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The Secret to Increasing Audience Engagement in Special Events

Whether it’s a corporate conference, an educational seminar, or a festive gathering, the success of any event is deeply rooted in how well it captures and maintains an audience’s attention. 

But what truly makes an event memorable and impactful for its participants?

This blog will uncover the secrets behind skyrocketing audience engagement at special events. 

From leveraging event engagement technologies to incorporating interactive content, we’ll explore many strategies that go beyond the conventional approach. 

So, whether you’re planning your next big event or looking to enhance the experience of your current one, you’re in the right place to discover the keys to an engaged and captivated audience.

What is Audience Engagement, and Why Does it Matter?

Audience engagement is the cornerstone of any successful event, bridging passive attendance and active participation. 

But what does it mean to engage an audience? Let’s break it down.

The Essence of Audience Engagement

At its core, audience engagement refers to the attention, interest, and interaction participants have with an event. It’s about creating a two-way dialogue rather than a one-sided conversation. 

Engagement means your audience is not just listening, but they’re also reacting, interacting, and fully immersing themselves in the experience.

Why Does Audience Engagement Matter?

Engaging your audience is crucial for several reasons:

• Retention of Information: Engaged attendees are more likely to absorb and remember the information presented.
• Positive Event Experience: High engagement levels often translate to a more enjoyable and memorable event experience.
• Increased Participation: When attendees are engaged, they’re more likely to participate, ask questions, and contribute to discussions.
• Feedback and Improvement: Engaged audiences provide valuable feedback, helping you refine and improve future events.

As we move forward, remember that enhancing audience engagement is not a one-size-fits-all formula. It’s a dynamic, evolving aspect of event planning that requires creativity, adaptability, and a keen understanding of your audience’s needs and preferences. 

Audience Engagement Examples

In the following sections, we’ll explore strategies and ideas to enhance audience engagement, keeping these principles in mind.

Proven Strategies to Engage Your Audience

We understand that each event is unique, and so are its attendees. 

That’s why our focus is not just on generic tips but on real, actionable event engagement strategies that can be tailored to fit your specific vibe and objectives. 

Let’s dive in! 

Tailor Content to Your Audience

The key to engaging an audience lies in the relevance and relatability of your event’s content. To achieve this, start by understanding who your audience is. 

You can gather insights through pre-event surveys or by analyzing past events’ data, focusing on interests, job roles, and expectations. This preliminary research lays the groundwork for creating content that truly resonates with your attendees.

Creating Relevant & Relatable Content

When developing your content, focus on current and pertinent topics to your audience and industry. Including diverse perspectives by inviting speakers from varied backgrounds enriches your content, offering a broader range of insights. 

Incorporating real-world examples and case studies adds credibility and makes complex ideas more tangible and understandable.

Customizing Content Delivery

The way you deliver this content is equally important. A mix of formats – from keynote speeches to panel discussions and interactive workshops – caters to different learning preferences. 

Embedding interactive elements like polls or live demonstrations keeps the audience engaged and fosters a more dynamic interaction. 

Leveraging Audience Feedback

Be ready to make real-time adjustments based on audience feedback. Encouraging questions and discussions post-sessions provides immediate clarification and deepens the audience’s understanding of the topics. 

This flexible and responsive approach ensures that your event content is not just informative but also highly engaging and tailored to the needs of your audience.

Incorporate Interactive & Dynamic Presentation Styles

the style of your presentation is just as important as its content. Embracing interactive and dynamic approaches can transform your presentation from a passive experience into an engaging journey for your attendees.

Embrace Storytelling Techniques

Storytelling helps in creating an emotional connection with the audience, making the content more impactful. Here’s how to utilize real-life stories, anecdotes, or hypothetical scenarios that align with your audience’s experiences or challenges.

Leverage Diverse Media Formats

Incorporating various media forms like videos, animations, and graphic recordings can significantly enhance the visual appeal of your presentation. These elements break the monotony of text-heavy slides and help illustrate points more vividly.

• Graphic Recording: Graphic recording takes visual engagement to a new level. Live sketch artists translate spoken content into a real-time visual storyboard, capturing key messages and concepts in an illustrative and creative format. This not only adds a unique visual element to your presentation but also aids in better retention and understanding of the information by the audience.
• Infographics: Utilizing infographics helps in summarizing data, processes, or timelines in a visually appealing and easily understandable format. They are particularly effective in conveying statistics or step-by-step guides.
• Video & Animation: Integrating short video clips and animations provides a dynamic break in the presentation flow, re-engaging the audience’s attention. They can be used to explain concepts, tell a story, or provide visual examples.

The combination of these diverse media forms, especially with graphic recording, ensures that your presentation is informative, visually stimulating, and memorable. This approach caters to various learning styles and keeps your audience engaged throughout the event.

Engaging the Audience Directly

Direct engagement with the audience during the presentation can significantly boost their interest and participation. This can be achieved through live polls, interactive Q&A sessions, or real-time quizzes. 

These elements not only provide a break from the traditional presentation format but also allow you to gauge the audience’s understanding and opinions on the fly. Encourage audience participation by posing questions, asking for opinions, or involving them in decision-making processes related to the presentation content.

Modernize Event Experiences with Technology

Virtual & augmented reality.

While VR/AR can elevate event experiences, it’s important to note the significant investment they require. These technologies are not a one-size-fits-all solution. 

They are best suited for events like tradeshows and industry conferences where their immersive impact aligns with the event’s goals and budget.

Effective Uses of VR/AR:

• Virtual Tours: Ideal for showcasing venues or locations.
• Product Demos: Bring products to life interactively.
• Training Simulations: Offer hands-on experience in a safe, virtual environment.
• Interactive Exhibits: Enhance cultural events with engaging displays.
• Gamified Experiences: Add a fun element to the event.

In the right context, VR/AR can significantly boost engagement, offering unique and memorable experiences for attendees.

Interactive Event Apps & Social Media Integration

Incorporating interactive apps and social media in events can significantly boost engagement and offer a more connected experience. These platforms provide numerous functionalities to enhance interaction, information sharing, and participation.

Event Apps to Consider

Event apps like Whova and Eventbrite  can transform how attendees experience your event. 

Here are some key functionalities and use cases:

• Personalized Agendas: Allow attendees to tailor their schedules with tools like Sched or EventMobi, selecting sessions or activities they’re interested in.
• Networking and Communication: Apps like Bizzabo offer features for attendee messaging and meeting scheduling, encouraging networking.
• Real-Time Engagement: Platforms such as Slido or Aventri facilitate live polling, surveys, and Q&A sessions, making sessions interactive.
• Resource Center: Use the app as a one-stop-shop for all event materials, updates, and resources for easy attendee access.

Broaden Your Reach With Social Media

Leverage X (RIP Twitter) or Instagram for real-time updates, using hashtags to encourage attendee participation and content sharing. Run contests or challenges related to the event, engaging attendees before and during the event. You can also use Facebook Live or YouTube for streaming sessions, allowing remote participation and broadening your audience.

Distribute Wearable Technology

Wearable technology presents a unique opportunity to elevate the event experience. It not only adds a futuristic touch to your event but also significantly enhances attendee engagement, personalization, and operational efficiency.

Foster Networking & Interaction With Smart Badges & Wristbands

Devices like NFC-enabled badges or wristbands can facilitate networking by allowing attendees to exchange contact information with a simple tap. They can also be used for seamless check-ins and access control to different event areas.

Personalization and Data Collection

By analyzing the data collected from wearable devices, organizers can gain insights into attendee behaviors, session popularity, and overall engagement, helping to refine future event strategies.

How Wearable Technology Improves Event Efficiency

Wearables can expedite processes like registration, payment for services, and access to exclusive areas, reducing wait times and improving the overall attendee experience.

Encourage Audience Participation Through Interactive Sessions

To make your event truly engaging, it’s essential to encourage audience participation. This can be achieved by blending interactive sessions with opportunities for audience interaction and networking. 

Here’s how you can design your event to maximize participant engagement:

Host Interactive Sessions

• Dynamic Q&A Segments: Incorporate regular Q&A segments in your sessions. Using tools like Slido, attendees can submit questions in real-time, creating a two-way dialogue.
• Workshops and Hands-On Activities: Offer workshops that require active participation, like group projects or hands-on demonstrations. These sessions can be both informative and engaging, allowing attendees to apply what they learn.

Promote Audience Participation & Networking

• Open Mic and Sharing Sessions: Allocate time for attendees to share their experiences or insights, fostering a sense of community and collaboration.
• Networking Breaks: Designate specific times for networking, enabling attendees to connect with each other. Tools like Brella can help facilitate these connections by matching attendees based on shared interests.
• Interactive Challenges and Competitions: Host challenges related to your event theme to encourage participation. These can be gamified and include prizes to add an element of fun and competition.
• Social Media Interaction: Encourage attendees to engage with the event on social media platforms. Create event-specific hashtags, run live tweeting sessions, or set up photo booths with props related to the event theme.

Incorporate Graphic Recording For Maximized Engagement & Retention

Incorporating Graphic Recording into your event is more than just providing visual entertainment; it’s an effective tool to engage your audience in a deeper, more meaningful way. 

It not only enriches the experience but also ensures that the messages of your event have a lasting impact.

How Does Graphic Recording Work?

Graphic Recording is an engaging way to visually capture the essence of your event in real time. 

Here’s a quick overview of the process. 

• Preparation: A graphic recording artist collaborates with event organizers to understand key themes and messages.
• Live Illustration: During the event, a skilled sketch artist listens to discussions and presentations, translating key points into compelling visuals on a large canvas or digital tablet, visible to the audience.
• Audience Engagement: Attendees watch as ideas are transformed into a visual storyboard, enhancing understanding and engagement.
• Final Product: The visual summary is then digitized and shared post-event, serving as a memorable recap of the main discussions and insights.

How Does Graphic Recording Improve Event Experiences?

Here’s why Graphic Recording can be a game-changer for your event.

• Visual Summary: Graphic recording provides a visual summary of key points and ideas, making complex information more accessible and understandable.
• Increased Retention: The combination of visuals and text enhances memory retention, helping attendees recall and internalize the content long after the event.
• Engagement Booster: The process of seeing thoughts and discussions transformed into art live is captivating, keeping the audience engaged and interested.
• Post-Event Value: The visual artifacts created can be shared post-event, serving as a valuable resource for attendees to revisit and share with others.

Elevating Your Event Experience With The Sketch Effect

Remember, the secret to a successful event lies in how well you connect with and captivate your audience. 

With these strategies in hand, you’re well on your way to creating events that not only inspire and inform but also leave a lasting impression on every attendee. Interested in learning more about the power of visual storytelling through graphic recording? Talk to our team today to learn how we can help make your event experience the most memorable and meaningful yet. 

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The unofficial fan chants to learn ahead of Taylor Swift’s L.A. shows

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As Taylor Swift prepares to close the U.S. leg of her record-breaking stadium tour with a whopping six shows at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, fans are busy figuring out last-minute outfit details and transportation and logistics .

But do you know what to do once you’re at the concert? Audience participation has slowly made its way into the Eras tour, complete with inside jokes and various chants during Swift’s three-plus-hour-long set . Here’s an unofficial guide (in order of appearance on the setlist) to what the Swiftie fandom is doing that will make you feel right at home in the crowd.

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“ Fearless ”

When: The end of the bridge after she sings “It’s the first kiss, it’s flawless, really something / It’s fearless.”

What: Put your hands up in a heart.

Why: One of her earliest traditions that dates back to the Fearless tour in 2010 , Swift puts her hands up in a heart after she sings the bridge. Fans have been doing it back ever since.

“ You Belong With Me ”

When: After she sings, “I’m the one that makes you laugh, when you know you’re ’bout to cry.”

What: Clap your hands twice.

Why: It’s a part of the song. Swift and her dancers will do it with you!

“ Marjorie ”

When: When she starts singing “Marjorie.”

What: Turn on your phone’s flashlight.

Why: The song “Marjorie” is a tribute to Swift’s grandmother Marjorie Finlay, who was an opera singer. Fans surprised her and made her cry by lighting up the stadium with phone flashlights when she performed the emotional track during her second night in Atlanta , solidifying it as a tradition for the rest of the Eras tour.

“ Delicate ”

When: After she sings, “We can’t make any promises, now can we babe? But you can make me a drink.”

What: Shout, “1, 2, 3, let’s go b—!”

Why: This tradition was started by a fan who attended Swift’s Pasadena show in 2018 during her Reputation tour. Swift started doing the chant during her shows a few weeks later and later even thanked the fan for starting the tradition. It’s one of the loudest chants you’ll hear all night!

“ All Too Well (10 Minute Version) ”

When: While she sings, “And you were tossing me the car keys, ‘F— the patriarchy’ / Keychain on the ground.”

What: Sing along with “F— the patriarchy.”

Why: This song can be difficult to sing along to, given the sheer amount of lyrics, but this is one line you can confidently scream with everyone around you.

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When: Right before the start of the song.

What: Shout, “What time is it Taylor?”

Why: You might be the only one in your section to do this, but some fans have decided to ask Swift this question right before she starts singing “Style,” so that she’ll respond with the first word of the next song: “Midnight.”

“ Bad Blood ”

When: After she sings, “Band-aids don’t fix bullet holes, you say sorry just for show, if you live like that, you live with ghosts.”

What: Shout, “You forgive, you forget, but you never let it (pause) go!”

Why: A lesser known version of Swift’s song “Bad Blood” features rap verses by Kendrick Lamar. Although she doesn’t perform that version on tour, fans have decided to chime in with Lamar’s part during the song’s bridge. Just don’t forget to pause a beat before you say “go!”

“ Anti-Hero ”

When: After she sings, “Did you hear my covert narcissism disguised as altruism like some kind of congressman” while the background vocals sing, “Tale as old as time.”

What: Sing, “Taylor, you’ll be fine.”

Why: Fans sing producer Jack Antonoff’s part in the recording of “Anti-Hero” featuring his band, Bleachers.

“ Bejeweled ”

When: In between her singing “And by the way” and “I’m going out tonight.”

What: Shout, “Where are you going Taylor?”

Why: This tradition appears to have started with TikToker Tyler Conroy, who posted a video of himself shouting the words at Swift’s Houston show. Swift liked the TikTok, which led fans to declare this an official new chant.

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10 Audience Engagement Tools You Need to Know About

As life starts to open up, now is a great time to start focusing on attendee engagement in your live events. Developing ways to engage your audience and increase audience participation can give everyone the connection that they’ve been missing. And that is just as true of virtual and hybrid events as it is for in-person offerings.

Nowadays, you don’t need to rely on cheers and claps. Instead, you can use audience participation software to enable guests to interact with your event format. What’s more, free audience participation apps don’t require any investment in expensive hardware – attendees already have the technology required in their bags and pockets in the form of their phones and tablets. Read on to discover the best audience engagement tools that can help take your event to the next level.

1. Mentimeter

Mentimeter is a mobile voting app that lets you show the results live with real-time graphs and charts. Perfect for live, virtual, or hybrid events, it can be used for a wide range of events – from wine tasting and learning to paint, to gym classes and comedy nights. Able to handle over 30,000 votes per minute, it can work for small events or big ones. The app provides many different question/response formats such as multiple-choice, open-ended, rating scale, and word clouds. Plus, you can easily style it with your branding.

Glisser lets presenters share slides to the audience’s mobile devices during their presentation. In turn, audience members can like, comment on, or share those slides on their own social networks. Attendees can also download the slides for later reference or to share with colleagues back at the office. It means there’s no need for printed handouts, which in turn saves trees and is more convenient for attendees.

3. BuzzMaster

BuzzMaster is an audience interaction app with a difference – it comes with “BuzzMasters” AKA real people who moderate the audience responses in real time. The BuzzMasters are all journalists or experienced event managers who sort through the data to curate the most interesting comments and find your visitors’ best stories. They can also hit the audience with new, unexpected questions, helping to facilitate the session and create a buzz. This could be a great tool for events such as conferences or debates where you want to stimulate conversation.

4. Crowd Mics

Crowd Mics is an app that turns the audience’s phones into wireless microphones. This comes in particularly useful at forum-style events or those that usually need a roaming microphone. The app works in conjunction with an ATOM box that plugs into the venue’s wired network and sound system. Meanwhile, the moderator uses an iPad app interface to control who speaks. Crowd Mics also has comment and polling functionality.

5. Catchbox

Unlike the rest of the tools in this list, Catchbox is not an app, but a physical microphone. However, it’s no ordinary microphone – it’s the world’s first throwable wireless microphone. So, when you’re asking questions for audience participation, rather than having to pick your way through the crowd to reach them with a normal mic, you simply throw them the Catchbox. It engages participants in a fun game of catch, while also helping to create an informal, laid-back atmosphere.

6. QuickMobile

QuickMobile is a polling and feedback app that lets the audience vote, rate, or answer multiple-choice questions from their phones. As well as being able to create questions ahead of time, presenters can launch a poll on the spur of the moment, facilitating a truly interactive session and enabling them to tailor their presentations according to the audience’s response. And because it works on mobile, both in-person and virtual attendees can easily take part.

Rather than asking participants to use their phones to vote or answer multiple-choice questions, Angage equips them with individual voting keypads, making the selection process easier for a less tech-savvy audience. The easy-to-use keypads let participants respond to questions by selecting letters or numbers. The responses can then be displayed in real time, making it easy to gather opinions.

8. Engagenow

Engagenow lets you design attractive-looking polls and quizzes that empower the audience to interact with the big screen during an event. It can also be used to crowdsource questions or open up chat around the event in order to spark debate and connect audience members. This could come in handy at events that feature a debate, such as panel discussions.

9. eventScribe

The eventScribe mobile event app has a wide range of functions, including the ability for participants to ask questions, post comments, and connect with each other on a private social networking platform. Another interesting feature is the ability for attendees to access presentation slides, which they can annotate. They can then share their notes with other participants. The app also has social networking capabilities that enable participants to connect and communicate, which is a great way to foster relationships between a live and virtual audience.

Games are a great way to engage an audience, and LoQuiz lets you easily set up a variety of games and quizzes with an integrated question library. It can also help you stage bespoke treasure hunts, using photos or written clues to guide players. The app, which an appointed team leader operates on a tablet, uses GPS for outdoor positioning and a special clue system for indoor question mapping, making it suitable for events of all sizes.

Fully engage your audience

Moving to the future, focusing on engagement will become even more of a priority, with sustained engagement being particularly important. There are new areas to explore, such as hybrid events, which can help you reach a much wider audience – and using audience interaction platforms can bring virtual and in-person attendees together like never before. After all, if an attendee has been actively involved, they are far more likely to think the event was worthwhile.

To explore ways to better engage your virtual attendees, check out our virtual events platform .

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Why Are People Screaming 'Taylor, You'll Be Fine'? A Guide To All Of Taylor Swift's Eras Etiquette

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Going to see Taylor Swift live is a detailed event, so much planning goes into the tickets, the outfits, the friendship bracelets, and during the show Swifties have developed many traditions for various songs that are unique to a Taylor Swift show. While we may not know what the surprise songs will be on any given night, it’s been proven time and time again that these five moments will happen during an Eras Tour show. So, to make sure you are ready to sing along, we’ve compiled a list of all the Swift-centric etiquette you need to know before going to see the singer’s three-hour tour through her musical career. 

'Taylor You’ll Be Fine'

Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff have been collaborating for a long time, and us Swifties were in for a treat when the pop star released an alternative version of “Anti-Hero” with the well-known producer featured on it. Now, on the Eras Tour, one of the changes made to the lyrics in Antonoff’s version of Midnight's first single has become a tradition during the live performance.

