Ents24
Encyclopedia
Ents24 is a website
that provides entertainment listings and information, encompassing live music
, clubbing
, cinema
, theatre
, arts
, and stand-up comedy
. The site contains details of thousands of events happening across the UK every day and is visited by more than one million people every month.
Competitors include Aloud.com and Time Out.
, See Tickets
and Ticketweb, as well as linking to smaller independent retailers. In terms of visits during Q1 2007, the website is the third most popular online ticketing retailer in the UK.
While Ents24 do allow end-users to add events to their database, unlike other events websites such as Upcoming.org
, they check all submitted listings manually and often add photographs and additional copy
. Listings can be added to the events guide for free
.
Ents24 operate a number of email-based services, including a weekly newsletter
and 'tour date alerts' which are sent to users when tour dates from one of their selected artists are added to the website.
Ents24's content is used by some of the UK's leading online
and mobile
services, including O2 Active, Orange
World and i-mode
.
in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
ents24.com was registered in October 1999, and Ents24 was registered as a Limited Company
in 2000.
Website
A website, also written as Web site, web site, or simply site, is a collection of related web pages containing images, videos or other digital assets. A website is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network through an Internet...
that provides entertainment listings and information, encompassing live music
Live Music
Live Music is a reggaeton company owned by DJ Giann.-Artists:* Jowell & Randy* Tony Lenta* Watussi* De La Ghetto* Guelo Star* Galante "El Emperador"-Producers:*DJ Blass*Dexter*Mr. Greenz*DJ Giann*Los Hitmen*Dirty Joe*ALX...
, clubbing
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...
, cinema
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
, theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
, arts
ARts
aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....
, and stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...
. The site contains details of thousands of events happening across the UK every day and is visited by more than one million people every month.
Competitors include Aloud.com and Time Out.
Website Features
In addition to providing information about events, the site also allows users to buy tickets in association with three of the UK's best-known online ticket sellers TicketmasterTicketmaster
Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. is an independent American ticket sales and distribution company based in West Hollywood, California, USA, with operations in many countries around the world. In 2010 it merged with Live Nation to become Live Nation Entertainment...
, See Tickets
See Tickets
See Tickets is the trading name of a British ticketing services company owned by Vivendi. See was previously owned by Parcom Capital and before that was the ticketing division of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group and the largest UK owned ticketing company.Created from the merger of the...
and Ticketweb, as well as linking to smaller independent retailers. In terms of visits during Q1 2007, the website is the third most popular online ticketing retailer in the UK.
While Ents24 do allow end-users to add events to their database, unlike other events websites such as Upcoming.org
Upcoming.org
Upcoming is a social event calendar website that launched in 2003, founded by Andy Baio. On October 4, 2005, Upcoming.org was acquired by Yahoo!.- Features :...
, they check all submitted listings manually and often add photographs and additional copy
Copy (written)
Copy refers to written material, in contrast to photographs or other elements of layout, in a large number of contexts, including magazines, advertising, and book publishing....
. Listings can be added to the events guide for free
Gratis
Gratis is the process of providing goods or services without compensation. It is often referred to in English as "free of charge" or "complimentary"...
.
Ents24 operate a number of email-based services, including a weekly newsletter
Newsletter
A newsletter is a regularly distributed publication generally about one main topic that is of interest to its subscribers. Newspapers and leaflets are types of newsletters. Additionally, newsletters delivered electronically via email have gained rapid acceptance for the same reasons email in...
and 'tour date alerts' which are sent to users when tour dates from one of their selected artists are added to the website.
Ents24's content is used by some of the UK's leading online
ONLINE
ONLINE is a magazine for information systems first published in 1977. The publisher Online, Inc. was founded the year before. In May 2002, Information Today, Inc. acquired the assets of Online Inc....
and mobile
Mobile phone
A mobile phone is a device which can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link whilst moving around a wide geographic area. It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile network operator...
services, including O2 Active, Orange
Orange UK
Orange is a mobile network operator and internet service provider in the United Kingdom, which launched in 1994. It was once a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index but was purchased by France Télécom in 2000, which then adopted the Orange brand for all its other mobile communications activities...
World and i-mode
I-mode
NTT DoCoMo's i-mode is a mobile internet service popular in Japan. Unlike Wireless Application Protocol, i-mode encompasses a wider variety of internet standards, including web access, e-mail and the packet-switched network that delivers the data...
.
Event Sponsorship
Ents24 sponsored one of the main stages at GuilFestGuilFest
GuilFest, formerly the Guildford Festival of Folk and Blues is a music festival held in Stoke Park, Guildford, England each July. The festival, like the larger Glastonbury Festival, features a range of genres including rock, folk, blues, and in recent years pop...
in 2006, 2007, and 2008.
History
The domain nameDomain name
A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System ....
ents24.com was registered in October 1999, and Ents24 was registered as a Limited Company
Limited company
A limited company is a company in which the liability of the members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company. Limited companies may be limited by shares or by guarantee. And the former of these, a limited company limited by shares, may be...
in 2000.