This shows the pent up demand that we are all feeling to gather together again.

The good news that Julia Hartz, the CEO of Eventbrite, shared in the earnings call was that Australia and New Zealand ticket volume in March was 20% over the March of 2019. The comparison is not quite fair, as Eventbrite is many 10-20 times our size (although the Pandemic has brought us temporarily closer): Eventbrite was down in Q1 by 58% from 2018, while GiveSignup | RunSignup ticket volume is actually up 7%. We have created a new way to track total tickets per quarter using 2018 as a base year. This latest quarter still showed significant slowdown from the pandemic, especially compared to the relative recovery GiveSignup | RunSignup has seen. We reported on the Eventbrite 2020 Annual Report, as well as past public Eventbrite reports. We are also beginning to overlap with them more as nonprofits discover the GiveSignup Ticket Platform that is purpose built for nonprofits.

We have been following Eventbrite since they are a similar company serving events and having a similar business model of charging for their services only with processing fees since they went public.

Eventbrite fees 2021