In the version of “Anti-Hero” that Bleachers (aka Antonoff) is featured on , the lyrics are slightly different. Rather than her singing “tale as old as time,” her long-time collaborator sings “Taylor you’ll be fine,” which is how this tradition started:

Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism Like some kind of congressman? / Taylor, you'll be fine

So, when you go to see Swift live, and she’s walking around stage singing about being a “monster on a hill,” be ready to support her, and scream “Taylor you’ll be fine,” when the time comes.

'1, 2, 3 Let’s Go Bitch!' 

Probably the best-known, and most-loved, inside joke on the Eras Tour is the s creaming of “1, 2, 3 Let’s Go Bitch!” at the beginning of the song “Delicate.” It all started on the Reputation world tour when a fan screamed the line with the hopes of being noticed by Swift. Emily Valencia was at the Pasadena show in 2018, and after Swift sang the beginning of the song, she yelled:

We can’t make any promises now can we babe? But you can make me a drink / 1, 2, 3 Let’s go bitch!

It’s stuck ever since, and Swift is even in on it now, counting off the audience, and basking in the moment as the Swifties yell “1, 2, 3 Let’s go bitch!” before she gets into the wonderful song off Reputation . 

‘You Forgive, You Forget, But You Never Let It Go.’ 

Much like “Anti-Hero,” there is a version of “Bad Blood” that exists with a featured artist on it. During the 1989 era, Swift brought in Kendrick Lamar to rap on the single. During the bridge Swift sings:

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Bandaids don’t fix bullet holes, you say sorry just for show, if you live like that, you live with ghosts

Then in the background, you can hear Lamar rap:

You forgive, you forget, but you never let it go.

Hence the tour tradition that fans have been doing for years now. 

Lamar was one of many very famous folks to be involved with the song “Bad Blood,” as the music video also features tons of Swift’s A-List friends including her bestie Selena Gomez . The song was definitely a moment, so whenever it’s played live, fans make sure to pay homage to the rapper’s feature on the song. 

Clap During 'You Belong With Me'

This tradition dates back almost a decade, and it was originated on the Fearless tour. “ You Belong With Me ” was one of the biggest songs off that album (and is still one of Swift’s biggest songs), and it’s such a party when it’s performed live because everyone knows the words. So, during the live performance of the song the singer and her band would do a cheeky little double clap during the bridge. According to In The Know , this has been happening since Swift toured the album, and fans, Swift and her band have kept the tradition alive.

So, when you hear Swift sing this line, make sure you are ready to swiftly clap:

You’re the one who makes me laugh, when you know I’m about to cry [clap, clap]

This is a song that makes you want to stand up and jump around, and the little extra clap makes it all the more fun. So, make sure you are ready to participate when this throwback gets performed on the Eras Tour. 

Honorable Mention: Scream The Bridge Of 'Cruel Summer' At The Top Of Your Lungs

Taylor Swift loves a bridge, and so do the Swifties. It was quickly determined that one of the most iconic bridges of the singer’s recent work was in “ Cruel Summer ," and fans couldn’t wait to sing along to it at the Eras Tour. This bridge from the Lover track is so special that Swift even made an announcement before singing it, explaining that they’ve reached the first bridge of the night , before she sings and the audience screams: 

I'm drunk in the back of the car / And I cried like a baby coming home from the bar (oh) / Said, ‘I'm fine,’ but it wasn't true / I don't wanna keep secrets just to keep you / And I snuck in through the garden gate / Every night that summer just to seal my fate (oh) / And I screamed for whatever it's worth / ‘I love you,’ ain't that the worst thing you ever heard? / He looks up grinning like a devil

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Like many of Swift’s upcoming projects and re-recorded albums, fans have been waiting years to hear this song (and its bridge) live. So, when Taylor Swift asks if you are ready for it, you better be, because in my humble opinion, knowing the bridge to “Cruel Summer” is a signature sign that you’re a true Swiftie. 

While there are major moments during the show that Swifties freak out over, like her stage dive and viral “Bejeweled” dance , the parts of the show that get everyone stoked are these audience participation moments. So, if you managed to survive the Ticketmaster fiasco and already have your Eras outfit picked out, study up on these tips so you are ready to sing your heart out whenever Taylor Swift comes to your city. 

Riley Utley is the Weekend Editor at CinemaBlend. She has written for national publications as well as daily and alt-weekly newspapers in Spokane, Washington, Syracuse, New York and Charleston, South Carolina. She graduated with her master’s degree in arts journalism and communications from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. Since joining the CB team she has covered numerous TV shows and movies -- including her personal favorite shows  Ted Lasso  and  The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel . She also has followed and consistently written about everything from Taylor Swift to  Fire Country , and she's enjoyed every second of it.

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When you see another performer do their thing, do you watch how they handle the performance, and the audience?

I love doing that.

It’s the ultimate laboratory, and since we’re all in the business of engaging our audiences (that is what people hire us to do), there’s always something new to be learned.

I saw something really good at a national artist showcase recently…

(Jury-selected artists perform for an audience of venues and talent buyers.)

Most of them were pretty good; almost all were artistically satisfying in one way or another.

But one really stood out head and shoulders above the rest for me.

Here are my takeaways…..

1) Know Your Audience

Because this performer was in front of an older, “folky” audience, he knew that being friendly and approachable was a great way to relate, and yet, he was in total command of his show.

In other words, HE was clearly the master entertainer, and THEY were clearly the audience, but at the same time, he was one of them.

TAKEAWAY: Know who you’re performing for – ask ahead of time about the expected makeup of the audience, and confirm that information with your own two eyes before and during your set.

2) Own The Show

Not once did the performer refer to lyrics or notes he’d written to himself.

There was no “let’s see, what shall I do next? Oh, I know…”

3) Scan The Audience Throughout

The performer looked audience members in the eye, walked back and forth across the front of the stage, and generally checked in throughout his set.

For me, I like to have the house lights at least partially up when I perform so I can see faces and gauge reactions.

Do they look engaged?

Too serious?

Time for a fast song?

4) Get Them Involved

Again, this was a folk music audience, so they jumped right in at the chance to sing along. But the performer also had a question or two for the audience, and a call and response piece.

In my own experience, I haven’t met an audience yet – younger or older, music venue or library  – that doesn’t like to participate in some way in the show.

TAKEAWAY: Find ways to encourage participation in what you’re doing, whether that’s during some of your pieces, or in between, or both.

5) Self-Deprecate

Just before playing something really special and technically demanding, the performer made fun of his own lack of smarts in the song introduction. It lightened the mood and made him that much more relatable.

TAKEAWAY: This is certainly not for everyone, but consider how you might make yourself a bit vulnerable – or take yourself a bit less seriously – on stage.

6) Rivet Them With Something Exceptional

See the point above.

TAKEAWAY: If you have something technically brilliant that you can pull off – something that most of your audience would not be able to do – it’s one of your aces in the hole and should be placed strategically in your set.

7) Make ‘Em Laugh

There was plenty of that, with a song about our current American political situation, and some humorous stories between songs.

8) Speak To (and Expand on) Their Interests

The performer spoke of pioneering folk music figure Woody Guthrie – a musician of interest to lots of people in the room – but took it beyond the garden variety stories, relating Woody’s work to the entire ethos of folk music and the human condition.

It was powerful.

TAKEAWAY: Develop some great, authentic stories around something of interest to your audience (and you) – something to take them to the next place in their appreciation of that topic.

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9) Change Up The Mood

There was humor, there was serious music, there was singing along, there was activism and community empowerment, there was affirmation, there were slow songs and fast songs played on a variety of instruments.

All in the span of a 25-minute showcase.

Think about it – have you ever been wowed by the abilities of a virtuoso musician or dancer only to become completely bored twelve minutes into the event?

Too much of any one thing – however amazing it is – is just TOO much.

TAKEAWAY:  Variety is the spice of life. Look for ways to mix things up in your set.

10) Have Fun!

The performer was smiling, laughing, and generally enjoying himself on stage. What a difference that makes for the audience.

Sam Bush, one of my favorite musicians, seems to always be smiling on stage. It’s infectious.

TAKEAWAY: Learn how to portray a sense of fun, even when you’re struggling to find it yourself. Audiences feed off of it, and they can’t help but enjoy themselves when the performer is having such a good time.

11) Storytelling Skills

Slight pauses.

Changing dynamics to the voice.

Whispered sections.

A feeling that the performer was in total command of his narratives.

TAKEAWAY:  What you’re really doing on stage is communicating , so study the discipline of storytelling. Listen to great storytellers and how they pace their narratives. This will pay off in spades.

12) Stagecraft

There was lots of subtle performance craft going on – the kinds of things you probably wouldn’t even notice unless you were looking for them.

A raised picking hand at the end of a song. Physical gestures to encourage singing. A turn of the body to signify a shift in mood.

A well orchestrated bow, with guitar outstretched, at the end of the set.

Wrapping Up

I’m guessing that for most of the people who witnessed this showcase performance, they weren’t focused on the principles I’ve outlined above.

In fact, it’s likely that little or none of this dawned on them at all, and instead, they simply thought “that was great,” or “he’s marvelous,” or “I loved that song about …”

And that’s our goal! We don’t do any of these things so people will notice them – we do them in an effort to truly engage and connect with our audiences.

To be the best performers we can be.

I hope you’ll be giving a few of these concepts a try, and do let me know what else you would add to the list.

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67 Responses to How to Engage an Audience at a Concert

Thank you very much this was helpful and just amazing ,I’m going to put it to practice in my up coming concert .

Everything you said there is 180 degrees from what I see on other sites, Kids saying they hate it when a performer “performs” They say that they only came to hear the songs that are played. – I have been on stage since I was 8 years old in 1954 and I say theses kids are totally out in left field (to put it politely)

I don’t care where you play or (or otherwise perform) people do not go to HEAR live music. They come to SEE live music. Have you ever heard anyone say = “I went to HEAR (name of act) and boy were they good! If all the people wanted to do was to hear a bunch of songs the owners don’t need to pay a live act. All they have to do i put in a juke box. (And they get even get paid to do it) You are there to entertain the crown (And be a whiskey salesman)

Trust me. great musicians that is are shoe gazers that spend 10 minutes between songs tuning guitars and deciding what to play next, or even plays a 45 minute medley of songs with no time at all between songs cannot hold a candle to a mediocre musician that is an ENTERTAINER that makes the audience laugh and sing along and dance.. It’s the difference between an ACT and just a bunch of people with instruments playing in the corner. . If people have a good time they will be back if they find out you are performing at the place again,,,,The same people will go out of their way to SEE you Perform will not cross the street to HEAR the other guys if thet have to make a choice between you..

Dave, All the points you made are gospel and the kiddies that say they are not,,,,,are well,…. Just a bunch of sophomoric kiddies showing there are individuals by being exactly like everybody else..

Great points to consider, thank you. I most often play (vocal/guitar) at restaurants, and I am shy to begin with – so I do struggle regularly with whether or not to speak between songs. The diners are dining and conversing – it seems rude for me to interrupt. 🙂 Years of experience (and tips) do tell me that they are listening, it”s just not a concert situation. But even as a background musician, I can employ your insights to subtly make an impact. And many of the comments also held gems. Cheers

This is really a great article. I love the. examples you use, and then the take-aways. Thank you

Glad it was helpful!

Violinist Johnny Frigo stole the show with his antics. Right out of vaudeville. Acted like he had stage fright. peering behind the curtain. Told funny stories. Very memorable stage presence.

Yes, that’s what we try to do with our band. We play 55 plus communities here in Arizona, and I spend lots of time in the audience. We do Jailhouse Rock by Elvis, I put on a cheezy Elvis wig and sunglasses, and during the song I go out with my wireless microphone and put on my best Elvis moves during the song, including Elvis’s famous windmill ending. I am constantly trying to connect, exert plenty of energy, smile, dance, and make every song unique i some way. We play Wipe Out and I play the guitar between my legs, over my back and I lay on the ground and kick my feet up, and the crowd usually goes wild! We were doing such a great job absolutely blowing away our audiences with interaction that I have had multiple offers to play New Year Eve, so many that I have had to turn many of them down. I’m here to say that this advice works very well. I have incorporated lots of these, and am looking to do even more in the future. Thanks again Dave for you awesome advice! It works!

I absolutely love it when it’s time to get on stage and that’s when the magic begins. I’m a musician and performer so this fits perfectly into my routine and category of entertainment. I don’t expect every person in the building to concentrate on me, but when the audience begins to get involved, that’s when the real magic begins.

Keep them engaged and you’ll find that they will either follow you or stop attending your shows. It is what it is and all the sizzle will either fizzle or get a much needed spark to get the juices flowing once again.

After the music performance event is over, I always ask the audience to leave their thoughts at the ballot box with a one word or a brief sentence on how the artist / group did? Would you tell your friends and family about who you saw and heard on stage.

It’s then that the magic was there and it’s also a pleasure to know that these people were entertained for the evening or if it was a dud!

It helps to know who your audience is whether they’re 21, 41 or 61. Each audience is different and it gets even tougher when the crowd is mixed with different age groups. That alone is one of the greater challenges of the music business.

Thanks Dave. I have used each and every technique and much more. A great musician or great singer does not always make you memorable. There is a great deal more becoming a great entertainer. Not everyone has that skill or nerve to banter, use the whole stage and much more. Many entertainers have stage fright like Elvis or Cher. Stage presence begins when you enter the building or room, not when you get on stage. You must be memorable to the audience and stagewear is critical in my opinion. You need to be bold and stand out in any crowded room. Your permitted to be bold and stand out. Be the best dressed person in the building. Turning heads is important but with no ego. I do not get nervous getting up on stage because all eyes are on me when I enter the room. People should be turning heads and asking who is that in that outfit until they start recognizing you when you walk in. You need to own the room when you enter and be nice and inviting with everyone you meet. Create your own image and stay away from dirty jeans and a t-shirt. Audiences need all of their senses working and visual is very important. People will always comment that they saw a great show last night. Never, they heard a great show. Don’t forget great footwear. Your on stage and people see your feet. I create my own character and I am very memorable with my audiences. The bands wearing jeans and t-shirts are forgettable for the most part. Your outfits should turn heads. Give people the impression that you know your stuff before you get on stage. Then get on stage and prove it. Perception is a powerful tool, so take advantage and create a look that suits your material and stand out. All eyes will be on you when you actually step on stage. The expectation that something great is going to happen.

I love this. I have lots to think about. I play in a duo that plays coffee house often and everyone is buried in their laptops. I’m flattered when they take their earbuds out! But I also know I tend to stop talking during those gigs. It’s a challenge . Suggestions?

Brilliant article! I am a live performance and audience engagement coach and agree whole-heartedly with each point you brought forward. I believe people attend concerts to ‘feel’ something and be transported for a little while. That said, with the bombardment of social media and cell phones, audiences have the attention span of fruit flies and musicians are challenged more than ever before to keep folks engaged for the length of a song. When musicians understand that their job is not to just sing – but to sing while consistently delivering an unforgettable performance – they are on track to sustain a career. People buy their merch and come back to their concerts so they can ‘feel’ that way again.

I couldn’t agree more that preparation and planning are key. So is preparing for the performance. Heaven knows a quarterback doesn’t hit the field without warming up his arm and memorizing his plays. Musicians need to take themselves just as seriously. In addition to the invaluable tips you shared, I’d like to add a few. 1) Learn mic technique for singing and talking; 2) acknowledge the audience with an audible and genuine ‘thank you’ when they clap at the end of a song; 3) use props on stage to change up the mood – eg: sit on a stool for a well placed personal song; learn how to use a mic stand; change your stance and shift positions regularly; 4). Come out from behind the mic stand to remove barriers between you and the audience and plan to come in front of the monitors at some point during the concert. 5). You must be in the moment to create moments. In other words, the better prepared you are, the more you can be present. If you’re thinking on stage, you aren’t in the moment. Many thanks for your blog!

Thank you so much for these great contributions, Rhea. I concur 100% with all five of your additions to the list. Great to have you as a reader and please feel free to jump into the comments whenever the spirit moves you.

I’d prefer an amazingly MUSICALLY skilled, shabbily-dressed, fat, bald performer who stares at a fixed point on the ceiling for an entire show and mumbles incoherently between songs, to a hundred sharp-suited bands with great hair, killer mic stand moves, incandescent teeth and that familiar dead-inside, slightly-flat delivery. But I might be a little unconventional.

LOL…too funny Tim! Then you can almost sit at home with your eyes closed and a headset on listening to your favorite artist! An exceptional, all around performer can do both visually & musically! It’s a show! These suggestions are to improve your stage performance for an audience who appreciates the whole experience of live music. Thank you Dave and followers who comment!

Yes, but it’s also funny how strongly we rate the visual, isn’t it? There are only so many hours in a day – why spend an hour on stage banter when you could develop better pitch? It’s interesting to make a comparison with sportspeople – they are notoriously bad in interviews and their appearance both on and off the field doesn’t usually mean much compared to their skills at the thing they are reallythere to do. By contrast, audiences expect a much higher level of polish from musicians. By listening to/paying for only the slick performers, we miss the potentially stunning music of dorks.

In my experience, it’s ALL important, Tim. Nobody is suggesting “slick” at the expense of quality artistry. Regarding your sports analogy, I would suggest it is not just the skill of the players that draws in viewers – it’s the competition aspect. Remove that and I’m not sure how many wildly entertained fans you’d have.

Of course you’re right Dave, and I should point out what I left unsaid before for the sake of brevity – I really appreciate your thoughtful articles and advice on these topics! I was reading the article because I want to improve my own stage presence, after all.

An interesting and thought-provoking thread… I agree with Tim in several points. Interestingly, when I am really paying attention and intensely into the music, I often close my eyes to better hear the nuances and subtleties of what is happening. Some people are aural learners, most are visual learners I think.

On the other hand, when the performers (I hesitate to say ‘musicians”) are putting on a show, running jumping, thrashing around with guitars at half mast or being used as phallic symbols, I don’t feel the need to close my eyes…because there are no subtle nuances happening. Not saying one is better or worse than the other…both just approaches to keeping the audience “engaged”, and probably the energetic ones will be more successful monetarily because the people are usually there to be entertained and could care less about the intellectual and emotional content of the music.

A great musician/performer/entertainer can cross over that barrier and bring tears or laughter to members of the audience…if they are in a conducive environment and paying attention.

In my opinion, one first has to decide whether he/she is a musician or an entertainer, or a performer…and that requires some deep personal introspection. And sometimes you end up emphasizing one aspect or a different one depending on the venue, the needs of the client, the audience…and whether or not it is a full moon, etc. All of which brings up another point of consideration,

If you are capable of successfully adjusting to the various situations outlined, your fans may be sometimes confused, not knowing for sure who or what you are going to be on any given night. An argument can be made for picking one theme and staying with it. That of course is why bands often break up when musical sensibilities feel stifled doing the same thing over and over and individual members want to go in another direction.

Sooo…If you are a sideman, be a chameleon, blending in with the image you are part of. If the spotlight is on you, you better know who you are and then act accordingly. Not necessarily an easy thing to accomplish. The point to make here is that it takes a tremendous amount of self discipline…to be who you really are! Does that constitute artistic endeavor? Hmmmm An interesting and thought-provoking thread, for sure…

Dave, thank you for your super well-thought out tips for professional musicians. Just the right info for where I am in my professional work.

I have performed extensively in Papua New Guinea, Australia, and Tanzania- in the 1990’s and 2000’s. Now a f/t music therapist playing and singing all day, I am starting to get back to gigging. Music therapy playing is very different from polished playing to a paying venue or audience. I am super excited to make a partial living gigging, and it is humbling. I have no music to sell and no media presence as of yet.

Any thoughts you have to inspire me?

I appreciate your street cred and dedication to reviving historic music!

