St. Patrick’s Festival Sponsorship & Partnership Opportunities
Make exceptional and memorable connections with your target audience by partnering with Ireland’s most significant multi-disciplinary Arts Festival.
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Festival Overview St. Patrick’s Festival is Ireland’s leading multi-disciplinary arts festival which takes place annually over a 4-5 day period, in celebration of Ireland’s national holiday, St. Patrick’s Day.
• is good about Ireland both
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all that
domestically and internationally. Its multi-faceted programme creates a carnival atmosphere, ignites Irish pride, creates uplifting powerful experiences and delivers lasting memories for the 1.6 million people who engage with the festival annually. and performance, • pageantry, spectacle, music, dance, STreeT TheaTre
literature, comedy, film, visual art and family events are presented as part of the diverse world class programme.
• Friday 16th – Monday 19th March FeSTIval 2012
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Festival highlights • events annually engage with Festival a boost to the Irish •Delivers economy •Welcomes •Generates domestic publicity worth (ave) • website (Jan-Mar) recorded on official •Generates extensive •Involves over •9,950 Festival on RTÉ One • 1 . 6 m I l l I o n P eo P l e
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550,000
Festival Skyfest
52,000
Festival big Day out
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vIewerShIP (rTÉ one) Festival Parade
395,000
Festival Skyfest
314,000
Festival highlights
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St. Patrick’s Festival provides a unique platform to…
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• Responsibility strategy • hospitality experiences
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56% 23%
68% ABC1
under 35
of Festival audience are
Aged between 35-44*
earners*
Festival Audience profile
64% 36% Irish
Overseas visitors*
affluent, Dynamic, young
47%
over 710,000 people attended Festival events in 2011
52% 48% Female
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Male*
Attend with children*
auDIence FeeDbacK ** (A satisfied loyal attendance base)
88% 94% rated Festival as excellent
Said they would attend again
*Source: Fáilte Ireland economic Impact report on St. Patrick’s Festival 2010, conducted by behaviour & attitudes **Source: St. Patrick’s Festival research 2005, conducted by millward brown ImS
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Festival Marketing & Media profile
multi-platform media • National campaign dedicated Festival • Three broadcasts on RTÉ One visible city-wide outdoor • Highly branding campaign heavily trafficked web• Vibrant site • Tailored iPhone & android apps focused social media • Continuous activity range of national • Comprehensive & international broadcasts, print & online coverage subscriber based • Customised direct marketing campaigns
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Festival Properties & Opportunities
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• Principal Event Sponsors •Foundation Partners •Associate Sponsors •Partnerships •Supporters St. Patrick’s Festival offers a diverse range of sponsorship and partnership opportunities with tailored activation and leverage potential, the properties that follow are a selection of the many possibilities available.
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Festival Big Day Out
FREE family fun day featuring the cream of domestic & international street theatre, performance and music in the heart of vibrantly decorated Georgian Dublin, Merrion Square
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performances & activities programmed to appeal to a multi-generational audience from 10am-6pm. amazing • performances, fun workshops, au D I e n c e S c a n exPecT
quirky characters and lots of surprises!
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Opportunities for Principal Event Sponsor:
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people positive Irish message the Festival embodies
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opportunities
aPPrecIaTIon From ParenTS/guarDIanS
for educational and participatory elements of the event TV coverage of event in the Festival’s Highlights broadcast Leverage the Festival’s publicity and marketing campaigns
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Festival Parade The world’s most famous and spectacular parade sees Ireland’s leading professional pageant companies present intriguing vibrant, creations of scale that mesmerise the audience with their artistry and dramatic flair. marching ensembles from around the world enliven the streets of the capital with their magnificent musical mastery.
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Opportunities for Sponsor:
• 550,000 live audience of TV audience of • 395,000 on RTÉlive One 117,000 on RTÉ • Realplayer positive Irish • message the Festival embodies the • staging of Ireland’s most important exPoSure To a
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• and marketing campaigns publicity leverage The FeSTIval’S
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Festival Treasure Hunt where • participants descend en masse on a SPIrITeD Team evenT
the city to solve the conundrums that lay concealed in the many cultural venues and landmarks around Dublin
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approach, plot their route and strive to be the fastest home with all clues deciphered. TeamS Plan TheIr
opportunity for • all to explore or rediscover the city of
Opportunities for Principal Event Sponsor:
• 3,500 people & exposure to positive Irish • message the Festival embodies • placement positions around the city in the • Festival’s Highlightseventbroadcast a • memorable Free participative team DIrecT acceSS
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• and marketing campaigns publicity leverage The FeSTIval’S
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Dublin at Festival time.
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• dance on the streets
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of the capital at the Festival Céilí with lively encouragement from the stage by expert callers, dancers and musicians. free, • cultural event withparticipative, broad appeal a large Scale
from young professionals, to groups to family audiences all eager to engage.
Festival Céilí
Opportunities for Principal Event Sponsor:
• 7,000 people & exposure to over positive Irish • message the festival embodies • point of event is main focal and • sampling in the • Festival’s Highlightsevent broadcast • and marketing campaigns publicity DIrecT acceSS
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City Fusion Community Participation Project •
is the Festival’s intercultural arts participation project and is an award winning CSR venture, celebrating cultural diversity and promoting inclusion in the city of Dublin. cITy FuSIon
in • weekly workshops withparticipate professional cITy FuSIon grouPS
artists from January to March and work together to create a pageant for St. Patrick’s Festival Parade learning skills in making, performance and dance.
Opportunities for Principal Sponsor
• community focused CSR project as • the finale with ... DISTIncTIve mulTI-layer
large SPecTacle ShowcaSe
• Exposure to a live audience of 550,000 • Exposure to a live TV audience of 395,000 on RTÉ One • Exposure to over 117,000 on RTÉ RealPlayer
• potential with the project • & engagement with the CSR project • and marketing campaigns publicity DocumenTary & ProFIlIng
FacIlITaTeS STaFF volunTeerIng
leverage The FeSTIval’S
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• presenting large scale outdoorin The FeSTIval SPecIalISeS
Large Scale Spectacle Events
spectacle events that captivate audiences with their dramatic scale and visual impact at festival time. lighting, • pyrotechnics, street theatre shows From ProjecTIonS,
and aerial pieces the creative possibilities are infinite.
Opportunities for Sponsor exposure to • a large captivated, enthused DIrecT acceSS anD
audience
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SIgnIFIcanT branDIng, communIcaTIon and sampling potential at event site
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• and marketing campaigns publicity in the • Festival’s Highlightseventbroadcast • events leverage The FeSTIval’S
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• across online, digital and print
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Sponsor & Partner Benefits
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hospitality
tickets
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Contact details We would welcome the opportunity to meet with you to explore opportunities and tailored packages appropriate for your business. Please contact Corporate Engagement & Development Executive, Emily Barton. Contact Details: emily@stpatricksfestival.ie +353 (0)1 6763205 St. Patrick’s Festival St. Stephen’s Green House Earlsfort Terrace Dublin 2.