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Side Door Launches New Redesigned Platform!
Platform Update
Side Door Launches New Redesigned Platform!
Platform Update

Today, Side Door is so happy to launch our brand-new redesigned and refined platform! We’re returning to our main purpose - which was always to connect artists with hosts to create in-person shows.

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Platform Update

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Featured
Side Door Launches New Redesigned Platform!
Platform Update
Side Door Launches New Redesigned Platform!
Platform Update

Today, Side Door is so happy to launch our brand-new redesigned and refined platform! We’re returning to our main purpose - which was always to connect artists with hosts to create in-person shows.

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Platform Update
Introducing: The Vision for Equity at Side Door
EDI
Introducing: The Vision for Equity at Side Door
EDI

The Side Door team has been working toward developing a strategic plan outlining short-term and long-term goals for equity, diversity, and inclusion at the company to ensure we are meeting everyone where they’re at. This is the beginning of our journey of an ongoing commitment to creating an equitable community and company.

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EDI
Open your Door to Hosting a Show
Tips and Tricks
Open your Door to Hosting a Show
Tips and Tricks

Are you considering hosting a show in your space but not sure how to take the first step? Here’s how and why you should get started in bringing live art to your community!

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Tips and Tricks
Platform Update: Auto-save & Change History
Platform Update
Platform Update: Auto-save & Change History
Platform Update

Remember pulling an all-nighter to write a paper? You finally get it done and accidentally hit escape instead of save. The worst! Our latest platform update automatically saves all your hard work when building a show.

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Platform Update
Press Release: Side Door to SXSW
Editorial, Shows
Press Release: Side Door to SXSW
Editorial, Shows

Side Door announces a partnership with SXSW called Side Door to SXSW, which will book curated tours for six selected SXSW showcasing artists traveling to Austin, TX for this year's festival and conference. Each touring experience will be documented along the road, culminating with an official Side Door to SXSW showcase on March 18th, 2022 at the Drafting Room.

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Editorial, Shows
Platform Update: QR Code Check-in & Online Show Fee Update
Platform Update
Platform Update: QR Code Check-in & Online Show Fee Update
Platform Update

There's nothing like the anticipation leading up to a show, but nobody wants to wait in line for what can feel like hours to see their favourite artist. Our latest platform update gives In-person show creators the ability to streamline the check-in process by scanning ticketholders QR code(s).

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Platform Update
Side Door 2021 Year in Review
Platform Update, Side Door Stories
Side Door 2021 Year in Review
Platform Update, Side Door Stories

Over the past two years, we’ve invested our time into our online show and ticketing solutions. In 2022, we maintain focus on ensuring artists have a space to perform and the ability to earn revenue from their performances. Whether it’s self-booking a show in-person or online, or helping them match with great venues or presenters, it’s our big audacious goal to open as many (side) doors to new and existing stages as possible.

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Platform Update, Side Door Stories
Platform Update: New Navigation Menu
Platform Update
Platform Update: New Navigation Menu
Platform Update

Our new navigation menu simplifies the Side Door experience by allowing you to select between Ticketing, Connect, and Audience. Get to where you want to go quicker by choosing if you want to build and manage a show or series (Ticketing), find artists and spaces (Connect) or buy tickets to upcoming shows (Audience).

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Platform Update
Platform Update: Plan a festival with Show Series
Platform Update
Platform Update: Plan a festival with Show Series
Platform Update

Remember that scene from Wayne’s World when they get all access passes to Alice Cooper? Our latest platform update allows audience members to experience that same thrill and more! Show creators can now assemble a series of shows and sell passes with access to every show. You can even create multiple types or tiers of passes. Party on!

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Platform Update
Spotlight on Vancouver Island
Editorial, Shows
Spotlight on Vancouver Island
Editorial, Shows

BC Series Spotlight on Vancouver Island presented by Rogers features Vancouver Island's brightest talent performing to highlight important causes

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Editorial, Shows
Platform Update: Email Ticketholders right on the platform!
Platform Update
Platform Update: Email Ticketholders right on the platform!
Platform Update

We continue to add more robust tools to our ticketing platform that allow for a seamless show experience for everyone. Sometimes show details change, like location or the showtime, or maybe you want to send out a special announcement like an exclusive Q&A happening after the livestream.

Our latest platform update allows show creators to email all ticketholders right on the platform.

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Platform Update
Platform Update: At long last, Tiered Ticketing is here!
Platform Update: At long last, Tiered Ticketing is here!

This long-anticipated feature is a significant leap forward in the quest to make sophisticated ticketing supremely easy to use for both online and in-person shows. And we can't wait for you to multi-ticket to your heart's desire.

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Platform Update: Touring & Connection Features
Platform Update
Platform Update: Touring & Connection Features
Platform Update

Building out a tour? Need to find some great spaces to play shows? Our latest platform update allows Artists to place radius pins (called “beacons”) in areas they plan to tour with date ranges of availability. This feature alerts Hosts in those areas like a lowkey bat signal!

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Platform Update
Press Release: Side Door launches subsidy program for live and virtual shows
Press Release: Side Door launches subsidy program for live and virtual shows

Side Door launches BACK TO LIVE with Side Door, a new support program designed to increase live performance spaces by supporting existing spaces and helping first-time hosts get started. The program will help artists return to live entertainment quickly within a financially sustainable model despite a widespread loss of small-to-medium-sized clubs throughout the United States.