Hey Suzan! I wish you all the best. Pretty much ALL the thoughts I have that might (or might not) inspire you are contained on this blog, with over 70 articles I’ve written to date. I welcome your comments and questions on any and all of the articles.

Thanks so much for this article Dave I am the singer songwriter for a three piece rock band and only have a couple of shows under my belt as such. This is my first attempt at being the lead guy and is a huge step outside the box for me so all your insite is greatly appreciated.

Carl Henry CBD

Glad this was helpful Carl. Best of luck with the band.

Thank you for the insightful Takeaways. I will stick them in my book of cues to remember. i love performing and the more I do it, the better I am at it in terms of the reciprocal exchange. This summer is my solo summer where I am challenging myself. I play the Celtic harp and sing — jazz standards, trad music celtic and American, cultural music when it fits. Memorization is huge for me as a challenge. The harp is not a guitar. 34 strings and accidentals you need to remember. But as said, the more time in the saddle the easier, more comfortable it gets. Thank you for your wisdom and keen observance of the performer life and pursuance. Debra

Keep us posted Debra!

This could be my all-time favorite Dave Ruch article… so informative and SO VERY important. Although I’ve always had an understanding that an artist needs to connect with his audience on more than “just” a musical level, this article breaks it down and spells it out so nicely. I’ve put these things into practice, and they WORK. I often have venue owners or managers say things like, “I love how you talk to the audience between songs… most guys just sit there and go through their list” -or- “It’s great that you give us little tidbits of info about the songs you sing”. I would only add that it also doesn’t hurt to “dress up” a bit… in my opinion, jeans and a t-shirt don’t cut it in most settings… I do the restaurant/supper club circuit, and I think patrons (and management), appreciate a well-dressed performer.

Dress is a very important consideration, Tom. Thanks for inserting that into the discussion!

I actually feel insulted by a poor appearance– esp. if I’ve paid big money for a ticket. But even a free performance deserves a natty appearance to show the performer values his own contribution to the event. I always try to dress up one step from my audience– except for my shoes. I still wear gym shoes for comfort after standing for 1+ hours. Thanks for a great post.

Unfortunately As Pianist, I often DO NOT face the audience as most Assisted Living homes use Upright pianos. I follow many of your interaction tips and they work, but I do need possibly to turn around more often between songs.

John, let us know if you experiment with it and what your results are.

This write up was amazing loved that you touch on an aspect that people truly dont think about. I like that you noted the performer was a solo performer. Not to take away from bands at all but solo performers (seasoned ones) usually do have this command that you describe. I think being on the stage alone you naturally want to connect with your audience because you are up there alone so you will tell stories describe the songs etc

But this was an excellent read with great points discussed as well as tons of useful advice!

Thanks Dave.

My pleasure.

Excellent observations and points of interest. I have been performing 40 years and watch very closely myself the details. The movements to different parts of the stage….sitting, standing, the “banter” between the artist and audience. There aren’t many performers that just “know” how to do this. Most were taught or at least guided. I will take your advice in regards to studying storytelling! All the best to you and thank you!

Glad it was useful Sue!

I enjoyed reading “How to Engage an Audience at a Concert”. I learned a lot from it. Thanks, Michael Speregen

Hello I’m a ventriloquist I was working with ALZHEIMER’S RESIDENTS until I STOOD UP FOR MYSELF and called Osha on them. Then everything kept building up to the end my little folks were happy and we sag all kinds of music one lady said her teeth gonna fall out I have decided that I will go on adventu re to other Assisted livings and this will be my first performance they gonna pay me 100.00 for 3 performances 40 minutes long I’m gonna do Christmas song with few stories how many songs do you thing I need to do for the3 groups at 40 minutes a spot my name is Tammy I have puppet,and ventriloquist doll Danny I sent Ellen Degenerous a youtub trying to win 10,000.00 you can check me out I would like your opinion since this is my first time out .I miss my Residents so much they want even allow me to come back to visit .Life goes on but I hear them in my head and heart and think about Ms.P taking her teeth out she reminded men of my granny HOPE you have a great Thanksgiving .Look forward in your response. Tammy. Not sure where you will respond to so I want put Facebook on here or contact 😁

Hi Tammy – I think it depends entirely on how long the songs are and how much talking you do within and between them. Sometimes for me six or seven songs can easily go 40-45 minutes because I do a lot of interacting with the audience while I’m singing. If you’re just singing straight songs and not talking much between them, you might need as many as 15 songs.

I have been told many times that I almost always smile when I am performing. I don’t think it is something I developed on purpose, but now that I am aware of it, I definitely notice that the more I seem to be enjoying myself on stage, the more positive reaction, and more importantly, audience interaction I get. I try to study my audience, and figure out which ones might want some special attention, and which ones would rather just blend in with the rest of the audience. Then I work on the ones that want attention. It might be something as subtle as a quick smile or a nod, a special mention about them, something they are wearing, drinking, eating, etc, all the way up to calling them up on stage if that is appropriate. Things like that can turn a potential heckler into an asset by getting them on your side, giving them what they wanted in the first place (attention) and shows the rest of the audience that you are still in control, yet approachable. Plus it helps draw in the rest of the audience because they want to see what is going to happen next. I have even pulled people into a venue by paying attention to them through an open window or door as they were passing by, resulting in a huge bar and dinner tab for the club, and several new signups to my mailing list!

One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever been given and have never forgotten: “Always leave ’em wanting more”

Very glad to hear that Robert, thanks.

Thank you, Dave – this is a valuable post about a topic which isn’t discussed enough. Your checklist for engaging an audience acts as a very helpful reference guide. And, of course, it’s always beneficial to be aware of pitfalls that can be avoided.

Great article. Regarding #6, I once heard this piece of advice that supposedly dates back to the days of vaudeville – “if you want to have a great act, then you have to do something in the first 30 seconds that no one in the audience can do”. I try to do that, but it usually happens farther on than 30 seconds (I guess that those vaudeville audiences were pretty rough).

I think you’re right about those vaudeville audiences Rusty. They knew another (potentially better) act was just around the corner if they didn’t like yours.

The 30 second rule could still apply in certain performance situations, too. Busking comes to mind (where it’s probably more like 4 seconds).

It’s beyond annoying when the lyrics of a song are unintelligible. Why would an artist spend hours and hours writing and memorizing lyrics and then throw away their time on stage by not caring if the words are or are not cleanly delivered? I see this so often. Sometimes the blurred words are rendered understandable through fine tuning of the sound system, but the singer has to take 100% responsibility. As for talking between tunes: singing voices are usually louder than speaking voices, so the artist has to SPEAK UP, stay absolutely glued to the mic, and remember that he or she is talking to a crowd where a normal conversational voice is totally inadequate.

Thanks for jumping in here Jonathan. So true!

Great advice as usually, I look forward to each of your wonderful emails!

Thanks Lou!

Dave, I appreciate your post. A couple of other things I have noticed (mostly from watching actors) is that what you do with your eyes is incredibly important (and even needful to remember when you are blinded by stage lighting) because of the subtleties of expression they communicate to the audience and how they can direct the attention of the audience. When and how you look away is every bit as important as when and how you look to them (as individuals or as a group) because it is a sbtle way of bringing them all on to the same page–your page.

A second point–silent space (read “pacing”) is every bit as important as “noisy” space as when you are talking, singing, reciting, breathing heavily (Darth Vadr) or lightly (Michael Jackson?), or humming or rapping during your performance. David Lough is an excellent example of this usage of “silent space”. His name brings up another thought. He’s not real good looking for sure, but his use of silence and of his eyes makes him a riveting performer/actor because…it all works together …for him! We each must develop our own style that is uniquely ours. That includes voice timbre and range and pitch, body shape, age, physical activity, etc. and etc. because all of it communicates SOMETHING to the audience. It’s up to us to make it say what we want it to say.

Couldn’t have said it any better Lonnie – thanks so much for this.

Love this article! It’s very helpful and concise. Makes it even sound easy to incorporate some well-crafted stage techniques 😉

Try, try, and try again Rebecca – that’s all we can do.

Thanks again. Always appreciate your kind and experienced advice!

Glad to do it Glenn

Once again, Dave, you have introduced a great topic to think about. Variety is key in engaging audiences. Participation is certainly enjoyed by everyone whether before, during or after. And being heard is very important otherwise, you might as well stay home. My pet peeve is performers who mumble away from the mic or into the mic, or lower the voice at the end of their sentences so the words drop off into oblivion. The key is to lower the tone but not the volumn of your voice…like theatre actors. Especially important are key words that the audience needs to hear…make sure the audience will here them either by pausing, effectively enunciating, slowing down your words, etc… For example, there is a humour story that I tell that has a punchline at the end …”the train is coming”. I’ve learned that if I say this too fast, the audience has difficulty understanding the words so I’ve learned to pause and say them a bit louder and slower…then I get the laugh I want. Sorry, may have gone a bit off topic!

Yes, Yes, a thousand times YES! This is really important, and not off topic at all. Enunciation and delivery are critical, and careful attention to how your speaking lines are “landing” is key. Thanks Cindy.

Great article Dave! Sometimes if a venue doesn’t have a sound person, it helps to ask the audience after the first song, if they can hear everything ok. I’ve sat through what I was expecting to be a great show, only to be disappointed that the vocals were buried under a too-loud guitar. Too bad the performer never thought to ask!

This is so important Nina, thanks for adding that. How many times have you played a whole set of music, only to have an audience member come up afterwards and say “hey, we can’t hear the guitar (or whatever)”

Dave, this article (how to engage an audience) couldn’t have come at a better time. My musical partner and I are headed down to Memphis in January to perform at the International Blues Challenge. Although I’ve been performing for better than 20 years it’s never to late to learn something new or to hear what you might already know to remind you or get you thinking about these aspects of performance. Thanks

Glad to hear the timing was right, Doug. Best of luck with the showcase/competition.

Very apriciated!

Remember that your singing voice is probably louder than your speaking voice, so when chatting to audience between tunes, get close to the mic and speak up! Very annoying to not properly hear a performer’s stories or whatever……..Nobody wants to hear something like: “When I was in Murphtooshman we sent a brooogh to the first hooshingtamm in the slankting smoooootink”

Thank you for your words of wisdom. You might do a piece on Get Your Sound Right Those who do their own sound seldom get the balance or volume right.Groups are notorious for this, but even solo performers need to be reminded that proper mix is important.

Thanks for the good suggestion Chuck!

I, too would like to see something on this… I have been on both ends of the self-managing sound thing and it is frustrating when you can’t get that mix right… I think an article on this could be helpful to many.

Also, could you talk about how to bring other musicians into the act to “spice” it up and also give interest?

Thanks for all you bring to us Dave,

As a musician, entertainer and Toastmaster for many years, I completely agree with your twelve “Takeaways.” They are right-on! Thanks for sharing your secrets for entertaining.

Great to hear Robert! What else would you add to the list?

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18 Ways to Increase Audience Engagement at Your Event

You’d think that event attendees would be completely immersed in the shenanigans going on around them…

But attention spans are short and social media is full of cute kittens and delicious food. Oh, and did you hear what Trump just tweeted?

Anyway…where were we?

Oh yeah, ways to increase event engagement.

If you want people to stay focused, you need a few solid audience engagement strategies in place.

In this guide, we’ll cover 18 tips for increasing audience engagement that you can mix and match as you please. Use all of them before, during, and after the event for maximum impact.

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How to increase audience participation before an event

It’s important to engage with your audience before the event. It’ll help you sell more tickets. Active audience participation in the run-up to the event will be a great addition to your marketing.

1. Publish blog posts

Blog about everything that has to do with your event, including the venue, the speakers, the entertainment, the food, and so on. Link to your blog from your event landing page to boost traffic.

Tip: Use this guide on how to create an event blog and create a buzz around your event.

2. Create an event hashtag

Create an event hashtag and encourage everyone to use it when they tweet, comment, or post about your event. It will keep all social media posts in one space for everyone to see.

Tip: This guide explains how to create the ideal event hashtag that is easy to remember.

3. Design a table and seating plan

Look at the floor plan for the venue and think about where people will stand and sit. Design it in a way that encourages conversation, networking, and engagement with the event programme .

Tip: Read this article on how to design a table and seating plan that encourages interaction.

4. Leverage influencers online

Team up with an influencer in your industry who can help you reach more people prior to the event. Even better, invite them along to the event so they update their following live and direct.

Tip: Find influencers in your niche using different influencer marketing tools .

5. Book compelling speakers or performers

All conferences need good speakers that the attendees will love. But even if your event is not traditionally set up for live performances, a few good acts can spice things up.

Tip: There are booking websites for keynote speakers to use for your event.

6. Know your audience

The more you know about your attendees, the better you’ll be able to create an engaging event programme that encourages audience participation. Don’t leave anything to chance.

Tip: We’ve put together a guide that explains how to understand your target audience better. 

7. Run a giveaway contest

Social media giveaways a great way to spread awareness and sell tickets. Not only that, but they also allow your audience to contribute user-generated media prior to your event.

Tip: Read our guide on how to run social media ticket giveaways for inspiration.

8. Research audience engagement tools

There are a number of apps that will assist you with live polling, sharing media, and gaining audience insights during the event. Find out which ones could benefit you the most.

Tip: Here is a list of 11 audience participation tools you should consider using.

How to increase audience participation during an event

During the event, you have the attendees where you want them. Let’s look at how to engage attendees at an event to keep everyone’s eyeballs on the action.

1. Make it entertaining or informative

The number one rule in content marketing is that it has to be fun or interesting…or both. The same goes for your event content. Make sure that you grab and maintain people’s attention.

Tip: This guide explains how to make a serious event more fun (just don’t use it for funerals).

2. Run live polls

The speaking sessions will be more interactive if you integrate a live poll. Let the audience vote on things related to the talk or performance.

Tip: Here are 30 live poll question ideas you can try to keep attendees engaged.

3. Set up a competition

In addition to the giveaway contests before the event, you can also run crowd engagement games on the day. Give out prizes to the winners and host a small award ceremony.

Tip: U se our guide on how to organise an awards show to help you out.

4. Use an event app

Event apps are industry standard, but not all apps are created equal. Make sure your event app encourages attendees to like or comment on the different aspects of the event programme.

Tip: We’ve put together a list of the best event apps to give you a quick overview.

5. Update the socials

Keep everyone in the loop by updating the social media accounts for your event. Make sure you use the hashtag and ask attendees to comment on and share your updates.

Tip: Use this guide on the best social media practices during an event to help you out.

6. Host an afterparty

If your attendees have been sitting in on talks or watched performances all day, give them time to shine. Organise an afterparty or networking lunch where they can interact.

Tip: Learn how to organise a successful afterparty so everything runs smoothly. 

7. Host a Q&A

Question and answer sessions are a great way to engage the audience. If they’ve seen an interesting speaker, they will no doubt have questions they’d like to ask.

Tip: Read about how to plan an engaging Q&A session so everyone gets the most out of it.

How to increase audience participation after an event

Audience engagement shouldn’t stop just because the event is over. Now is the time to ask for feedback, so you can plan for your next event and make it even more awesome.

1. Send out a survey

Questions always drive engagement, so make sure you send out a post-event survey . Not only will attendees feel more valued, but you’ll also gain useful insights for your next event.

Tip: We’ve put together a list of event survey tools you can use for free. 

2. Thank everyone

If you’ve hosted a small event, then a “thank you” email or letter might be more appropriate. A personalised note will let the attendees know that you appreciated their company.

Tip: Read about how to write a heartfelt thank you note to your attendees after the event.

3. Share highlights

You should’ve captured as many moments as possible on camera during the event. Share them on social media, use the event hashtag, and ask people to share their own highlights.

Tip: Here’s a guide that explains how to shoot a highlight reel for your event.

You’ve now got your arsenal packed with audience engagement strategies. Make sure that anyone looking at their phone is looking at your event updates and nothing else.

Drop us a comment below to let us know how you get on—and feel free to share any tips we might’ve missed!

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11 Fun Ways to Engage an Audience at Your Next Presentation

by whova | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog , Event Engagement , Event Planning , Event Tech |

Becoming a TED Talk speaker with millions of views on YouTube may not be one of your end goals, but keeping audiences interested throughout your conference presentation can help you build your career, get more recognition, and connect with influencers in your industry. 

And, of course, when you see your audiences gain insight from your knowledge and experiences, or learn more about your products or achievements from your conference speech, you will be proud of yourself. 

To keep audiences engaged, it’s not enough to have interesting talking points. You need to use every resource available to you. These days you can leverage audience engagement tools to set yourself apart from those traditional speakers who just go through presentation slides they prepared. With that in mind, here are 11 fun ways to engage an audience before, during, and after an event.

Before the Event

Understand your audience.

Let’s assume that you are a successful entrepreneur giving a talk at a university. If your audience is a group of sophomore students who know nothing about startups, you may not want to talk about how to raise funds with venture capitalists. Similarly, you may not need to explain the definition of ‘Minimum Viable Product’ to an audience from an entrepreneurship center at the university.

It’s important to always research the audience of the event however you can, and use the information (industry, demographics, interests, backgrounds, etc) to tailor your talk and visual aid.

How do I learn about my audience?

Ask the event organizer for attendee demographics and any other information they are able to share. If you have access to audience engagement tools, search the attendee profiles by keywords or industry for a more comprehensive view. With Whova, speakers can even see exactly which attendees will be going to their talks!

Start Interacting with Attendees Early on

Make some interactions with attendees at the conference before your speaking time. This will help you understand your audience, get people more interested in your talk, and also build your professional network. The audience will be more engaged if they know the person who is speaking, and they may even encourage their friends to attend your session.

How can I interact with the attendees?

See if the event has a central communication place like a public bulletin board or group either in social media, the event website, or their audience engagement tools. Some audience engagement apps are ideal for this. 

For example, in Whova’s Community Board , any event participants can create a custom conversation topic or initiate social gatherings. There, you can start a relevant discussion to your session and encourage attendees to post questions. Taking it one step further, you can organize a post-session meetup or coffee chat. 

Promote Your Talk via Social Media

Start to create buzz on social media before an event. This can build your standing as an industry expert, and may even help you arrange for engagements at other events or get career opportunities in the future. If attendees look you up beforehand, they’ll be able to learn more about your involvement with the event. Not to mention the event organizers will be appreciative that you helped spread the word. 

What is an effective way to promote my session on social media?

Start with a tweet about your upcoming speaking engagement with a link to the event website, ideally the speaker webpage with your session and bio . To visually engage people, add your photo, event logo, or an image related to your session topic. Some event websites or audience engagement apps provide a social sharing button that makes it easy to post your session in a beautiful design, so don’t miss out on this kind of feature. 

Share Interesting Articles 

To engage the audience before the event begins, share interesting articles about the industry or topic you’ll be covering. You can also share a short video, news, controversial discussions, blogs, publications, or some of your other achievements. These will give the audience some background information on you or the topic of your speech and may get more people interested in your talk. 

How can I share interesting articles with the audience?

You would need to know how to reach your audience. It can be a good idea to include a few web links into your session abstract or post on social media with an event hashtag. But if your event app has a feature like the Community Board or Article Sharing , that will be the perfect place. Attendees will enjoy reading your articles while traveling to an event venue or during a coffee break so they can get ready to participate in your session.

During the Event

Give a strong opener.

If you want your audience to be engaged during your presentation , you need to start with an attention-grabbing intro. 

How can I start strong?

