Craicatoa Comedy
We are a new organisation that organise and run comedy nights and events in Scotland. Our goals are to improve opportunities for new stand-up comedians to perform beside (and learn from) more established and experienced comedians while bringing these nights and events to venues within communities that would otherwise have to travel further to attend them.
We spend a lot of our time and efforts promoting our shows and would be happy to include advertisements/promotions of the right sponsor within this and at our events.
Target Audience
Our venues are predominantly Bars/Pubs so our audience is generally over 18s.
We choose our line-ups to have a wide appeal to all age-groups beyond that and we find that comedy audiences can be quite diverse.
Our nights are designed to appeal to couples, work team evenings, people looking to de-stress through laughter after work and groups of friends generally.
We work with our venues to promote food purchases pre-show which also creates a good atmosphere and makes for an excellent date-night.
Key Dates and Timings
We have regular events, running quarterly at one venue (with the intention to increase that to bi-monthly in 2016) and monthly at our other current venue, with a lot of scope for running other nights/events there and at sister venues, with one additional pre-Fringe promotional show already booked. We would ideally like an ongoing sponsorship but are very amenable to other proposals.
Specific Opportunity Details
We have only recently started out but we’ve had good success so far and very positive feedback. We are currently providing regular shows for popular venues in Coatbridge and Glasgow City Centre. We ran some shows at the Glasgow International Comedy Festival in March and are working on bringing a show promoting new female stand-up comedians to the Edinburgh Fringe.
We are working on increasing our online reach and have been running ads via Instagram and Facebook and with help from our venues who co-host our online promotional posts giving us visibility through their online following. Sponsorship would allow us to increase this reach and potentially expand into more communities. The venues and people we work with are very important to us, we see having good relationships with them as paramount to our future success.
Features and Benefits
We are very happy to promote the right sponsors’ branding and advertise them along side our promotions (even separately). We are open to discussing hospitality ticket deals also.
Other Partners
Our current venues are Owen’s Bar in Coatbridge and Committee Room #9 in Glasgow City Centre (Owned by Scotsman Group). Other than that we have no affiliation to any brands.
Investment
We are primarily looking for cash investment to increase reach and opportunities for comedians and communities to participate in comedy nights while boosting business for local venues.