Williams: Ticket sales are only half of Fun Fun Fun Fest's revenue
Graham Williams · How Fun Fun Fun Fest Went From 3,000 to 16,000 Attendees in Under 5 Years, EP 275 - Graham Williams · Jun 10, 2016 · at 7:14
Graham Williams, founder of Transmission Events and promoter of Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest, discusses the festival's revenue breakdown with Nathan Latka.
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“Tickets alone are probably about half of what we pull in. So I, it's not in front of me. It's hard to say. I want to say there's like one to two million in ticket sales.”
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