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Festival Sponsorship Pricing Strategy: CPM Lies, Throughput Tells the Truth

Festival Sponsorship Pricing Strategy: CPM Lies, Throughput Tells the Truth

Learn how to move beyond outdated CPM metrics and price festival sponsorships for real engagement and profit. Discover expert strategies for blending pricing based on capacity, dwell time, and conversion rates, modeling costs and risk, setting rock-solid rate card floors, and using shadow P&Ls so every sponsor deal benefits your festival. Transform your sponsorship pricing to reflect true value and maximize ROI for you and your partners.