Projects

Fringe Vibes

Fringe Vibes by Tavish provides a new visual way to discover shows at the Fringe. It will curate a selection of shows based on your search query using natural language, for example, "awkward standup comics", and displays events in a huge scrollable grid, allowing you to discover even more.

FringeFlow

FringeFlow uses AI to create a personalised show schedule so you can see more of what you like.

TicketBadger

TicketBadger is an AI-powered listings discovery tool that allows users to find the perfect event for their next trip to the Edinburgh Festivals.

Plan My Fringe

Plan My Fringe by Henson IT Solutions have developed a very innovative and powerful planning tool enabling visitors and avid Fringe-goers alike to find events and optimise a custom schedule helping them make the most of their visit.

Their algorithm allows users to prioritise shows by rating the ones they want to see and takes into account walking time between venues, budgets and even allows time for lunch and sleep breaks!

Transport for Edinburgh

Transport for Edinburgh used the Edinburgh Festival Listings API to augment their travel assistance app with the festivals venue data allowing users to easily plan their journeys to or from festival venues.

During the festivals, venues open across the city with new names and in all kinds of unusual locations. Utilising the venue data available through the API visitors can quickly find venues by their unique names or number making planning their journeys a lot easier. You can download the Transport for Edinburgh app here.

Zegami

Zegami was founded in 2016 after a successful collaboration between the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at the University of Oxford and was developed so that it could be used to visualise any kind of data, including images, video, documents or more traditional data sources like databases and spreadsheets.

Zegami used the Edinburgh Festivals Listings API to demonstrate the power of their data visualisation platform. It allows users to easily explore large image datasets and unlock powerful insights through their advanced analysis tools with a unique visualisation interface. Find out more about Zegami.

Frindr

Frindr is a fun way to discover shows at the Fringe, swiping through a selection of shows, the app will attempt to suggest more of what you might like and help to curate a list of favourites to book.

festies

festies by Alan Nevens is a social bookmarking site for people to be able to keep track of festival shows they might want to see and to share these with their friends.

myFestival

myFestival is an iOS festival planner app developed by Mike Crawford. You can use your location to find events nearby, curate your list of favourites shared across your iOS devices, and add performances to the calendar on your device.

Festival Clock

The Edinburgh Festival Clock was a visualisation designed by Stefanie Posavec and developed by Justin Quillinan.

Each event is represented by a line: the free shows are positioned on the outside of each festival circle, with the most expensive shows in the circle. By fast-forwarding the clock, one is able to quickly move through time and see how the festivals evolve through the season, showing how every event lights up and burns out as it begins and ends.

Fringe Posters

In 2019 Scottie sponsored a competition to support and celebrate companies and their designers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Organisers and promoters of events could submit their poster to a judging panel at Fringe Posters.

They used the Edinburgh Festivals Listings API to allow users to quickly and easily find their event and supply images of their posters to be entered into the competition. The winner was announced on Wednesday 14 August 2019.

SciSpy

Developed by the Edinburgh International Science Festival in 2016, SciSpy was created to introduce their audiences to the festival programme in a fun and engaging mobile web application.

Using intelligently delivered images and teaser lines, users swipe to indicate their interest in the event. Their preferences would progressively deliver more targeted results while exposing other events they may have not as easily discovered through browsing the programme. At the end of a session the user is presented with a list of events they have liked in order to find out more or book tickets.

Listings Widget

A concept by the Edinburgh International Festival led to the Edinburgh Festivals Listings API developing a 'widget' which allows website owners to easily display a selection of event listings on their site.

Website owners can create a widget using the self-service tool; selecting the festival, type of events, and a choice of colour scheme to produce an easy drop-in code snippet. The widget is designed to be fully responsive and displays an ever-changing selection of events from the relevant festival's programme. Create your customised widget.