garfield Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 (edited) Total attendance up by 1000 over 2012, but semifinals attendance lags considerably. DCI attendance And here are the 2012 numbers for comparison: 2012 Attendance Edited August 21, 2013 by garfield Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaseyW Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 (edited) Almost 40,000 during the 3 days...sounds like a great number to me. Edited August 21, 2013 by kaseyW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 (edited) 2.6% attendance growth from 2012 is not great, but it is growth none-the-less. Better than going backwards, at least. I will suggest that the revenues resulting from this attendance is more important than the BITS, but we won't know those numbers for another 18 months or so... Edited August 21, 2013 by garfield 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShortAndFast Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Another 10-12% growth in the movie theatre audience. This has really been one of DCI's success stories 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Rott Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I wonder how many people purchased the finals stream? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrlandoContraAlum Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 A couple of things to consider: 1. They have 20,000 paid at finals, a sizable increase (17,000 in 2012). This despite the availability of a Finals Webcast. Now, to be sure, they announced the webcast pretty late in the game, and I doubt many folks who were already planning on attending live would have canceled their plans to watch on the web, but it remains a factor. 2. Directly from the article, "A significant portion of the additional audience for finals can be attributed directly to a sizable increase in local Indiana residents attending the event." This could somewhat financially troubling, if only because Indy residents were offered VERY deeply discounted tickets. That said, it was nice to see a pretty full house on Saturday night. I wonder if the alternatives (Fan Network, Theater) are big reasons for the drops in QF and Semis, or if 3 straight nights and nearly 30 hours of corps shows is a bit of an overload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 I wonder how many people purchased the finals stream? I was thinking the same thing; I'd be interested in hearing data regarding Fan Network subscribers (FN subscribers, pay-per-view buys, Finals stream buyers, FN live+DVD/Blu-ray subscribers, etc). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perc2100 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 2. Directly from the article, "A significant portion of the additional audience for finals can be attributed directly to a sizable increase in local Indiana residents attending the event." This could somewhat financially troubling, if only because Indy residents were offered VERY deeply discounted tickets. Or it could be promising: more locals could mean more return customers next season. Discounted tickets or no, customers through the turnstiles means money spent on tickets and probably money spent at concessions and/or souvies: money likely not collected in previous years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garfield Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 I wonder how many people purchased the finals stream? The number I'm hearing tops 3400. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrlandoContraAlum Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 Or it could be promising: more locals could mean more return customers next season. Discounted tickets or no, customers through the turnstiles means money spent on tickets and probably money spent at concessions and/or souvies: money likely not collected in previous years. Good point, that. Rereading my original response, it seemed to have a more negative vibe than I had hoped. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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