Think outside the box. It’s not just about giving a joke, a personal anecdote, or interesting analogy. In this video , TED curator Chris Anderson offers fun ways to engage an audience, which include: 

• Limiting your talk to just one major idea
• Giving your audience a reason to care
• Stirring your audience’s curiosity
• Using concepts that your audience already understands
• Focusing on the ultimate benefits of your idea
• Thinking about how to hook people 

Lead with Questions

Today’s audience wants their voice to be heard — they don’t want to just sit around quietly. Stir your audience’s curiosity by asking inspiring and thought-provoking questions. And give them a chance to share their ideas. That way your session can be interactive, dynamic, and interesting. 

How can I increase audience participation and make my session more interactive?

If you’re speaking for a large group, or you predict no one will be willing to answer you out loud, try using a live polling feature on an event app . When connected to a screen or projector, you can show the results instantly to the entire crowd. Try asking questions like:

• How have you been influenced by Dr. Gunther’s work?
• What were your experiences using a tool similar to the one I’m presenting?
• What is your preferred method in solving this issue? How effective is this method?

Have a Post-Session Meet-up or Coffee Chat 

Leaving immediately after your session will squash any excitement you may have created during your speech, and you can’t trust that attendees will find you on their own later. But meeting with as many attendees as possible is hugely important for both you and them. One of those attendees could be a potential mentor, employer, partner, or colleague, so it’s not an opportunity you want to skip. It can be worthwhile to arrange a post-presentation meetup — that could be coffee, a drink at the hotel bar or dinner. 

How can I organize a casual meet-up or lunch meeting?

Ask those who come up to you to meet somewhere later, or, if you plan ahead, use an event app to promote your discussion meetup. For example, if you’re using Whova, you can use the “Meet-ups” to post the time and place to connect people who share your interests. Want to be more casual? Create a group for a morning run or a city tour! People like spontaneous and fun group gatherings after daytime sessions. 

Interact with Other Speakers

If speakers are at the same event as you, it’s likely you’ll have common interests or similar backgrounds to some other speakers. Connect with other speakers (especially those in the same industry or who spoke on a panel with you) and take advantage of the opportunity to grow your network.

How can I connect with other speakers?

If you aren’t sure how to track down a fellow speaker in person, find them on LinkedIn. Some conference apps , like Whova, allows you to send them a message. Likely, they’ll appreciate that you reached out and are interested in connecting, and you never know how this connection could come in handy in the future.

With Whova, you can easily organize a Meet-up with speakers who share commonalities with you. Arrange to meet for coffee or lunch during the event if possible, and exchange e-business cards and connect digitally via the event app. What’s more, as a speaker, you have access to an exclusive Speaker Hub on the Whova event app. This personalized experience includes a VIP chatroom with the speakers from the event, allowing you to easily get in touch with other presenters in real time.

After the Event

Engage and share with attendees.

Keep the conversation going after the event ends by sharing slides or follow-up information for attendees. Stay open to questions from the audience. This may help encourage the attendees to seek you out in the future for further collaboration, or even future speaking gigs. 

How can I stay engaged?

Continue to utilize social media, the event app, and also your event organizers. If you exchanged contacts with some of your audience or had an interesting discussion, it’s a good idea to follow up with them. 

Collect Feedback

You may want to reflect on what you have tried and how helpful it was to engage attendees. Ask yourself whether a majority of the attendees got interested and excited about your talk, if they understood your key points, how many people you could connect with or had interesting conversations with, etc. To improve yourself, you can also get some feedback from attendees or organizers. 

How can I get feedback?

You can directly ask your audience in person or through an event app, but if your organizers run a survey or collect per-session rates from the audience, ask them to share it with you. 

Personal Wrap-Up

If you had a personal goal to achieve through the event (e.g. increasing awareness of your business, recruiting, finding a collaborator or connecting with other experts), you can come up with your next action items based on what was your goal and what you got from the event.

For example, you may want to update your website and social media pages with any photos from the event, or quotes from attendees. Search through the event hashtag , as well as your social mentions to see if any attendees posted about your session and if so, respond to them to show appreciation. Connect with any new contacts, and encourage them to follow your blog or your social media profiles.

Increase Engagement with Audience Engagement Tools

Remember that event technology is evolving, which means there are (and continue to be) new ways to increase audience participation. Audience engagement apps with live polling, a community board, QA, article sharing, and Meet-ups is just one of many examples. 

By leveraging modern and fun ways to engage an audience,you will impress and inspire more attendees — not only with your awesome talk but with interactions before, during and after your session. 

If you liked this article, please share this on social media and tag your fellow speakers and event organizers!

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A voice rings through the rapid drum percussion: "70% of you came to watch something dangerous." The Blue Man Group are dare devils of experimental art and they certainly know what their fans are interested in. They know we want to experience the quirky antics of The Drumbone and get wet by paint in the Splash Zone. We desire to explore the world of the Blue Men because it's an exhilarating rush of joy and an escape from the outside world.

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Even if you have never been to a Blue Man Group show, you might be familiar with them. There are multiple Blue Man Groups worldwide; the most well-known one has a residency is Las Vegas. As part of this year's tour, The Blue Man Group, featuring Meridian, Mike Brown , Steven Wendt, and Adam Zuick, stops at the Kennedy Center with a speculator new show with some old thrills and new tricks.

The Blue Man Group's world is full of energetic musical numbers, which is amplified by a futuristic set of TV monitors and screens displaying sound waves, designed by Jason Ardizzone-West . This is a high-tech production with beautifully designed lighting by Jen Schriever and SFX design by Bill Swartz. In contrast to its futuristic atmosphere, there are subtle hints of nostalgia like a TV showing Pong or images of the Space Race throughout the show. Musical interludes highlight percussion that is out of this world. The show's epic backing band, led by band captain Corky Gainsford, features Chris Reiss on the strings and drummer Chris Schultz grooving along with The Blue Men. The ambient sounds are just as delightful as the hypnotic drum beats, especially the sounds resonating from a reel-like stringed instrument.

Along with some new music, there is no shortage of creative skits, and everyone is in for a good time. Kids love the zaniness and adults relish the aesthetic. Audience participation is a huge part of The Blue Man Group and this new show's format keeps the immersive experience that both new fans will love and dedicated fans expect. There are still marshmallows, PVC pipes, and lots of paint. The Blue Man Group does not say a word during the show, but as always, they make connections with their audience through humor and art. With this show, it is difficult to pinpoint specific audience favorites because there are so many moments of laughter and just pure joy. Let's just say that they involve rocking rubber chickens, an audience mixtape, and a spontaneous wedding.

Whether you have seen The Blue Man Group before or are going for the first time, you don't want to miss out on this otherworldly experience.

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The Yellow Jacket Activity Board rented out a theatre for students to watch Taylor Swift’s newest concert film, “Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” Oct. 20, leading some with mixed feelings regarding the experience of the film compared to the live performance.   

The nearly three-hour film is a virtual way to experience Swift’s latest tour that has taken over the world.    

The movie runs through all of Swift’s different albums, or as Swiftie’s call them, “eras.”    

Unlike other movies, people in the audience were encouraged to dress up as if they were attending the real concert, including singing and dancing in the theater so long as they are stay mindful of other patrons.   

Katie Colabianchi, a senior English and education student, said she thinks it was a good substitution for seeing the show live, especially with sky-high prices of the live concert.   

Tickets for the live concert were extremely difficult to obtain with Ticketmaster’s verified fan system, and the tickets sold through resellers for the United States leg were upwards of $1000 for nose-bleed seats. In comparison, the tickets for the movie are priced at around $20.    

Colabianchi also said that she enjoyed seeing the movie, and that it felt very authentic and personal to her.   

One student, Brooke Walburn, a senior creative writing student, saw the live performance and the film and said that seeing the performance live was “unforgettable” because it was her first-ever concert.    

“The crowd’s energy was also really fun to be a part of,” Walburn said.   

While the film encourages participants to mimic the high energy through singing and dancing in the theater, fans took to social media to debate the level of involvement that was appropriate.   

Colabianchi said that when she only watched the film from her seat, some people got up to dance and sing, which, she said was still a fun part of the experience.   

During the YJAB student viewing of the film, Walburn said the attendees had fun doing some of the concert chants during the film; however, she said that she believes it is important to remember that other people are in the building.   

“I don’t mind the singing and stuff,” Walburn said. “But I think it’s important to remember that there are other movies being screened in the theaters next to the ones with the ‘Eras Tour’ playing, and it might be rude to be screaming.”   

Taylor Perdue, a junior exercise science student, said that they should have multiple showings, some for people who want to sing and dance, and others for those who want to sit and watch.    

Perdue, like Walburn, has seen the show live. He has not seen it in theaters yet but does plan on seeing it to compare the experience with that of the live concert.   

“I’m excited for the ‘Eras Tour’ movie,” Perdue said, “I like that she made the tour into a movie.”   

There are some notable differences between the movie and the live show. For instance, some songs were cut from the set list so the movie would not be too long. But some students, such as Colabianchi, said the almost three-hour long film was overkill.   

“If I were at the concert, it would seem like it would go by much quicker,” Colabianchi said. “But because you’re sitting down, you’re not fully engaged with it as an audience member, so it seemed a little long.”   

Some students who were able to see both the live show and movie also noticed some differences between them. Walburn said that watching the movie was “almost like a different experience,” and said she noticed things that she would not have been able to see from her seat.   

“I had no idea how much of a story the dancers were telling until I got to see it close up,” Walburn said.    

Compared to Swift’s previous film, the “1989 World Tour,” the new film offers only the edited performances instead of the more documentary style features such behind-the-scenes footage and clips of her and her friends talking about everything that went into the show.    

“I wish the movie was more of a documentary. I would have liked to see the behind-the-scenes,” Perdue said. 

“Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour” is available to watch in theaters now.    

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Audience Participation

Dr. Frank-N-Furter: I see you shiver with antici... Audience: SAY IT! SAY IT! SAY IT! Dr. Frank-N-Furter ...pation. — Callback for The Rocky Horror Picture Show

• Taking part in a public vote which influences the show.
• Contacting a show and commenting on a topic, or making song requests.
• Inviting audience members on-stage, or having the cast or presenters go into the Studio Audience .
• Interviewing audience members, or calling someone up to play a game.

A Super-Trope to Official Fan-Submitted Content , which is when Audience Participation is used to turn fanon into canon; Audience Participation Song , which is when this trope is used in—what else—a song ; Fake Interactivity , which is when this will have no effect whether the audience chooses to participate or not; and Interactive Comic , which is when a comic is reliant on this trope. A regular feature of Pantomime .

Usually involves Breaking the Fourth Wall , but if it is done very often that you think the work relies on Audience Participation, then there is No Fourth Wall to begin with. Depending on the audience, this can lead to the Subversion, Audience Participation Failure .

