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Taking a look at all the tours in 2019, we put together the most common item combinations that totalled majority of sales.

A big question we are frequently asked by venues unfamiliar with atVenu is, ‘will we make more money using atVenu and atVenu Register than our current solution?’.

Merchandise hasn’t been the most glamorized aspect of touring, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a crucial part of touring revenue.

This month we want to share insights focused on the venue side of merchandise, centering a lot of the information around capacity breakdowns,

With over 60,000 shows and $350+ million in merchandise sales through atVenu so far for 2019, what does the data show for music industry trends?

We’re excited to share the launch of three new feature enhancements that’ll make your lives even easier.

Learn how to digitally submit and track your SoundScan sales through atVenu, no additional work or time.

Time flies! 4 years ago today atVenu became SoundScan’s Preferred Venue Sales Data Provider, allowing artists to automatically submit all venue sales recorded in atVenu directly to SoundScan daily!

We’re excited to showcase our latest feature that helps reduce atVenu Register set up time from hours to minutes! Whether you have 5 atVenu Registers or 500, atVenu Quick Connect drastically reduces the time spent setting up your devices.

We’re honored to be a part of The Rolling Stones “No Filter” tour! Beginning July 3rd, atVenu Registers will power all merchandise transactions throughout the stadium tour.

With respect to Festivals, 2018 was a landmark year for atVenu. We powered the merch for over 100 different Festivals in 2018 alone.

January 17th marked the 4-year anniversary of the first show to use atVenu’s Tour Merch technology.

July of last year we hit $100 million in total merch revenue for 1,200 artists and we examined what that looked like on a per genre basis.

atVenu will become Nielsen SoundScan’s Preferred Venue Sales Data Provider and will automatically submit all venue sales recorded in atVenu directly to SoundScan on a daily basis!

With MerchIQ Planning, you enter your tour dates and the merch items you plan to sell.

We thought it would be interesting to take a look at which markets generate the most in merch revenue.

Now with over 1300 artists, we wanted to look at key analytics around the genres of these artists.

We passed a major milestone at the beginning of July – over 25,000 shows settled through the platform in just 18 months!

We’re thrilled to share that SXSW has selected us to manage all official merchandise sales for SXSW this year!

atVenu is no longer available by invite only! We have enabled self-sign up functionality and all artists can now utilize the atVenu platform.