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Platform Update: Side Door Broadcast is here!
Platform Update
Platform Update: Side Door Broadcast is here!
Platform Update

Introducing Side Door Broadcast - a high-fidelity ticketed experience all embedded securely within the platform.



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Platform Update
Press Release: Side Door raises $3M USD Seed round to foster a thriving global middle class of artistry
Press Release: Side Door raises $3M USD Seed round to foster a thriving global middle class of artistry

Side Door, the “any space is a venue” marketplace platform for the arts, has raised a US$3M Seed round. The round was led by Vancouver-based Rhino Ventures and saw meaningful participation from Upside Partnership, as well as an impressive group of early partners from other groundbreaking platforms such as Thinkific, Shopify, and Airbnb.



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Platform Update: New Website, who dis?
Platform Update: New Website, who dis?

Our website got a significant facelift, and we can't wait to share it with you!


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Platform Update: SEO and Timezone Improvements
Platform Update: SEO and Timezone Improvements

Our latest platform update includes a suite of features to help increase online exposure to shows and profiles, improved locale support, and localized time zone functionality!

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Platform Update: Guestlist, Chat, and Follow Update
Platform Update: Guestlist, Chat, and Follow Update

Introducing the Guestlist Manager Bulk Comp Import! Previously, adding a large number of comp tickets to the Guestlist Manager was tedious and time-consuming. Our new bulk comp import tool allows you to send comp tickets to multiple parties at once.

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Platform Update: Geo-gated Ticketing
Platform Update
Platform Update: Geo-gated Ticketing
Platform Update

This highly requested feature has been in the works for a long time, and we can't believe this day is here. Geo-gated ticketing is now available on Side Door!

Artists, Presenters, Hosts, and Venues can sell tickets to specific markets by limiting sales to an audience's geographic location.


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Platform Update
Platform Update: We’re adjusting our processing fees. Here’s why.
Platform Update
Platform Update: We’re adjusting our processing fees. Here’s why.
Platform Update

One of our core beliefs is that artists and audiences alike deserve transparent ticketing. Our latest platform update includes a small increase to processing fees.

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Platform Update
Platform Update: Trackable Custom Affiliate Links
Platform Update
Platform Update: Trackable Custom Affiliate Links
Platform Update

Want to track your sales by source? Work with multiple promoters on a show and pay them out based on their individual results? You can do that and more with our latest feature rollout and you don’t even have to leave the Side Door.

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Platform Update
Stream Team: Week of January 21
Shows
Stream Team: Week of January 21
Shows

Laugh with New England's best comics, as seen on America's Got Talent, as they take the stage at BrickBox; Sean Watson Graham is making his solo debut, Cirque du Soleil alum Pianist Janine De Lorenzo will perform her original material. You can Sing along with Spookey Ruben LIVE and saxophonist Iordache will be live from Bucharest; discover these shows and more this week on Side Door.

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Shows
Million Dollar Unicorn Show Artists Announcement, Part 2
Shows
Million Dollar Unicorn Show Artists Announcement, Part 2
Shows

It's million dollar unicorn Artist Announcement Day, Part 2! Before we hear from our Co-Founder and CEO Laura Simpson announcing our next round of Artists (we're so excited!!), we wanted to share more about the charity where all the proceeds from the million dollar unicorn show are going: Unison Benevolent Fund.

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Stream Team: Week of January 14
Shows
Stream Team: Week of January 14
Shows

Need some weekend plans? We've got you covered. Live on Side Door: we welcome back Patrick Pentland of Sloan, asking you to vote on the setlist. The Stillhouse Junkies continue their concert series from the snow-covered Rockies. Experience the beauty of Indian Classical Music, The Nomadic Ivories, or take part in a play reading, and officially sing in the new year with a little country.

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The Million Dollar Unicorn Show
Shows
The Million Dollar Unicorn Show
Shows

We did it. We hit the ONE MILLION DOLLAR mark in ticket sales since we founded Side Door in 2017. To celebrate we’re throwing a party - the million dollar unicorn show! Today our CEO and co-founder Laura Simpson is announcing our first two artists.

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Stream Team: Week of January 7
Shows
Stream Team: Week of January 7
Shows

Our first Stream Team of the new year! This week on Side Door, you have the opportunity to support three shows raising funds for important causes, including a four-part miniseries Tippi and Stan by an award-winning playwright. Or join comedian Sean Cullen for an evening of silliness or enter a space of free exploration with Moon Music.

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Shows
Platform Update: Name-Your-Price Ticketing
Platform Update
Platform Update: Name-Your-Price Ticketing
Platform Update

Want to offer ticket holders a way to pay what they can for an upcoming show? Well, now you can with our latest platform update: Pay-What-You-Can (PWYC) Ticketing.

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Platform Update
Stream Team: Week of December 17
Shows
Stream Team: Week of December 17
Shows

Side Door is coming to town - seriously, we've got a record of almost 50 shows this week! Peach Pit headlines the Kingfisher Bluez Christmas Party, The JP Hoe Hoe for the Holidays is SOLD OUT; Jill Barber returns with her brother Matthew. Jennifer Castle celebrates the Winter Solstice, A Christmas Carol readings, and so much more. Grab some egg nog, invite a friend, and let's experience some holiday magic together.

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Shows
Stream Team: Week of December 10
Shows
Stream Team: Week of December 10
Shows

We’re bringing 28 unique shows to you this week on Side Door. So hang on to your reindeer ‘cause we’ve got several Holiday shows with some big lineups. Plus, a performance of The Nutcracker and comedic icons take the stage.

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