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• Ron Popeil's infomercials for Showtime Rotisseries had the catchphrase "Set it and forget it!" which the audience would shout on command.
• AMC Theaters' We Make Movies Better ad spawned this thanks to its campy , melodramatic tone, with audiences reciting Nicole Kidman 's dialogue and even saluting the screen when the line "somehow, heartbreak feels good in a place like this" came up. AMC not only kept the ad in theaters for far longer than they intended to because of the audience reaction, they recorded a sequel.
• Attack on Titan : King Fritz of Eldia rounds up a village after a pig escapes from his livestock. After he threatens to punish the village collectively unless the responsible party comes first, the village unanimously and immediately blame Ymir . It is implied Ymir is not even responsible but the others simply exploited for her kindness and passiveness.
• Ever since the movie for Yes! Pretty Cure 5 , the Pretty Cure movies have had the Miracle Lights, basic flashlight-like toys that are given to the audience (mostly the kids and sometimes older patrons) to use. The movies always start out by telling them what the Miracle Lights are for and what not to do with them (shine them in your eyes, pull on another's Light, swing them around, and, in the case of the Fresh Pretty Cure! movie, launch them into space). They're used near the very end of each movie, the mascots urging the children to shine the lights and give the heroines their movie-only Super Mode to save the day.
• The Best 10 movies consisted of the top 10 performances in the series, which was chosen by audience vote through a ticket sold with the Greatest Hits Album soundtracks.
• King of Prism uses a lot of audience participation; not even The Musical is free from this. Glowsticks are sold at every screening, and some parts of the films have captions on the screen for audiences to respond appropriately. This is especially apparent during the Prism Jumps where the film has the characters interact with the audience. There are also official cheer guides to the songs performed.
• Monster Musume has added several main cast members based on reader votes on what type of monster girls should show up next. Recently, Okayado has had fans send in self-portraits along with what type of monster girls they'd like to be paired up with for various cameo appearances.
• Gundam Build Fighters had a contest for three custom made units to show up in the anime. There was a kitbash model unit, a kitbash unit from New Gundam Breaker and a custom color unit. The winners were "Zssa Storm" (a kitbashed Zssa from Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ ), "Benkei" and a red and white Deathscythe.
• The sequel series Gundam Build Fighters Try had a contest where fans could vote on which obscure (read: not from an animated series) mobile suit they wanted to see put in an appearance; the winner was the Xi Gundam from the novel Shining Hathaway , which showed up during the free-for-all battle in the final episode.
• A central component of the Love Live! franchise. Many elements and aspects of the series are decided solely by reader polls. These include the names of the groups and subunits, subunit compositions, song centers for major singles, names for certain characters and setpieces like the schools, and more.
• 3000 Whys of Blue Cat : The viewers have sent questions to the studio that have been used for later episodes of the show.
• Jim Gaffigan is known to do something similar to this; while not actually having the audience participate, but anticipating what they're probably thinking. You can tell he's doing this when he does a Stage Whisper . "Is he going to whisper to himself after every joke?"
• Jeff Dunham also will answer questions from the audience using Walter.
• Ross Noble 's entire act will be based primarily around the audience's action in the first few minutes, as well as the surroundings of the theater at the time. You are guaranteed to never see the same show twice, and it's triply funny if you see it live.
• About half of Dara Ó Briain 's act consists of him talking to select audience members.
• Promoters pay attention: even if a comic at your venue is on this list, or is especially good at audience back-and-forth, please do not advertise in a way that encourages hecklers .
• Tim Minchin has also played with this trope on occasion.
• Bill Dana was a fixture at San Francisco's comedy club the Hungry i, and in an audience Q&A session (which was recorded for the album Jose Jiminez, First Man In Space ): Audience member: Why do they call this place the Hungry i? Dana: Has anyone given you any food since you've been here?
• Mitch Benn 's show Don't Fear the Reaper opens with a parody of that very song (originally performed on The Now Show ). Before this begins, as he's getting onto the stage, he hands a cowbell to someone in the front row with the words "You'll know what to do." (He says on one occasion this has gone wrong : "Never heard the song, never seen a cowbell before.")
• Robin Williams would often go out into the audience during his standup and riff on the people he encountered or the things he saw.
• This is the shtick of Insult Comics such as the late Don Rickles and Lisa Lampanelli . If you don't want to be offended, avoid the front row.
• Batman featured what is known as the most infamous example of this trope (at least in comics): a phone poll to decide if Jason Todd would be killed by the Joker's bomb in Batman: A Death in the Family . He lost by 72 votes out of a total of 10,614 cast, and proceeded to perish, not returning until the events of Under the Hood (although he was Retconned into Batman: Hush in 2003 when Under the Hood established that the graveyard scene had Batman initially fighting the real Jason Todd before Jason fled partway through the battle and was replaced by Clayface assuming his form.)
• The 1980s version of Dial H for Hero that ran in Adventure Comics and New Adventures of Superboy encouraged readers to mail suggestions for superheroes Chris King and Vicki Grant could turn into using their H-Dials as well as villains that they'd fight, including some more mundane submissions such as what clothing they'd wear or what furniture would be in their homes. Harlan Ellison notably submitted a proposal for a villain called the Silver Fog.
• In the lead up to the Hellfire Gala yearly one-shots, fans are asked to vote for one of six mutants to join the X-Men for its yearly change ups. For the 2021 event, Polaris won the event. In 2022, it was Firestar. 2023 changed things up massively: to kick off the Fall of X era, the people being voted in were already chosen to be X-Men. The winner of the vote was instead the Sole Survivor of Orchis' initial attack. That winner was the Juggernaut .
• In the lead up to The Fall of the Mutants , fans were encourage to send in mutant registration card, creating a bio and mutant power for their character and the person would debut in an issue of The New Mutants , though they would, instead, appear in X-Factor .
• Despite FanFiction.Net outright forbidding this type of fic on their site, these are still quite popular and there are quite a few uploaded there. The most popular being truth or dare fics. (Where the audience makes outrageous dares the characters have to carry out.)
• The author, cuttingmoon57 , once had a poll where fans can decide the size of the katana Luso would get in The Tainted Grimoire .
• Another author, ithinkabouttrees, has a Percy Jackson and the Olympians fanfiction called Annabeth Chase Versus the Internet, where fans not only give suggestions on what kind of internet based shenanigans the gang runs into, but are encouraged by the author to do so. The comments to last week's chapter may give clues to what might be coming in next week's, depending on which ideas the authors decides to use.
• FanFiction.Net writer Mrfipp put up contests for reviewers so they can decide which summon is up next in his Kingdom Hearts fanfic.
• After changing Catra's reaction to the First Ones' virus to acting like an actual cat, Monokub ran a poll about whether the virus' second appearance should do the same thing, or make her act drunk like Adora in canon. Drunk won.
• For the dream world at the end of Season 3, he allowed fans to write their own flashback scenes.
• Code Geass: Paladins of Voltron : The author has posted two polls so far, the first of which was to ask who, if any, of the other paladins, would get Geass, and the other to ask if they should give their lions special names beside their colors. Turns out, they were happy with all of them getting Geass . There was also a review based poll to determine who would end up with who in this story. Based on the tags the story has on Archive of Our Own , the final pairings are Lelouch and Kallen, Rai and Shirley, Rivalz and Milly, and Suzaku and Euphemia .
• Some chapters let you choose both the transformation and the character, or the transformation instead of the characters.
• In Mass Effect: Human Revolution , SpaceBattles.com -based readers were invited by the author to choose the party members that would go with Adam down to Noveria, as well as which two of the three tasks Adam would undertake in preparation for going after Elsa Devereaux.
• In Opening Dangerous Gates , the author allows the fans to vote on which Bleach characters get summoned to the Fairy Tail universe.
• In the Imageboards site for Touhou Project , most if not all fan-works operate on a multiple-choice (and the occasional write-in) format to influence the direction of the story and the actions of the lead character, Being Meiling and its sequels being one work page example from the site.
• In In This World and the Next Robst held a poll to decide what would happen to Ron Weasley.
• Used regularly in A Dream . If the author likes an idea, theory, or joke put forth by one of the fans, he'll incorporate it into future chapters.
• Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) ran competitions for who among the fans would get guest spots, as well as a full Mad Libs contest.
• My Huntsman Academia is a "Quest Fic" that places readers into the shoes of Izuku Midoriya and encourages them to vote on how he's going to spend his time, whether it's hanging out with his friends, training, or his strategies in combat with GURPS as a basis.
• Vendetta543 runs a lot of polls for An Arc for every season . Most of them help to dictate major outcomes in the series and, of course, the "romantic couple" of choice. He also used it to determine, which "omake" of the series make next.
• Star Wars vs Warhammer 40K : Prior to the release of Episode 39, the author held a YouTube poll where he asked "Which one of these men is the shiniest hidden gem currently serving the Republic?" The choices were Octavian Grant, Terrinald Screed, Nial Declann, and Gilad Pellaeon, all of whom are Star Wars Legends characters who served in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars. Pellaeon, being the most recognizable and well-known of the four, predictably won the overwhelming majority of votes while Screed came in at a distant second place. After this poll, Pellaeon and Screed would appear as POV characters in Episode 39 where they are each commanding one of Kuat Drive Yards' Mandator II -class star dreadnaughts against Battlefleet Xek-Tek in a big Space Battle .
• The Web of The Spider-Man is written by the same author as My Huntsman Academia and operates under similar logic.
• Occam Razor (responsible for Yu-Gi-Oh! The Thousand Year Door and Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Messiah among others) frequently approached his audience (on a site called The Pokemasters Forum, not FF.net) for character and card submissions, often including them as a Contest Winner Cameo . This ended after he was banned from Pokemasters for various reasons (because, as mentioned above, FF.net doesn't allow this sort of thing).
• It's not just anime that gets this treatment: several Bollywood films, The Greatest Showman , Bohemian Rhapsody , Shin Godzilla , Godzilla Minus One , and Avengers: Endgame also got cheering screenings.
• Sing-along showings of Frozen , in which people are freely able to sing-along to the catchy tunes without feeling like they're trying to stop themselves from singing aloud. Disney would later do similar screenings with Moana , Beauty and the Beast (2017) , Frozen II , and Encanto .
• Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation has a small segment at the end where the Care Bears directly ask the audience to chant "I care!" along with them to save a girl cursed by dark magic.
• No joke, some showings of Shrek had live audiences following the instructions of the guards holding the placards in the climatic wedding scene ("Applause", "Laugh", "Awwwwwwwww").
• Rocky's sequel Shock Treatment has had shadowcast productions as well, though due to the larger cast and comparative obscurity they're not as plentiful as Rocky Horror . This is invoked In-Universe as well-the entire movie takes place in a TV studio, where the audience (hinted to be the entire population of Denton) regularly sings along with the music and responds to cue cards. Not to mention that the plot started when Brad and Janet were plucked from the audience to participate in a game show.
• The Blues Brothers involves this in Australia, specifically the Valhalla theater in Melbourne (until it closed down in 2003), where the audience lovingly recite the dialogue, dress up as their favorite characters, throw items such as white bread, newspaper and stuffed animals at the screen, and dance in the aisles to the movie's soundtrack.
• Repo! The Genetic Opera shadowcasts run on audience participation. The show encourages audience members to stand up and sing during certain key songs (We Started This Op'ra Shit!) or to wave/throw certain props (such as blue glow-sticks for Zydrate containers) at other key moments. The show also has a number of call-backs delivered in the Mystery Science Theater 3000 tradition. Which makes a particular callback fairly obvious, given that the first words shown in the film are "In the not too distant future."
• Anyone who has ever been to a movie theater in India can testify that this is the whole point in watching a Bollywood movie.
• The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure encouraged the viewers to dance and sing at its screenings.
• What's Up, Tiger Lily? , Woody Allen 's Gag Dub film of a Japanese spy flick, has the hero suddenly ask the audience to believe really hard in restoring bullets to his gun, a parody of the Peter Pan stage play.
• Xanadu at one time had people in the audience shadowcasting the performance during the song "Dancin'", where the song deviates between big band and rock.
• Philadelphia has been trying to make an Audience Participation version of 1776 happen — props (including flies to throw at the screen ) and all. It's as painfully nerdy as it sounds.
• Help! : The film has been called "The Rocky Horror Beatles Show" at some conventions (most notably Beatlefest Chicago), where screenings are frequently interrupted by audience members counting the number of times John dials the phone and handing out sticks of Wrigley's spearmint gum during the "Paul on the Floor" segment.
• During production of Revenge of the Sith , Lucasfilm created four paint schemes for Obi-Wan's new astromech droid (which has maybe a minute of screentime) and had fans vote for their favorite at starwars.com. The shiny-bronze-all-over design won.
• Isaac Asimov 's Asimov's Book of Facts : The book has a letter from Dr Asimov, requesting that readers send in their facts for the next volume of Isaac Asimov's Book of Facts .
• The Thursday Next series plays with this in the first book, The Eyre Affair . Thursday and Landen attend a long-running production of Richard III which involves cast members being drawn from the audience, shouted call-and-response from the audience, and pun-based props . Audience: WHEN is the winter of our discontent!? Richard III: [ hammily ] Now is the winter of our discontent, [ audience cheers ] made glorious summer by this son of York [audience don sunglasses] ...
• In the Rainbow Magic series, readers voted on Mia the Bridesmaid Fairy and Juliet the Valentine Fairy's names.
• The Vampire Files : In The Dark Sleep , Bobbi's stage performance as Shanghai Lil is prefaced by her costar staggering around the nightclub, apparently drunk, and asking the clientele if anyone has seen his girl Lil.
• Warrior Cats occasionally holds polls on the official site for the fandom to make decisions. This has included polls about which character should be featured in an upcoming story or book, which dust jacket color or audiobook narrator they prefer, which cats they'd like to be made into plushies, and names of characters including a protagonist's warrior name.
• On occasion, shows might let audience members play an Audience Game , usually for small amounts of cash or prizes, if they have time left at the end of the show or if the game ends earlier than usual.
• Bruce Forsyth , who's presented several such gameshows including the British remake of The Price Is Right , has collected several call-and-response catchphrases over his many, many, many years in showbiz. He tends to keep them going even when he moves on from the show, so they're now so well known in the UK you could probably use them to catch out foreign spies. His most famous one: "Nice to see you, to see you...", to which the audience would respond with "NICE!"
• The CBS Match Game had audience participation of a different sort. Some questions like "Dumb Dora was so dumb..." prompted the audience to call back "How dumb was she?" (this first started on the panel then progressed into the audience). Audiences booing bad answers were a mainstay as well. They also had audience participation of the normal kind where they would poll studio audiences for the Audience Match segment of the Bonus Round . Both of these were carried over when the show was revived on ABC with Alec Baldwin .
• Pak De Poen De Show Van 1 Miljoen also had audience participation of a different kind. There was a number panel on the front of the screen. If the audience member had the same number as the one that was shown on the panel, they would win the grand prize of 20 million BF. To put this in perspective you only need to know that the winner of the show can maximally win 1.05 million BF.
• Your Number's Up, a short-lived show on NBC from 1985, had audience members coming to the stage when the last four digits of their phone number showed up on the game board display. They stood behind the contestant they thought would win the game and won a prize if they were right.
• Many competition shows have or have had a audience vote feature, as part of the show at some point. (usually done through texting or more recently an app option). How much this affects the show depends on... well, the show.
• American Idol : Audience votes for their favorite to stay in. (exception for this would be the "audition" episodes).
• Big Brother . Most nations have this as something the viewing public does via a phone line; the US version had it for the first season, but switched over to an internal system among the contestants for later seasons. they sometimes still have some audience vote feature in the US version in some form. by getting resources (One example is season 23 had BB bucks, that you could save for a casino style games that can affect the nomination) even though it's currently house voting. USA Celebrity Big Brother (not sure if the celebrity version is its own show or not) season 3 had people vote for a contestant to have an extra prize (of cash). And had a 'officially' unplanned vote for the winner if there was a tie in the jury. because a contested left unexpectedly outside the nomination, and did not come for the jury.
• Dancing with the Stars currently (as of April 2022) has half Judge vote, half audience vote. This is a weird one as the voting is only open during the East Coast and Central Time zone broadcast and is closed after the final commercial break of that broadcast. The official response to this is for Western Time zone people to vote based on last week's episode.(which is why the first episode has no elimination in recent seasons.) Making it a weird example of a redemption not mattering due to some of the voters not seen the most recent episode. The two people who have the least combined score. has the judges decide which one of them goes. (The rules for this gets a little fuzzy for Double Elimination nights.)
• Until the lawyers told them to stop, there were Rocky Horror -style showings of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Musical Episode " Once More, with Feeling ", with props for the audience, shadow casts, and audiences shouting things like "Shut up, Dawn!".
• Community had audience participation of the voting variety. Fans designed their own Greendale flags and then voted for one to become official, the winning one was introduced in " Basic Rocket Science " and the voting was written into the plot as having been done by Greendale students.
• Audience members at the reunion special got to vote for which male and female contestant that they wanted to return in Endurance 2. The contestant votes counted as individual votes while audience vote only counted as 1 per gender though Max and Jenna, whom received the most support from the audience, still got chosen to return.
• The fireball mission from Endurance 2 was brought back in Tehachapi after being voted as the favorite Endurance mission in a fan contest.
• Garrett and Kelsey of Hawaii along with Will and Leslie of Fiji got their initial spots on the show due to being voted in from fans from a selection of other hopefuls.
• Star Trek features an In-Universe use of this trope: a Klingon Opera audience knows all the songs, and any member might get called on to play any part at any time.
• The cast of Whose Line Is It Anyway? gets their improv suggestions from the audience. And will even pull some of the audience into the scene on the fly.
• Sports Nation is built around audience participation via the polls in which the audience votes on ESPN's SportsNation website, for which the show was named.
• In one episode of Call My Bluff , Barry Cryer gets the audience involved in his definition, much to the astonishment of Sandi Toksvig: Sandi : I can't believe you got Audience Participation from this lot. I always thought they were just a Laugh Track !
• The Doctor Oz Show : Dr. Oz likes to get his audience involved. At least one lucky member gets to be the "assistant of the day", and sometimes the front row or even the whole studio gets in on something. (Heaven help you if it's a new dance!)
• Hot Seat with Wally George had tons of it. Wally would often hold Q&As with audience members, or invite them to grill (or heckle) the guests. They'd wave signs in support of Wally (or, on occasion, his guests). Most memorably, they helped out with the ticket plug; when it came time to recite the final phone number, Wally would shout out "NINE NINE NINE!", and the audience would respond "FIVE THOUSAND!".
• Studio3 was a quirky between-shows program for Australia's kids' channel ABC 3 . As such, it included a lot of audience participation, such as chances for kids to be part of the show by sending in videos, photos, or popping up on the show's webcam.
• Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight has Audience Participation to the hilt. The audience are asked to fill in a questionaire before the show begins and Hills uses the answers in the show, including calling specific people out. The show sometimes revisits past audience members in later shows, such an Anglican minister who willingly adopted the title "The Church Of The Latter Day Geek" for her own church (much to Hill's surprise).
• One Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch ("The Cannibal Undertaker") was so offensive, the audience rushed the stage in protest. Actually, the BBC wouldn't let the guys do the sketch without some sort of negative consequences, so they went all out; the audience participation was what allowed the sketch to air. In fact, if you watch the scene, you'll notice that two of the people leading the charge are Terry Gilliam and scriptwriter Ian Davidson.
• This was how That '70s Show was originally going to have its title decided. The audience for the test screening were to choose between the two Working Titles , ''Teenage Wasteland'' and ''The Kids Are Alright'' . But the audience came out of the test screening referring to it as "that 70's show" and the name stuck .
• If none of the panelists on QI know the answer, Stephen Fry will sometimes ask the audience—and with several hundred people in, usually some of them do know. The audience have thus won several episodes, as the panelists themselves tend to score in the negatives. There are also episodes where special guests are invited in and they sit in the audience for the show. On one episode, a member of the audience came onto the stage with flapjacks when Alan Davis complained of being hungry. It hasn't always gone well for the audience however: On a couple of occasions they've been deliberately baited into The Klaxon , and indeed in the episode 'Kit and Kaboodle' the audience actually came last!
• Mystery Science Theater 3000 , when it premiered on Syfy , had a home game of sorts where people on the network's website would riff World Without End while it played live. Two versions were made, at 4 pm and 11 pm.
• "Doubt," a 2004 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit , featured a "he said/she said" rape trial that ended with no announced verdict. An online poll was held and a majority of respondents found the defendant not guilty.
• The Carol Burnett Show would start off with star Carol Burnett coming out on stage, and after greeting the studio audience and TV viewers, she would answer questions from members of the audience.
• The Nightly Show : In the first episode, host Larry Wilmore encouraged audience members to cheer or boo when they think a guest is or isn't "keeping it 100." This was effectively an endorsement for the audience to heckle guests who said things they didn't like.
• Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future had toys that could interact with the program itself as it was being broadcast.
• In the late 90's, Microsoft made a line of toys called Actimates that, with the help of a special transmitter, could interact with their respective PBS Kids program. Only Barney & Friends , Arthur and Teletubbies got Actimates made for them.
• Nina and Melanie Martinez on The Good Night Show encouraged viewers to say Spanish words, learn sign language and stretches, and play games with them.
• In a 1982 episode, Eddie Murphy appeared in a chef's kitchen with a live lobster, announcing that fans could vote by phone whether or not to boil it. As part of the joke, Murphy intentionally made the "boil" number far more comprehensible... only for the "spare" option to win. Murphy later cooked the lobster anyways and fed it to his co-stars on-air, citing racist complaints he received regarding the skit. DC Comics editor Dennis O'Neil cited the stunt as a direct inspiration for the phone poll for the Batman story A Death in the Family .
• A similar vote was held in 1983; executive producer Dick Ebersol let the audience decide whether or not eccentric performer Andy Kaufman would be banned from the show. The SNL cast was clearly in favor of Andy staying, with Eddie Murphy telling the audience if they could spare a lobster, they could surely spare his friend too. Alas, the voters decided to ban Andy, to the visible displeasure of the rest of the cast. Andy never returned to the show, passing away a year later. These events are dramatized in the Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon .
• Episodes of "The Participation Show" have a female audience member go on-stage and "become the main character of a K-drama". She's put into a Love Dodecahedron with several comedians and sometimes guests, and at the end, the audience member ranks the men from least appealing to most.
• Oh Nami occasionally interacts with the audience during "Nami and Bungbung", picking a man from the audience and playing short games with them. On the line is her status as forever alone, as a condition for winning or losing is having to date her.
• Analog : Several columns were developed that include unpaid reader submissions. The "Analytical Laboratory" is a tally of reader votes for the best stories of previous issues. "Brass Tacks" is a column where readers share their opinions on the magazine's quality (often praising / bashing specific stories), while "Science Discussions" is usually more of a direct back-and-forth about Non-Fiction things, such as one of the essays in the magazine from half a year ago. %[invoked]%
• Paul and Storm are probably the Rocky Horror of musical comedians; half of their songs just won't work live without banter with the audience. One of their songs, "The Captain's Wife's Lament", is regularly side tracked by joking with the audience and the general consensus is that if it runs under ten minutes, you've been short-changed (the studio version clocks in 2:25; the record is 35 minutes). In live performances, they'll often make a point of stating the time early in the song. "We are beginning it at 8:26 PM. Those of you who've not seen us before, I mention that because you'll be wondering why we're still singing it at 9:17 PM. And those of you who've seen us know I'm not kidding. "
• My Chemical Romance encouraged their fans to do this with the universe based on the their fourth and (currently) most recent album .
• The Protomen have numerous songs where the audience is encouraged to clap along and chant or sing certain parts. Some key examples are the "WE HAVE CONTROL. WE KEEP YOU SAFE. WE ARE YOUR HOPE," in Will of One, and the back-up in Breaking Out.
• Chris Daughtry has been known to ask the audience to sing along (either as a call and response or just letting them have the chorus), even joking with them that it doesn’t matter what they sing as long as they sing note  This is referencing the constantly misheard lyric for "Home", "I'm going home", not "I'm coming home".
• Elvis Costello had an entire audience participation tour back in 1986, and brought it back again in 2011. Called "The Revolver Tour", it featured a giant carnival-style wheel that audience members would spin to determine which song Elvis would play next.
• Subverted by Tom Lehrer in his live album Tom Lehrer Revisited , while introducing "The Irish Ballad", which parodies folk music in general: One of the more important aspects of public folk singing is audience participation, and this happens to be a good song for group singing, so if any of you feel like joining in with me on this song, I'd appreciate it if you would leave, right now!
• Weezer did this with the Hootenanny Tour, in which audience members were encouraged to bring instruments along and play along with the band.
• Green Day is also notorious for bringing fans onstage to play guitar during a song. On some occasions, when they perform Operation Ivy's "Knowledge", they will bring a bassist, drummer, and guitarist on stage to start a makeshift band.
• It wouldn't be a Pete Seeger concert without the audience joining in on some songs. Pete was good enough at this that he could get people singing along to choruses in languages they don't know.
• Kool Koo Kangaroo is big on getting audiences at live shows to sing and dance along.
• The Arrogant Worms: "Rippy the Gator" and "Rocks and Trees" are straight examples. "Jesus Brother Bob" has a couple of lines that tends to be spoken by the audience. "Mounted Animal Nature Trail" is a bizarre example, as the animals in the song are dead and shouldn't make noise, but the crowd will make the noises anyway just so the Worms will make fun of them for doing so.
• Before they retired the song, during live performances of "Misery Business", Paramore singer Hayley Williams would bring 1-3 fans onstage to either sing, play guitar, or both.
• Monty Python's Flying Circus had the audience at New York's City Center Theater sing along with the Bruces Philosophers' Song. When the audience's first attempt came half-hearted, the Bruces threatened "Anyone not singing will have a bottle of Foster's lobbed at their heads!" The words were presented and the audience joined in full volume.
• Arlo Guthrie's famous live recording of "Alice's Restaurant" includes a segment of audience participation in which he invites the crowd to sing "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant." He chastises their first attempt as "terrible" and has them try again.
• Bobby McFerrin 's The Wizard of Oz medley encourages audience participation, from humming "Over the Rainbow", to scatting part of "If I Only Had a Brain", to responding "Oh my!" appropriately to "Lions and Tigers and Bears!".
• This is MILGRAM 's core, stand-out feature, allowing anyone to decide and vote on whether or not they want to forgive a prisoner. The results of the vote influence the story and content of the future songs, with many of the songs from the second trial referencing the fan-voted results from the first. Fans can also ask prisoners questions through the mobile app from time to time.
• The 2017 and 2018 concerts each had a sing-along number.
• The concerts traditionally conclude with the choir and audience joining in an encore of "Angels From the Realms of Glory".
• Book of Esther : When the book is read aloud during Purim, audiences are expected to boo and jeer every time they hear the name of Haman ( boooo !). Noisemakers are even provided just so we can be sure his name is properly drowned out.
• Almost every Hey! Jake and Josh show has this to some degree. Pokémon World Tour: United is the most noteworthy since all gym leaders except for Blue are played by patreon sponsors. Pokemon World Tour also has the name-rater segment with viewer-submitted nicknames.
• Morphin' Grid , Pokemon World Tour , and Kingdom Smarts all have segments for reading listener emails (though for the latter those are usually saved until the end of each game to manage spoiler potential).
• Psycomedia starts every episode with a feedback section known as backfeeding and will often tackle topics based on requests .
• Marek vs. Wyshynski : Prior to every episode , the titular hosts will ask a Question of the Day and invite listeners to give their answers via e-mail or Twitter , with the best answers (as judged by the hosts) being read on-air at the end of each show. Answers that get on the air range from the obvious to the witty - even Black Humor will occasionally make its way there if it is particularly clever.
• Top Down Perspective : Before being released in podcast/video format, the show is streamed on Twitch, where the hosts always interact with the chat. They also end every show by answering viewer questions submitted to them via Twitter, the show's email address, (rarely) Facebook, and (even more rarely) handwritten letters sent to ProtonJon 's P.O. box.
• The Welcome to Night Vale live shows often have the actors encouraging the audience to say or do certain things, like shouting along with a battle cry, or looking under their seats for an escaped Librarian .
• During live episodes of How Did This Get Made? , Paul Scheer encourages the fans to perform jingles for the "Second Opinion" segment (where Paul, Jason, June and the guest panelist(s) read five-star user reviews culled from Amazon for the movie of the week). The songs are usually parody versions of existing songs with the lyrics exchanged for something relating to the movie.
• Most of the episode outros of Mystery Show included host Starlee Kine giving a hint about the next mystery and inviting listeners to guess what it might mean. Also, in episode five, she turns to Twitter for help in locating Jake Gyllenhaal, and things get a little out of hand.
• The House to Astonish live show had volunteers from the audience assisting in "House to Astonish Theatre" (a Dramatic Reading of Nightwing ).
• For the Winter 2021 taster and onward, Cube and Feen took requests from the Patreon supporters on which anime each of them would watch.
• The Jupiter Ascending slushie was the first episode requested by the patrons.
• One of the most infamous incidents was at ECW's Hardcore Haven in 1994, when Terry Funk and Cactus Jack called for chairs to be thrown in the ring and the crowd responded with ALL of them.
• Averted on the Canadian children's series Cucumber . However, one could become a member of the Cucumber by sending some artwork or a story to the show.
• Sesame Street : In Journey to Ernie , viewers would be encouraged to help Big Bird find Ernie.
