 января в Дубае, показы, клики и расход Второй рекламный кабинет с кампаниями cpc и cpa под то же мероприятие
The Nevents ad campaign.

Results

800 seatsOver 4 weeks of work we spent 2300$ of ad budget on the Evgeny Chebatkov concert and got a full hall of 800 seats. A ticket costs 60$, and the business model accounts for one buyer taking 2 tickets in 90% of cases.

$4Cost per purchase (CPO) came out at 4 dollars per ticket. That is optimal given the margin and the other costs.

Laughter makes life longer, advertising makes profit bigger.