Features
Click on a feature to learn more about it and why it makes Festival Monster awesome!
[01] Lots of Space
Free Accounts
| Type | Photos | Videos |
| User | 50 | 2 |
| Group | 50 | 2 |
Advanced Accounts
Advanced accounts cost just £12.00 a year!
| Type | Photos | Videos |
| User | 250 | 10 |
| Group | 500 | 10 |
[02] Ajax Powered User Interface
- Pages load faster because you are only downloading the content each time rather than the entire page with graphics and other external files.
[03] Friends Feed
Keeping track of your friends can be hard, especially if you have hundreds of friends. The friends feed shows a list of the latest additions your friends have made to the site this lets you stay up to date with all of the latest events, photos, videos, blogs and songs your friends have been adding.
[04] Recommendation System
Part of the Festival Monster philosophy is discovery, finding new groups to enjoy as well as new friends with common interests and new events to attend. On most pages you will see a "Recommend Similar" button; this will produce a selection of items, similar to the page you are currently on that you may also like.
This system uses a neural network to take into account other items you like and what other people like.
[05] Access Control
You can control who has access to everything you put on the Festival Monster website. There are 4 different levels of access, public: everyone can access it, private: only you can access it, members: only friends you mark as being members can access it, ideal for group member information and VIP where only friends you have marked as VIP can access it. This is ideal for pre-releasing event information or photos/videos to your closest friends first.
[06] Tagging
Tagging is used throughout the Festival Monster website, users can tag each other content which makes it much easier to search and browse content by keywords. Clicking on a tag will show you other items that have been tagged with this keyword.
[07] Statistics
Built in statistics lets you see how popular your content is by unique visitors and returning visitors. This can give an indication of what your friends like most.
[08] Daily Charts
Charts show the most popular content on the site in the past 24 hour, providing you with an easy way to look at the best material on the site.
[09] Festival Listings
See the festival lineup and lastest festival news, also keep track of festivals from year to year so you can look back at who has played in the past.
Dynamic maps are also available for festivals so you can see how far away they are and also plan your route to get there!
[10] Festival Reviews
Read and write festival reviews. Rate festivals and see which festivals have the best ratings in various factors. Help spread the word about fantastic festivals and dish the dirt on those that disappoint.
[11] Copyright
You retain full copyright control of all content you upload to the website. We will never use your content for any reason without your permission and you have the ability to remove all data you’ve added to the website at anytime.
[12] Data Access
Your content belongs to you so we aim to make all data you add to the Festival Monster website freely accessible via APIs. This means you will be able to take data from the Festival Monster website and embed it in your own websites using RSS feeds.
[13] Embeddable Videos/Photos
Festival Monster provides you simple, copy and paste code that allows you to embed your photos and videos in other websites and forums. This makes it much easier for you to share your content with others as well as publicise yourselves.
[14] Widgets
[15] Festivals Attending
Mark which festivals you're attending so your friends can keep track of you. Also use the festivals attending widget on other websites or in forum signatures so people can see what festivals you're going to in the future.
[16] Gigs Attending
Mark which gigs you're attending so your friends can keep track of you. Also use the gigs attending widget on other websites or in forum signatures so people can see what gigs you're going to in the future.