• Used in the intro to the Pick-Up Song round, parodying that of Bruce Forsyth in now-long-defunct game show Play Your Cards Right . The chairman gives the Borrowed Catchphrase "Winners will be awarded points, and what do points mean?" with the audience expected to shout back "PRIZES!" Due to this being such a well-known catchphrase, they've taken to subverting it. Humph: And points mean Gatwick Airport. What do points mean? Most of audience: PRIZES! A few people: Gatwick Airport! Jack: ...And points mean prizes. What do idiots shout? Audience: PRIZES! Jack: Thank you.
• The round "Karaoke-Cokey" requires the audience to hum a well-known tune and the teams to guess what it is. In the stage show, the audience is provided with kazoos, which they use not just in this round but also in "Swannee Kazoo".
• Just about every hrase in Riders Radio Theater involves some form of call and response, usually the whole audience saying the tail end along with the voice actor in unison.
• In early episodes of Just a Minute , chairman Nicholas Parsons would sometimes put difficult decisions on challenges to the audience, asking them to cheer for one panellist or boo for the other and declaring the winner to be whichever attracted the louder sound. The Swedish version, På Minuten , still uses this approach, although the chairman asks for separate cheers for each of the challenger and the challenged rather than simultaneous cheering and booing.
• The Be Our Guest block on the Disney Hits station on Sirius XM has two different Disney fans each week each pick 4 of their favorite Disney songs. Sometimes, the person on the block will be a celebrity associated with Disney, like the cast of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series . In addition, several songs that were eventually placed in regular rotation debuted on this block first, such as "One Little Spark" and "Stand Out" .
• Older Than Television : Peter Pan has Peter demanding that the audience clap to restore Tinkerbell . In later versions, he tells them to also chant “I do believe in fairies”.
• Ayn Rand 's Night of January 16th had a jury selected from the audience to judge the defendant guilty or innocent at the end of the play.
• At the beginning of the second act of Cabaret , the emcee comes into the audience (it helps that the theater is set up like an actual nightclub) to search for a dance partner, often leading to ad-libs, such as "I sense fear here."
• Cirque du Soleil often involves the audience in its acts. For example, Mystère has a bit before the show actually starts in which a clown leads arriving audience members all around the room, to every place but where they need to be seated.
• Drood is built on this trope. Since the source material was never completed, the audience decides the identity of one mysterious character, who the murderer is, and which two characters spontaneously fall in love.
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum : In some productions, during the "soothsayer" scene Pseudolus will ask the audience for help as to what to say to Erronius.
• In Passing Strange , we have characters running through the audience and audience members being sung at.
• Return to the Forbidden Planet treats the audience like passengers on Scientific Survey Ship Nine, complete with "polarity reversal drills" and a vote as to whether one character should be forgiven or punished.
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee selects three audience members to join in the spelling bee. The setup is rigged so they'll win or lose by certain points of the story.
• A more subtle instance earlier can happen earlier the show. Kate interrupts Trekkie Monster's song " The Internet Is for Porn " insisting that "Normal people don't sit at home and look at porn on the internet!" Trekkie just stares blankly at the audience. In many productions, Trekkie will point to a guy in the front row and chuckle at him knowingly.
• Modern Luv : "Turn down the lights, take out your cell phones...", in the final number.
• Most Pantomime performances involve their audience at some point. (“Oh no they don’t!” “Oh yes they do!”)
• The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) selects six couples from the audience to play the animals on Noah's Ark. The rest of the audience plays the drowning sinners.
• In The Complete History Of America Abridged , the script recommends allowing the arrival of latecomers to interrupt the Amerigo Vespucci sketch, and pausing the action to ask them where they were all this time so that one of their answers can be recycled as a Brick Joke at the start of the second act (when one of the actors hasn't returned yet). Later in the second act, audience members are invited to participate in a history quiz, and are polled on which of two endings to the show they want to see (though their vote doesn't matter).
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) has one audience member be Ophelia, another audience member be her ego, the front row be her id, and the rest of the audience be her superego. It's worth noting that Ophelia is not a volunteer; one member of the troupe sarcastically says "That woman there would make a better Ophelia!" and they then decide this is a good idea and drag her onto the stage.
• The Complete Millennium Musical uses an audience member as the victim of the Inquisition.
• Maureen's performance in RENT , where she asks the audience to join her in mooing like a cow.
• At one point in Seussical , the Cat in the Hat plays an auctioneer selling a kidnapped Horton the Elephant, and gets the audience to bid on him. He will invariably mock the audience: The Cat: Sold for $50,000 to the good sir with the mustache and the greasy sideburns... oh, sorry ma'am .
• More or less implied in Vanities , while the girls are practicing cheers in the first scene. However, in some productions, audiences find this works so well that they voluntarily choose to shout back at them: "Gimme a T.(T!) Gimme an I.(I!) Gimme a G.(G!) Gimme an E.(E!) Gimme an R.(R!) Gime an S.(S!) Put 'em together and whaddaya get? (Tigers!)"
• The Ship That Never Was has a fair bit of audience participation. Some characters with no spoken lines are played by people picked from the audience, some audience members are assigned characters (and given hats to wear), but said characters never actually appear on stage, and some members are given props and/or told to make sound effects.
• One of the most famous plays that has audience participation is Tony 'n' Tina's Wedding , which is performed in the style of a wedding reception and has the audience seated at tables while the cast acts from different parts of the theatre (often a converted reception hall). A 2004 film version took out the interactive aspect and was a critical and commercial failure.
• The audience is also encouraged to join in with the reprise of Always Look on the Bright Side of Life at the end.
• Accidental Death of an Anarchist presents two endings to the play, and The Maniac invites the audience to choose whichever one they prefer.
• As part of a production of Julius Caesar at the reconstructed Globe Theatre in London shortly after its completion, the production company planted audience members who, during the scene in which Mark Antony reads Caesar's will to the crowds to turn them against the conspirators, began shouting, "Read the will!" Soon, the whole audience began to join in, as though collectively playing the role of the crowd at Caesar's funeral.
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 's second act opens with Fourth-Wall Observer Willy Wonka conducting the entr'acte and then heading into the front row to call up the Golden Ticket winners, who come charging through the aisles, to the onstage Waiting Room. And as he steps off the conducting platform, he briefly takes a seat on an audience member's lap! (If there's an unoccupied front row seat, he might take that instead, but often that's not the case.)
• Here Lies Love is notable that the immersive setup delineates the political atmosphere. There's a floor-standing audience closest to the the action, while the mezzanine and floorsider seats observe. During line-dancing sequence, all audience members are encouraged to dance. More notable in the musical's conceit is that it implicates the audience in falling for the Marcos regime and its incoming dictatorship.
• The Trail to Oregon! has the audience decide upon the names of all the characters in the family. Much like the game it is based on, most of the names tend to end up being quite silly (e.g. Slippery-When-Wet, Crap-Hole). The audience even gets to choose which character ends up dying of dysentery .
• In Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier , the Princess directly asks the audience about Aladdin's intentions at one point. When the audience inevitably tries to tell her that he's not trustworthy, she does not seem to care.
• At the end of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals , Emma pleads with the audience to help her call for help, asking people to hand her their phones.
• Spies Are Forever : At one point, Baron von Nazi calls on the audience to chant with him.
• Fairview : Both In-Universe and played straight. First In-Universe in the third act, some white people in the audience that have been commenting on the action insert themselves in the story (a black family throwing a birthday party). Then, right at the end, after Keisha (the daughter of the black family) gains Medium Awareness , she tells the white people in the audience to come up on the stage and join the play, so that they will be the people being watched instead of the ones doing the watching.
• Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 relies on audience participation. The cast is constantly running through the audience and hands out things like pierogies and shaker eggs. In one of the songs, two audience members are chosen to be suitors to Princess Mary and Old Prince Bolkonsky. Two characters pull stools into the audience and have a conversation around the people seated there. The character of Anatole repeatedly goes out into the audience and kisses women on the cheek. Letters are also given to the audience directly by cast members to pass to other cast members. Much of the audience is seated on stage for the cast to interact with, and much of the stage is where seating would normally be; there is basically no line between the stage and the seating.
• As anyone who has ever seen the stage version of The Rocky Horror Show will be able to tell you, it gets just as chaotic and raucous as its film counterpart, but with the added bonus of the actor playing The Criminologist (usually a stand up comic, or someone with experience in Pantomime) coming back to the audience with some kind of retort.
• Matilda opens its second act with Mr. Wormwood asking the audience if they've ever read a book. He then mocks a particular person, usually in the first few rows, for being a bookworm.
• Pippin has the title character's grandmother, Bertha, asking the audience to join her in a singalong. The end of the number averts this when she tells the audience that she has to sing the final verse by herself.
• In some post-2007 productions of Schoolhouse Rock LIVE! , after the line "And Pluto, little Pluto, is the farthest planet from the sun" is sung in "Interplanet Janet", the characters living inside Tom's mind realize that something is off, causing whoever is the music director to chime in and tell them the truth about Pluto as the actor playing the planet shows a deflated version of it. Shulie suggests that the audience vote for whether they should make Pluto a planet for the rest of the performance or not. George agrees and does what she suggests, asking the audience to raise their hands if they want Pluto to be a planet. If enough people raise their hands, the "normal" version of Pluto returns, and if they vote no, the deflated planet gets tossed behind the stage.
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch is very reliant on audience participation, with Hedwig calling on the audience to sing along with her during "Wig in a Box" and getting very close to audience members during "Sugar Daddy."
• The plot of the 2022 Game Grumps LIVE tour "Tournament of Gamers" relies on audience participation. The audience is divided into two teams (Arin's "Team Grump" and Dan's "Not So Grump"), and audience members on each side get called onstage to play various minigames and defeat the other side. The final battle, however, has Dan and Arin play onstage, with the audience being encouraged to cheer for one side or the other to power them up, with the Final Boss being powered by both sides' cheering combined .
• Universal Studios LOVES to use this throughout many of its attractions. In particular, attractions like Earthquake: The Big One , Disaster! , Animal Actors , and Universal's Horror Make-Up Show have guest volunteers brought up on stage to help demonstrate the many techniques used in the creation of special effects in movies.
• Magic Kingdom is home to "Enchanted Tales with Belle", in which guests are chosen to help retell the story of Beauty and the Beast , and the " Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor", where the animated monsters randomly select audience members to help with their comedy routines. Guests are also able to submit their own jokes for the monsters to tell.
• Other attractions that had audience participation included "Who Wants To Be a Millionaire-Play It!" (which is more or less a recreation of the TV show of the same name ), "Lights! Motors! Action!" (in which a guest controlled a stunt car through remote control), the Studio Backlot Tour (guests were picked to get splashed in an underwater mining sequence for an unnamed action film), and "Toy Story Midway Mania" (which is an interactive ride!). Oh, and even one of the RESTAURANTS has audience participation, in the style of a 1950s household with the waiters admonishing patrons to get their "Elbows off the table!"
• Star Tours : The Adventure Continues : Darth Vader will single out a random member of the audience as a Rebel spy on board, and their picture will show up on the screen.
• In Muppet*Vision 3D , Sweetums asks the audience to help him find Bean Bunny, who has run away.
• Today, Epcot is home to "Turtle Talk with Crush", where guests interact with Crush and other characters from Finding Nemo and Finding Dory .
• As a general example, crowd-funded games (such as those on Kickstarter) often involve pledge-participation. In addition to donation gifts for different levels of support, many studios will also poll their backers as to some of the content that will be going into the game. Other times, they will promise to include certain additional features if the project meets certain stretch goals, which can often help drum up a surge of further funding for the project.
• Puzzle Clubhouse is a series of free online games based entirely around the idea of audience participation. A new game episode comes out on the first of every month, and between episodes, the development team asks the player community to submit game concepts, story ideas, artwork, sound effects, puns, etc, for community vote. The most popular content is integrated into upcoming episodes and becomes part of Puzzle Clubhouse canon.
• After Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed was released, Steve Lycett stated that if fans of the game could get at least one hundred votes for 3 different characters from SEGA history, he would pitch those characters to Sumo Digital and SEGA for consideration of being made into DLC. The winners were Segata Sanshiro , Ryo Hazuki , and Hatsune Miku .
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door features in-universe Audience Participation with its battle system. All battles take place on a stage, with certain factors causing audience members to come in and leave, cheer on the player (which gives them star power, and Mario can even show off to the crowd to gain even more Star Power) or even throw things at the player to help or hinder them. Some enemies will even attack the audience (such as Magnus von Grapple's machine gun that fires audience members , or the Final Boss devouring the entire audience to regain health.)
• In April of 2015, Nintendo opened an official polling website known as the Super Smash Bros. Fighter's Ballot , where fans could suggest a character to be added to Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U as the game's final DLC fighter. Two months later, Bayonetta was the announced as the winner, coming in first in Europe, placing in the top five in North America, and being first worldwide among realizable characters . Series creator Masahiro Sakurai would later reveal that the ballot results went on to inform both main roster and DLC character selection for the following game in the series, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate . The characters in question being Ridley , Simon and Richter Belmont , King K. Rool , Banjo and Kazooie , and Sora ; Sora, in particular, was the actual overall winner of the ballot. It was simply impossible to negotiate with Disney for the character within the given timeframe.
• Domina has this for viewers on Twitch. They can cheer on the fights to increase the prize money and determine the fate of gladiators that surrender. They also vote on decisions the player has to make during events, although the player is not required to make the audience's choice.
• In Phantasy Star Online 2 , some concerts will have the option to jump on stage with the singers, dancing along by clicking the mouse in time with the beat.
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony has an in-universe example: the audience of the Immoral Reality Show can talk to the robot K1-B0 in his head, and serve as his guide . Then exaggerated when they hijack him in the last chapter and become the Final Boss .
• The first game's " Callie vs. Marie " Splatfest had the latter win, resulting in the two cousins slowly drifting apart (to Marie's complete dismay) between the first and second games, with the sequel itself having its main campaign partially concern Callie having disappeared and later revealed to have become a Brainwashed and Crazy general for the Octarian Army .
• Splatoon 2 's " Order Versus Chaos " Splatfest, led to the third game having a "chaos" theme, with the setting shifting from Inkopolis (the metropolis where the first two games take place), to the desert environment of the Splatlands and the more multicultural city of Splatsville.
• In most The Jackbox Party Pack games, anyone who joins a room after the eight contestants enter will join an audience pool. The audience can influence the games in certain ways (like placing votes in Quiplash ), and in some cases even participate collectively as an extra "player".
• Prior to the release of Gears of War 3 , two shirts were made available for the Xbox Live Avatars that were functionally a poll for Clay Carmine’s fate in the game, with his two brothers being killed unceremoniously early on in the previous two games . One shirt said, ”Save Carmine” and the other said “Carmine Must Die.” Each shirt purchased counted as one vote. He lives! The first and to date only Carmine to survive the events of the game. Two in fact.
• Since 2017, the Fire Emblem series has an annual public poll called Choose Your Legends, for which characters will have special versions of themselves added to Fire Emblem Heroes . The honors for each year go to the top two from each gender, and past winners will be removed from the running for future installments of the poll.
• Blaseball has gameplay where you can earn coins, with which you can then buy votes. At first these were used to vote for Decrees (leaguewide rules changes) and Blessings (improvements for your team). Later on, there were Wills (internal team raffles), the Idol Boards (a weeklong popularity contest: your idol could earn you coins), and Renovations and Gifts (highest coin bidder).
• Homestar Runner : Strong Bad Emails and annual Halloween costume contests.
• Many of the battles in DEATH BATTLE! are taken from fan requests. For Season 10, fans were able to vote for two match-ups (one for 2D animation, the other for 3D animation) to become episodes in the season.
• Taco-Man Plays a Video Game lets viewers of the Captain Novolin review choose what Captain Novolin does to Mayor Gooden via annotations. If you wait too long, Taco-Man picks the wrong choice, causing Captain Novolin to go to jail.
• Many competition-based Object Shows , including Battle for Dream Island , the first one which popularized it, allows the viewers to vote on who gets eliminated as well as recommending characters to debut as contestants or simply be part of the crowd in particular episodes.
• The creators of Club Penguin Shutdown use ideas based on what people have written in comments, and showcase them in an aftershow mini-series known as Club Penguin Shutdown: The Aftermath .
• In Algicosathlon Rises , the viewers would normally vote on rejoins, and, until mid-Season 2, send fanart to the contestants. This was downplayed later on as a part of the show's Cerebus Syndrome , but also mostly due to problems relating to the show's Broken Base .
• Unfortunately, it's implied that Snadhya'Rune has her OWN audience of fan advisors from an alternate Earth - hence all the successful mayhem and corruption.
• The main characters of Voices can hear the readers' forum posts in their heads.
• An important element of Awful Hospital , as it is an Interactive Comic .
• Request Comics has this as a central conceit: readers can request ideas for Ben Heaton to make webcomics out of.
• Tempts Fate, the hero of the side-comic to Goblins , is sometimes indirectly aware of the audience's guesses to the riddles he must solve. One time he says "I bet if a lot of people made a guess, they would say...", while another time he states that "Over 400 people wrote [the answer to the riddle] on the door.."
• Books Don't Work Here has No Fourth Wall and all the Non Player Characters are afraid of what would happen if the audience stopped reading the comic. Because of this anyone who is an avatar of someone in the real world is treated as a first class citizen, and lives in the lap of luxury. Readers who donate to the comic can request an avatar of themselves.
• In-universe, the Traveling Heterodyne Shows in Girl Genius often have this. Case in point: Actress Lucrezia : Who has deactivated my beautiful frogs?!?! Audience: ( while pointing at actor Bill ) HE DID!!!!
• Naturally, MS Paint Adventures inspired Prequel (and some other comics and "Ask [character]" blogs) uses this. In the former case, how much participation there is is variable; either the audience bands together to make poor Katia miserable, or the author conveniently handwaves some reason for the audience's helpful suggestions to be ignored, and still sometimes the audience suggestions will be closed temporarily for things to happen outside of her control. (When they try to force Katia, or the current protagonist, to do things that clearly go against the character's nature, it gets written off as a particularly perverse or self-destructive impulse that they are annoyed with themselves for even having.)
• Oceanfalls takes reader submitted command suggestions and uses them to advance the story. As expected, the commands submitted range from plot related to downright absolute memetic nonsensical suggestions.
• Level 9, 10 and 11 of Rusty and Co. have an overreaching plot involving the three main characters (Rusty, Mimic and Cube) choosing two companions each for a specific quest. Said choice is done through the readers voting for any characters from earlier in the comic (except for those aforementioned three and the Princess, who's been kidnapped) they fancy. Choices are guided either by who could be the most useful for said quests, of who could provide the most entertainment (since the vote can include former villains too).
• Most (but not all) of the tweets on make up a guy are follower submissions messaged to the account.
• Imageboards such as 4chan and Questden involve many scenarios called "Quests" where audience participation is the most important part of the story. The level of Medium Awareness of the main characters varies between nonexistent (characters believe that they are making queries to their subconscious and making the choices themselves) to completely aware (with many characters freaking out at the start of their stories upon listening to voices in their heads for the first time). Voting and arguments are frequent.
• Being an open species Art RPG, everyone wanting to join in on the Seldnac'Rae is able to make their own Seldnac character and create stories set in their world.
• The two leads of Shea Scientific Films will interact with tweets and YouTube comments in-character.
• Solar Wind allows its audience to make decisions to move the plot forward. This mechanic was especially prevalent in the first few chapters.
• Let's Plays on the Something Awful forums will often have audience participation in the forum topic, if the game has scope for such a thing.
• All of the segments of the Creepypasta story Vox and King Beau were originally posted on /x/ with the author writing as the titular character. Vox posted about the strange happenings in her life and frequently asked /x/ for advice, actively encouraging and responding to comments.
• 7-Second Riddles has a variant; some riddles never actually have definitive answers, and are instead deferred to the commenters, who can then theorize amongst themselves as to what the "correct" answer is. On at least on occasion, a riddle's answer was chosen from the comments section.
• Break It to Make It : Viewers are able to submit ideas for items to use in future videos to break stuff with.
• He based his Let's Play of Animal Crossing: New Leaf on this idea. Once per 2-3 episodes, he asked fans about some idea(e.g. next public works project or his new clothes), and everyone was able to send him his/her suggestion.
• Whenever he plays a Pokemon game, the fans are allowed to choose the nicknames of his party members.
• Clumsy Chicken 's live YouTube streams are built around this. Viewers can request areas for her to go to/specific enemies to defeat/specific party configurations.
• Epic Rap Battles of History takes majority of matches from comments under videos, and even encourages it in one of announcer's catchphrases: " WHO WON? WHO'S NEXT? YOU DECIDE! " Starting from season 2, fans can also vote for official winner of the battle.
• Fail has also done a couple of live performances where he bring audience members to compete in a contest of Mii making (using Miitopia to create popular characters from Miis).
• fishtank.live : Along with having a live chat for subscribers, viewers can spend money on "tokens", which they can spend to vote on polls, or send text-to-speech messages to various rooms in the house. They can also cash in their tokens on "fishtoys", with various effects such as sending goodies to contestants, switching on/off camera feeds, or turning up or down the temperature in the house.
• Game Theory has the Super Amazing End Card Tournament — a poll about a set of subjects related to the video shown or about the next episode MatPat covers. Only a few times does this impact what is shown, such as what subject for the next episode.
• Gronkh often lets his viewers decide what to do next in his Let's Plays .
• "Your Grammar Sucks," where Jack makes fun of incoherent Internet comments, has viewers screenshot the comments and send them to him on Twitter or Facebook.
• YIAY (Yesterday I Asked You) is a series where Jack asks his audience questions and shows off their best answers in his video. Sometimes he goes beyond straightforward questions and asks viewers to create photo manipulations, make valentines, or write lyrics for a song. YIAY led to a few Spin Offs like "Fix Your Pix," where Jack edits user-submitted photographs, and "Fake Facts" where Jack makes clickbait images out of fake trivia his fans create, then asks his audience to submit proof that it fooled their friends. Jack also runs a live Twitch game show based on YIAY where he competes with fans to have the funniest response to a question.
• Many of Jerma985 's more ambitious streams allow the chat to participate in whatever he has going on. His carnival stream, for example, necessitated chat input to operate robots to perform a series of simple carnival games. The Jerma985 Dollhouse streams were a more ambitious flavor of this, with chat dictating Jerma's clothing for the day, his activities, and where furniture would be placed.
• Prior to releasing the second season, the Garfield parody Lasagna Cat put out some teasers for said season, in which fans were encouraged to call a phone number and answer an automated survey. It turned out that the survey only asked the caller to state two things: their name and how many sexual partners they have had throughout their life. The results were included in the "Sex Survey Results" video which was released along with the rest of the second season.
• Lost In Google : The scripts of the episodes are based on the viewers' comments and suggestions from the previous videos.
• Lost Pause : A significant part of Noble's content is his reaction videos. With his Try Not To Laugh challenges, he asks his fans to send him funny pics or clips.
• One of the appeals of Movie Night is that you can submit your own reviews of the movies that Jonathan Paula is reviewing.
• Marriland , also known as Devin, did this at the end of his Yellow Sleeplocke . After he (as Hello) loses to Mewtwo, he ends up depositing two of his Pokémon but keeps the four mains used in the Sleeplocke in the party. Why? Because he has challenged his Twitch audience to a final battle, with the viewers controlling Hello, and Devin using his four main Pokémon from the old team from long ago, consisting of Pikachu, Pippi the Clefable, Zippy the Charizard, and Porkchop the Primeape. Devin has the audience vote on the moves and strategize. In the end, Devin is defeated by the audience itself .
• Pirates SMP : While many of the creators' stream chats have been canonized from their introduction , they become crucial in the finale on Day 134 when they are invited to vote for whether the pirates choose to fight against Ivy (the heart of the Corruption ) or Iris (the leader of the Church ) in the end, judging by their knowledge and belief of who's the true villain after watching the SMP, with the total votes tallying up for a final decision. They choose to fight Iris and are able to help the pirates Earn Your Bittersweet Ending .
• Skawo 's Patreon Supporters can decide which playthrough will be up on Patreon early, regular viewers can decide what format some games will be displayed in (E.G. Whether Twilight Princess would be displayed on a Game Cube, a Game Cube hacked to have wide screen, or the Wii U remake).
• SMPLive 's hit mechanic allows viewers to donate to streamers and tell them a player they want them to kill.
• SomeGuy712x 's let's play videos allow any users to vote on which level he plays next. Many players also throw in jokes with their votes, so the vote recap starts with a long list of "1 vote for [thing in comment]" before the actual results are listed. Sometimes, these spawn Running Gags throughout the playthrough. In EVERY LEVEL IGGY! , viewers could vote for which Self-Imposed Challenge he would use while playing the next episode's levels.
• Tear Of Grace occasionally plays the games suggested by his audience and decides whether a series is successful and worth continuing by the amount of people who like and view it. He also regularly hosts polls in his comment section about whether or not a series should stay or be "slayed".
• Anyone of the React members will always tell the viewers to comment what they should React next on the next episode of any React series ( Kids , Teens , Elders and Youtubers ).
• Double subverted in the Unraveled "Perfect "Pokérap" video, which was filmed at a panel at PAX East 2019. A Running Gag has Brian put questions up onscreen for the audience to read aloud, only to chew them out because he said there would be no audience participation, and that was just a test. However, when Brian realizes he can't say the names of every Pokémon in the short timeframe he's been alloted, he gets the audience to shout out a bunch of Pokémon whose names he couldn't fit into the rap. Brian : I love all the Pokémon, but here's the catch, Saying them all kinda seems Farfetch'd! Lemme Axew a question, wanna help me out? It's time to Throh in more names, come on, give me a shout! [Right side yells out 200 names] Those Pokémon are Tentacool! [Left side yells out 200 other names] And those Pokémon are trash!
• Given that The Whiskey Vault revolves around a deeply subjective topic (namely, sampling and reviewing all kinds of whiskey), hosts Daniel and Rex are not comfortable doing list episodes. The ones that they have done on The Whiskey Vault and its sister channel The Whiskey Tribe have all been based on feedback given by their fanbase which is collated together to create the list for each such episode.
• Xiil3gendaryzetsubou do this during their Twitch streams to decide things like who to spend time with in Danganronpa , who to take into battle in Valkyria Chronicles , which route to take in Zero Escape , etc.
• Blind Vaysha : This animated short is about a girl, Vaysha, who sees the future with one eye and the past with the other, but never the present. At the end the narrator invites the viewer to close their right eye. A blank bright screen is shown and the narrator muses about how the movie hasn't made yet. The narrator then tells the viewer to close their left eye. A dark screen is shown and the narrator says the film has crumbled to dust. Then the narrator wonders "do we see the world with the eyes of Vaysha the blind?"
• The Simpsons had, at the end of season 22, a vote to decide whether Ned Flanders and Edna Krabappel should get together. They did...and they even got married!
• Parodied and subverted in Earthworm Jim , where Jim has his super suit stolen by Psy-Crow and Professor Monkey-For-A-Head and replaced with a powerless version. He tries various methods to get superpowers to compensate, to no avail, before finally Breaking the Fourth Wall in desperation. Jim: ( to the audience ) I'll get superpowers if you all just believe ! Believe and clap very hard! ( beat ) Jim: Well? Are they clapping? Peter: Uh... a few of them. Most of them are just changing the channel.
• Cosgrove in Freakazoid! also appeals to the audience to clap to get them out of a bind (this time getting Freakazoid and him out of a trap). This time it actually works. Cosgrove: Throw in some "huggbees" , too!
• The Family Guy episode "Prick Up Your Ears" played with this trope. At certain points, the cartoon would pause and an announcer would say "If you want X to do Y, text FAMGUY1 , if you want X to do Z, text FAMGUY2 , etc", then played some relaxing music. Once that finished, the cartoon would then act out the one the public "picked."
• A season two episode of Laff-A-Lympics utilized a cartoon gauge to determine which team would win an event by means of home viewer applause. Mildew Wolf (one of the commentators) would hold his mic up to the camera (which we see as a close-up of it). Naturally, the Really Rottens got bupkis.
• ¡Mucha Lucha! ; in one episode, the three protagonists and Sally Got Volunteered for this watching a pro match after one wrestler "dares" the other to fight with four junior luchadores in his jersey. ( And they help him escape a pin.)
• Teen Titans Go! did this twice: once as a hotline for who would win in "Justice League's Next Top Idol Star" and the second as to which alternate forms of the Titans would appear in the "Beast Girl" episode. The latter of which was infamous for being false advertising , as all of the Titans in the episode turned out to be Gender Bender versions of themselves .
• PAW Patrol did this for the names of the Mighty Twins. Via a special phone number, children could vote for one of two sets of names note  Tuck and Ella and Junior and Rosie, the former of which wound wind up winning after texting the word "TWINS".
• This was subverted in World Tour, only because the audience poll had the final three up for voting instead of the final two - Cody, Heather, and Alejandro . In America, since Cody had always been a fan favorite and was the only one of the three to not be a villain, he received far more votes than either of the other two. However, he lost early in the finale and got third place, with most of the episode being a competition between Heather and Alejandro . The winner in America was the runner up in the votes, Heather .

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How to Engage Your Audience and Sell More Event Tickets With Gamified Campaigns

Audience republic's campaigns tool is designed to help you sell more event tickets and grow your audience. here are some tips on how to get the most out of your campaigns..

Harnessing the power of gamified campaigns can be a game-changer for audience engagement, growth and ticket sales.

By strategically integrating gamification into your ticket selling strategy you can expand your audience, have meaningful interactions, capture data and ultimately, drive conversions.

Silverchair drummer and solo artist Ben Gillies has successfully used Audience Republic’s Campaigns tool to turbocharge his mailing list, building it from a few thousand names to “in the tens of thousands”.

What exactly is a gamified campaign?

A gamified campaign is a marketing strategy that incorporates elements of gameplay and competition to engage and incentivize audiences. It typically involves using game mechanics such as points, competitions or rewards to encourage participation and drive specific actions or behaviors, such as signing up for a presale or wait list. 

Gamified campaigns can be shared across various platforms, including social media, email, websites and SMS, to achieve objectives such as increasing brand awareness, driving customer engagement, or boosting ticket sales.

Before you start utilizing a gamified campaign, it’s worth asking yourself a few questions:

1. What is My Objective?

Begin by defining specific goals for your gamified campaign. Are you aiming to increase social media followers, boost email subscriptions, or publicize presales? Clarifying your objectives allows for targeted strategies and effective measurement of success. Whether it's enhancing brand awareness or driving ticket conversions, align your gamification efforts with your overarching marketing goals.

2. Who is My Audience?

Understanding your audience is paramount to crafting engaging gamified experiences. What prizes can you offer that will resonate with your audience and encourage them to engage more with your campaign? 

“I was able to give away a really cool prize and my niche really wouldn’t pass that by,” says Michael Karagiannis, Founder of LALA Festival and Club Meraki . “It was really encouraging them to push their friends to sign up as well, and through that I saw about a 67% increase in sign-ups.”

How to Make Gamified Campaigns Work For You

There are a number of different ways you can use gamified campaigns.

Multiply Pre-sale Registrations Through Gamification

Implement gamified mechanics to incentivize fans to share presale announcements with their networks. With Audience Republic’s Campaign tool, fans can earn points when they share your presale link on socials, invite their friends and follow you. This not only expands your reach exponentially, but also cultivates a sense of community among new and existing fans as excitement builds around your event. Utilize social sharing features and personalized referral links to track and reward successful referrals effectively.

Gauge Interest with Pre-Sale Registrations

Encourage fans to register their interest in upcoming events before tickets even go on sale. Use incentives such as exclusive signed merchandise, artist meet-and-greets, VIP upgrades or drinks packages to entice early registrations. By gauging interest levels in advance, organizers can make informed decisions regarding venue capacity, number of shows, marketing strategies and event logistics, ensuring a seamless and successful experience for attendees.

By gauging interest levels in advance, organizers can make informed decisions regarding venue capacity, number of shows, marketing strategies and event logistics, ensuring a seamless and successful experience for attendees.

Drive Engagement Through Competitions

Launch interactive competitions or challenges that encourage fans to actively engage with your brand on social media or share your content with their community. Fans can win points by linking accounts (such as Spotify), and sharing your content to socials and/or their friends. If their friends register/take part in the competition, the person who referred them also gets more points. The person with the most points can win coveted prizes, such as exclusive experiences, artist meet-and-greets, a bar tab or VIP upgrades. 

Build Anticipation with Waitlist Incentives

Create a waitlist for sold-out events and incentivize fans to join by offering perks such as priority access to future events, exclusive merchandise, or backstage passes. Use gamified elements like loyalty points to reward waitlist members based on their level of engagement, such as social sharing, referrals, or participation in community activities. Allocate tickets to waitlist members based on their engagement level, ensuring that the most dedicated fans are rewarded for their loyalty.

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How to Best Utilize the Points System

Once you have identified the objective, audience and type of gamified campaign you’d like to run, the next step is ensuring you’ve customized the point scoring to align with your overarching goals. 

Increase Your Social Media Following

If one of your objectives is to increase the follower count on a specific channel, such as Instagram, or drive followers to a new channel you’re launching, such as TikTok, then consider weighting the points in favor of that specific channel. 

A recent customer example we loved was FiveFour Entertainment, who boosted their Instagram following by 2175 people and saw an 85% uplift in campaign registrations by simply increasing their offering to 30 points for following their Instagram and 100 points for sharing with a friend.  ‍

Capture More Fans’ Data

If your goal is to capture data from your fans and their friends, then consider weighting the points in favor of sharing the campaign. This rewards your fans with points for sharing your event, captures the data of the friends it’s shared with, and offers those friends point incentives to pass the word on again. 

Increase the Data Points on Your Fans

If you want to bolster the information within your database to improve your segments, tags or lists, then consider weighting the points in favor of activities like linking their Spotify accounts. This data can then be used to understand what artists or genres your audience are listening to, which not only helps with targeting, but in putting together line-ups or bills that will resonate with your audience.

Get Additional Email / SMS Marketing Opt-ins

If your objective is to grow and gather your email or SMS opt-ins, then consider gearing your points in favor of subscribing to these channels. By doing this, you can ensure you build an engaged list of fans to whom you can communicate future events and promotions. 

To learn more about Audience Republic’s Campaigns, and how you can best utilize them to sell more tickets and grow your audience, speak to a friendly member of our team now . A customer service manager will be happy to provide tips and assist you in setting up your campaigns.

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Travis Kelce Shared Priceless Moment With Taylor Swift on Stage at Eras Tour in London

Kristen wong | jun 23, 2024.

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Two of America’s biggest superstars shared the stage for the first time on Sunday night in a surprise twist that left 89,000 Eras Tour concert-goers in shambles.

In one of the more head-turning moments of the NFL offseason, Travis Kelce went undercover as one of Taylor Swift’s backup dancers during her “Tortured Poets Department” set of the Eras Tour in Wembley Stadium.

In the lead-up to Swift’s performance of “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart,” Kelce, dressed in a suit and a top hat, carried his girlfriend to a couch on stage as part of the act. 

🚨| TRAVIS KELCE'S FULL SURPRISE APPEARANCE FOR "I CAN DO IT WITH A BROKEN HEART" AT TODAY'S SHOW! #LONDONTSTHEERASTOUR pic.twitter.com/NxWKlOes4g — The Eras Tour (@tswifterastour) June 23, 2024

Travis Kelce picking Taylor up and joining her onstage as part of the I Can Do It With A Broken Heart transition! 😭🤍🏹 #LONDONTSTHEERASTOUR pic.twitter.com/efhSH4zNI9 — Taylor Swift Updates (@SwiftNYC) June 23, 2024

Kelce has attended three consecutive nights of the Eras Tour in London starting from June 21 and has frequented several of Swift’s concerts in the past, but this is the first time the Chiefs tight end has actually gotten up on stage with her. 

Kelce’s brother, Jason, was also seen attending the concert in London this past weekend with countless friendship bracelets draped around his arms. 

"I think she's at Wembley eight times, which is mind-blowing that she can do that many shows in one stadium and fill that thing up,” Kelce said of Swift’s international slate back in April . “I played in Wembley once, and I don't even think we filled that thing all the way up.”

Swift will perform three Wembley shows in June and five in August as part of her ongoing tour. Kelce has a little less than a month before Chiefs training camp begins on July 21.

KRISTEN WONG

Kristen Wong is a Staff Writer on the Breaking & Trending News Team at Sports Illustrated. She has been a sports journalist since 2020. Before joining SI, Kristen covered four NFL teams as an associate editor with the FanSided NFL Network and worked as a staff writer for the brand’s flagship site. She has written about soccer, the NFL, NBA, and MLB since 2020, and outside of work, has dreams of running her own sporty dive bar.

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Travis Kelce Brings Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour in London

Travis kelce, brother jason kelce and his wife kylie kelce were spotted at taylor swift's london eras tour show at wembley stadium june 21..

We know   Taylor Swift loves a London boy, but a London family? Even better. 

After all, Travis Kelce  attended the "Fortnight" singer's June 21 Eras Tour stop in London with brother Jason Kelce and his wife Kylie Kelce , and the trio made the whole place shimmer.

Before Taylor took the stage at Wembley Stadium, Travis, Jason and Kylie were seen   entering the VIP section together. One lucky fan even got Jason to autograph their New Heights podcast hat, while Queer Eye 's  Jonathan Van Ness took a pic with Travis.

The Kelces' U.K. night out marks Jason and Kylie's first time seeing Taylor's Eras Tour since she and Travis began dating .

But that doesn't mean the former Philadelphia Eagles player—who shares daughters Wyatt , 4, Elliotte , 3, and Bennett , 14 months, with Kylie—hasn't been staying updated on her concerts. He previously declared that the tour's setlist has gotten even better since Taylor added her Tortured Poets Department section.

"I watched videos," Jason told Travis during a May 15 episode of their New Heights podcast, "It looked way more electric for some reason."

Before their family outing in London, Travis and Taylor last spent time together in Europe, taking a getaway car from Paris to Lake Como, Italy, for a romantic vacation  in May. During their trip, the Grammy winner and NFL star enjoyed a leisurely evening stroll and packed on the PDA on a private boat ride .

Of course, those weren't the only enchanting moments from their whirlwind stay in the European resort town. Travis shared that the pair also got to sample some "unbelievable" food . 

As he told reporters on the red carpet at his Kelce Jam , "It's the best food and the best views in the world."

But the  New Heights host wasn't only overseas to hang out with Taylor during her down time. He also made sure to catch the "Cruel Summer" singer's May 12 concert in Paris alongside her bestie Gigi Hadid , her boyfriend Bradley Cooper and Philadelphia Eagles defensive line Connor Barwin .

"I got to see a few familiar faces," Travis explained during the May 15 episode of  New Heights . "Connor Barwin was up there—one of our favorite teammates of all time. Then I got to see Gigi and Bradley—BC, Big Coop—we were all in the suite having a blast."

Gushing that he had an "all-around lovely night" despite it being his sixth time watching the show, he added, "I don't know if they're just getting better or if I'm just forgetting how they are. It was electric." 

Keep reading for a full breakdown of Taylor and Travis' love story. 

July 2023: So, Make the Friendship Bracelets

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce 's love story began in July 2023, when the singer's Eras Tour made a stop at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo.

As a huge Swiftie, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end caught the show with hopes of giving Taylor a friendship bracelet with his number on it . However, he failed to complete the pass due to her pre-show rituals.

"I was disappointed that she doesn't talk before or after her shows because she has to save her voice for the 44 songs that she sings," Travis shared on the July 26 episode of his  New Heights podcast. "So, I was a little butt-hurt I didn't get to hand her one of the bracelets I made for her."

Summer 2023: This Is Him Trying

After publicly recounting his fumble—a move Taylor would later describe as "metal as hell" —Travis decided to shoot his shot and invite the Grammy winner to watch the Chiefs play at Arrowhead Stadium.

"I threw it out there, I threw the ball in her court," he shared on The Pat McAfee Show . "I told her, you know, 'I've seen you rock the stage in Arrowhead, you might have to come see me rock the stage in Arrowhead and see which one's a little more lit.' So, we'll see what happens in the near future."

August 2023: Enchanted to Meet You

Travis was rocking a mustache—which he debuted in August during training camp—when he was first introduced to Taylor .

As he later noted of the era, "That 'stache and the 87 jersey was pretty iconic there for a little bit, and I had it when I met Taylor for the first time."

September 2023: Sparks Fly

By early September, a source close to the situation told E! News that Travis and Taylor were " texting and talking here and there ."

"It's been very low-key," the insider explained, "as he's been in season."

September 2023: Cheer Captain

Accepting Travis' invite, Taylor joined the athlete's mom Donna Kelce at Arrowhead Stadium to watch him and the Chiefs take on the Chicago Bears. After the game, Taylor and Travis were seen packing PDA at a local bar .

Though folklore had it that it was the couple's first in-person meeting, the "Karma" singer later clarified the two had spent a "significant amount of time" getting to know each other beforehand.

As Taylor noted, "We would never be psychotic enough to hard launch a first date." 

October 2023: Team Up

As an indication that the relationship was heating up, Taylor brought her squad —including friends Blake Lively , Ryan Reynolds , Sophie Turner , Hugh Jackman , Sabrina Carpenter and Antoni Porowski —to watch the Chiefs play against the New York Jets at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

October 2023: It's Nice to Have a Friend

Another sign that Travis could be The 1 ? Taylor started bonding with Brittany Mahomes —the wife of Travis' BFF and teammate Patrick Mahomes —in and outside of NFL games .

October 2023: Welcome to New York

The couple took their romance to TV, making a surprise appearance on the Oct. 14 episode of Saturday Night Live . Their Big Apple takeover also included the after-party for the NBC sketch show and a date night at the Waverly Inn .

November 2023: Karma Is Her Boyfriend

During a bye week, Travis traveled down to Argentina to catch the South American leg of Taylor's Eras Tour. Not only did the NFL star bond with Taylor's dad , Scott Swift , at the Nov. 11 show in Buenos Aires, but he also got a special shoutout from the stage.

" Karma is that guy on the Chiefs ," Taylor sang, "coming straight home to me."

After the show, the Midnights  artist was seen running up to Travis backstage and greeting him with a passionate kiss .

December 2024: Speak Now

Taylor addressed the lavender craze surrounding her appearances at Travis' games.

"I'm going to see him do what he loves, we're showing up for each other, other people are there and we don't care," she told Time . "The opposite of that is you have to go to an extreme amount of effort to make sure no one knows that you're seeing someone."

December 2023: You, Who Charmed Her Dad

The music superstar turned Travis' Dec. 17 game into a family affair, bringing her dad to cheer on her man .

January 2024: All the Midnights

Taylor and Travis spent their first New Year's Eve together, sharing a romantic kiss when the clock struck midnight on Jan. 1.

January 2024: Chosen Family

Continuing to bond with Travis' family, Taylor hung out with his brother Jason Kelce and sister-in-law Kylie Kelce at the Chiefs' game against the Buffalo Bills.

January 2024: Saved by the Perfect Kiss

Taylor joined Travis on the football field when the Chiefs won the AFC Championship , a victory that cemented the team's spot in the 2024 Super Bowl . The couple shared a celebratory kiss before exchanging the L-word .

"Tay, I'm gonna enjoy with the guys," he told her. "I love you—so much it's not funny."

February 2024: Super Bowl Champs

The pair locked lips on the field after Travis led the Kansas City Chiefs to victory on Feb. 11, 2024 in Las Vegas.

February 2024: TikTok Official

Taylor posted footage of Travis on social media for the first time Feb. 12, poking fun at how she took her parents clubbing with the athlete after the Super Bowl.

June 2024: Instagram Official

Taylor's first Instagram pic featuring Travis was a selfie of the two with  Prince William and his and wife  Kate Middleton 's eldest kids  Prince George and  Princess Charlotte backstage at the singer's Eras tour show at Wembley Stadium in London.

June 2024: Travis' Eras Tour Stage Debut

While attending his seventh Eras tour concert, and second show at London's Wembley Stadium, the NFL star joined his girlfriend onstage as a backup performer during her performance of "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart."

Taylor Swift kicks off London Eras tour dates with Keir Starmer in the Wembley Stadium audience

The US megastar was supported by her NFL boyfriend, Travis Kelce, as she performed the first of three consecutive gigs at the 90,000-capacity north London venue.

Saturday 22 June 2024 08:57, UK

Taylor Swift has kicked off her London Eras tour dates in front of a sold-out Wembley Stadium – with Sir Keir Starmer among fans in attendance.

Friday night's concert was the first of three dates the pop megastar is performing at the 90,000-capacity venue.

The Eras tour will then move on to mainland Europe, before Swift returns to Wembley for another five dates in August.

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Swift's boyfriend Travis Kelce was in the audience to cheer her on, alongside his recently retired brother Jason, who was seen exchanging friendship bracelets with fans in pictures shared online.

Other celebs in attendance included Queer Eye's Jonathan Van Ness, Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan and model Cara Delevingne.

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Tiger Woods sends PGA Tour Champions into a frenzy of preparation as he hints participation after turning 50

F or several seasons now, Tiger Woods has been far from the results that made him the best golfer in the world. His participation in tournaments has also been decreasing for various reasons. However, Woods could now be preparing to take the next step in his career.

According to a report by Golfweek's Adam Schupak, Tiger Woods is preparing to participate on the PGA Tour Champions circuit once he is eligible, that is, after his 50th birthday. Woods will turn 50 in December 2025.

The reporter quoted Padraig Harrington , one of the Senior Tour stars, who said:

"He'd love to win that Grand Slam and get some of the other senior majors on his CV. I saw him at the course (during the 2023 PNC Championship) and we were just crossing paths and he laughed at me. I won't say exactly what he said but the gist of it was he can't wait to get out and beat me."

Tiger Woods would be eligible to participate in the 2026 US Senior Open, which could be his first Major in the new category. This could also be the stage for two new records for the legendary player.

Tiger Woods is currently tied with Bobby Jones as the player with the most USGA national titles, with 9 each. If Woods wins the U.S. Senior Open, he would hold the all-time record.

Tiger Woods would also become the only player in history to win the US Junior, US Amateur, US Open and US Senior Open.

Why would Tiger Woods be eligible for the 2026 US Senior Open?

The 2026 US Senior Open will be played at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. Tiger Woods will have turned 50 in December 2025, so he will qualify through one of the exemption categories to play the Major.

One of the exemptions for the US Senior Open is having won any of the Major Championships in the last 10 years. Woods won the Masters in 2019, so he is eligible for that tournament.

The US Senior Open has been played since 1980 and most of the players who have shined in the open category have won it. Among them are Gary Player, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, and Jack Nicklaus.

The PGA Tour Champions, formerly known as the Senior PGA Tour and Champions Tour, was founded in 1980, although events in the Senior category have been played since the 1930s. The Senior PGA Championship, founded in 1937, stands out.

Since then, the Senior circuit has been consolidated with several tournaments that have become traditional. Five Majors have also been added to the Senior Tour.

Greg Gutfeld will do Fox News show live in Milwaukee during Republican National Convention

Another late-night talk show is coming to the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.

Fox News Channel announced Tuesday that commentator/comedian Greg Gutfeld will do his show "Gutfeld!" live from the network's set in the Deer District July 15-18, with a live studio audience.

"Gutfeld!" airs at 10 p.m. on Fox News Channel, and will immediately follow the channel's live coverage of the RNC, which will be anchored at Fiserv Forum and the Baird Center.

Gutfeld and panelist Kat Timpf will be joined by three guests each night, offering "commentary on news from the convention and other headlines of the day often through a satirical lens," Fox News said in a statement.

According to Fox News, "Gutfeld!" this year is averaging more than 2.2 million viewers, its highest ratings ever. The cable news channel recently extended Gutfeld's contract.

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Fox News is broadcasting its coverage of the RNC in Milwaukee from Gather at Deer District, the space across the plaza from Fiserv Forum. Both the arena and the Deer District are inside the "hard" security zone set up for the convention. The zone will be controlled by the Secret Service during the convention, with credentials required to enter the area.

"Gutfeld!" is the latest late-night show to plant its flag at the RNC in Milwaukee. Comedy Central's "The Daily Show" is planning to tape its shows i n Milwaukee during the convention at the Marcus Performing Arts Center. Longtime host Jon Stewart, who returned to the show for weekly appearances earlier this year, will host the show on July 18, the convention's final night.

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'Twister' actor Helen Hunt on board for Q&A in Indianapolis

Actress Helen Hunt will take part in a live interview and audience Q&A after a screening of the disaster action blockbuster film  “Twister” at the Old National Centre, 502 N. New Jersey in Indianapolis.

During the Sept. 29 event, Hunt will share behind-the-scenes stories, insights and personal anecdotes about making the storm chasing movie.

The film was the second highest grossing movie of 1996, with $495 million, and was the theme of a Sega Pinball machine and a ride at Universal Studios Florida.

A sequel, " Twisters ," will be released in July.

Hunt, also a writer, director, and producer, currently has a recurring role on the Max series “Hacks.”

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She starred as the character Jamie Buchman on the 1992-1999 TV sitcom, “Mad About You,” nabbing Emmy awards for lead actress for four consecutive years as well as three Golden Globe awards for the role.

She won an Academy Award as lead actress the 1997 romantic comedy “As Good as it Gets.”

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How to get tickets for 'Twister' screening with Helen Hunt

Presale tickets for the conversation with Hunt and "Twister" screening — $29.95 to $79.95, regular; $179.95 for VIP Meet & Greet — will be available from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. June 26 with code HELEN.

Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. June 28 at oldnationalcentre.com . 

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Contact IndyStar reporter Cheryl V. Jackson at [email protected] or 317-444-6264. Follow her on X.com: @cherylvjackson .

40 Facts About Elektrostal

Written by Lanette Mayes

Modified & Updated: 01 Jun 2024

Reviewed by Jessica Corbett

Elektrostal is a vibrant city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia. With a rich history, stunning architecture, and a thriving community, Elektrostal is a city that has much to offer. Whether you are a history buff, nature enthusiast, or simply curious about different cultures, Elektrostal is sure to captivate you.

This article will provide you with 40 fascinating facts about Elektrostal, giving you a better understanding of why this city is worth exploring. From its origins as an industrial hub to its modern-day charm, we will delve into the various aspects that make Elektrostal a unique and must-visit destination.

So, join us as we uncover the hidden treasures of Elektrostal and discover what makes this city a true gem in the heart of Russia.

Key Takeaways:

• Elektrostal, known as the “Motor City of Russia,” is a vibrant and growing city with a rich industrial history, offering diverse cultural experiences and a strong commitment to environmental sustainability.
• With its convenient location near Moscow, Elektrostal provides a picturesque landscape, vibrant nightlife, and a range of recreational activities, making it an ideal destination for residents and visitors alike.

Known as the “Motor City of Russia.”

Elektrostal, a city located in the Moscow Oblast region of Russia, earned the nickname “Motor City” due to its significant involvement in the automotive industry.

Home to the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Elektrostal is renowned for its metallurgical plant, which has been producing high-quality steel and alloys since its establishment in 1916.

Boasts a rich industrial heritage.

Elektrostal has a long history of industrial development, contributing to the growth and progress of the region.

Founded in 1916.

The city of Elektrostal was founded in 1916 as a result of the construction of the Elektrostal Metallurgical Plant.

Located approximately 50 kilometers east of Moscow.

Elektrostal is situated in close proximity to the Russian capital, making it easily accessible for both residents and visitors.

Known for its vibrant cultural scene.

Elektrostal is home to several cultural institutions, including museums, theaters, and art galleries that showcase the city’s rich artistic heritage.

A popular destination for nature lovers.

Surrounded by picturesque landscapes and forests, Elektrostal offers ample opportunities for outdoor activities such as hiking, camping, and birdwatching.

Hosts the annual Elektrostal City Day celebrations.

Every year, Elektrostal organizes festive events and activities to celebrate its founding, bringing together residents and visitors in a spirit of unity and joy.

Has a population of approximately 160,000 people.

Elektrostal is home to a diverse and vibrant community of around 160,000 residents, contributing to its dynamic atmosphere.

Boasts excellent education facilities.

The city is known for its well-established educational institutions, providing quality education to students of all ages.

A center for scientific research and innovation.

Elektrostal serves as an important hub for scientific research, particularly in the fields of metallurgy , materials science, and engineering.

Surrounded by picturesque lakes.

The city is blessed with numerous beautiful lakes , offering scenic views and recreational opportunities for locals and visitors alike.

Well-connected transportation system.

Elektrostal benefits from an efficient transportation network, including highways, railways, and public transportation options, ensuring convenient travel within and beyond the city.

Famous for its traditional Russian cuisine.

Food enthusiasts can indulge in authentic Russian dishes at numerous restaurants and cafes scattered throughout Elektrostal.

Home to notable architectural landmarks.

Elektrostal boasts impressive architecture, including the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Elektrostal Palace of Culture.

Offers a wide range of recreational facilities.

Residents and visitors can enjoy various recreational activities, such as sports complexes, swimming pools, and fitness centers, enhancing the overall quality of life.

Provides a high standard of healthcare.

Elektrostal is equipped with modern medical facilities, ensuring residents have access to quality healthcare services.

Home to the Elektrostal History Museum.

The Elektrostal History Museum showcases the city’s fascinating past through exhibitions and displays.

A hub for sports enthusiasts.

Elektrostal is passionate about sports, with numerous stadiums, arenas, and sports clubs offering opportunities for athletes and spectators.

Celebrates diverse cultural festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal hosts a variety of cultural festivals, celebrating different ethnicities, traditions, and art forms.

Electric power played a significant role in its early development.

Elektrostal owes its name and initial growth to the establishment of electric power stations and the utilization of electricity in the industrial sector.

Boasts a thriving economy.

The city’s strong industrial base, coupled with its strategic location near Moscow, has contributed to Elektrostal’s prosperous economic status.

Houses the Elektrostal Drama Theater.

The Elektrostal Drama Theater is a cultural centerpiece, attracting theater enthusiasts from far and wide.

Popular destination for winter sports.

Elektrostal’s proximity to ski resorts and winter sport facilities makes it a favorite destination for skiing, snowboarding, and other winter activities.

Promotes environmental sustainability.

Elektrostal prioritizes environmental protection and sustainability, implementing initiatives to reduce pollution and preserve natural resources.

Home to renowned educational institutions.

Elektrostal is known for its prestigious schools and universities, offering a wide range of academic programs to students.

Committed to cultural preservation.

The city values its cultural heritage and takes active steps to preserve and promote traditional customs, crafts, and arts.

Hosts an annual International Film Festival.

The Elektrostal International Film Festival attracts filmmakers and cinema enthusiasts from around the world, showcasing a diverse range of films.

Encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Elektrostal supports aspiring entrepreneurs and fosters a culture of innovation, providing opportunities for startups and business development .

Offers a range of housing options.

Elektrostal provides diverse housing options, including apartments, houses, and residential complexes, catering to different lifestyles and budgets.

Home to notable sports teams.

Elektrostal is proud of its sports legacy , with several successful sports teams competing at regional and national levels.

Boasts a vibrant nightlife scene.

Residents and visitors can enjoy a lively nightlife in Elektrostal, with numerous bars, clubs, and entertainment venues.

Promotes cultural exchange and international relations.

Elektrostal actively engages in international partnerships, cultural exchanges, and diplomatic collaborations to foster global connections.

Surrounded by beautiful nature reserves.

Nearby nature reserves, such as the Barybino Forest and Luchinskoye Lake, offer opportunities for nature enthusiasts to explore and appreciate the region’s biodiversity.

Commemorates historical events.

The city pays tribute to significant historical events through memorials, monuments, and exhibitions, ensuring the preservation of collective memory.

Promotes sports and youth development.

Elektrostal invests in sports infrastructure and programs to encourage youth participation, health, and physical fitness.

Hosts annual cultural and artistic festivals.

Throughout the year, Elektrostal celebrates its cultural diversity through festivals dedicated to music, dance, art, and theater.

Provides a picturesque landscape for photography enthusiasts.

The city’s scenic beauty, architectural landmarks, and natural surroundings make it a paradise for photographers.

Connects to Moscow via a direct train line.

The convenient train connection between Elektrostal and Moscow makes commuting between the two cities effortless.

A city with a bright future.

Elektrostal continues to grow and develop, aiming to become a model city in terms of infrastructure, sustainability, and quality of life for its residents.

In conclusion, Elektrostal is a fascinating city with a rich history and a vibrant present. From its origins as a center of steel production to its modern-day status as a hub for education and industry, Elektrostal has plenty to offer both residents and visitors. With its beautiful parks, cultural attractions, and proximity to Moscow, there is no shortage of things to see and do in this dynamic city. Whether you’re interested in exploring its historical landmarks, enjoying outdoor activities, or immersing yourself in the local culture, Elektrostal has something for everyone. So, next time you find yourself in the Moscow region, don’t miss the opportunity to discover the hidden gems of Elektrostal.

Q: What is the population of Elektrostal?

A: As of the latest data, the population of Elektrostal is approximately XXXX.

Q: How far is Elektrostal from Moscow?

A: Elektrostal is located approximately XX kilometers away from Moscow.

Q: Are there any famous landmarks in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to several notable landmarks, including XXXX and XXXX.

Q: What industries are prominent in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal is known for its steel production industry and is also a center for engineering and manufacturing.

Q: Are there any universities or educational institutions in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal is home to XXXX University and several other educational institutions.

Q: What are some popular outdoor activities in Elektrostal?

A: Elektrostal offers several outdoor activities, such as hiking, cycling, and picnicking in its beautiful parks.

Q: Is Elektrostal well-connected in terms of transportation?

A: Yes, Elektrostal has good transportation links, including trains and buses, making it easily accessible from nearby cities.

Q: Are there any annual events or festivals in Elektrostal?

A: Yes, Elektrostal hosts various events and festivals throughout the year, including XXXX and XXXX.

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