Foule dans la nuit à un concert à Paléo Festival

© Timon Bachmann, Paléo Festival 2024

Paleo Festival

Complete overhaul of an internal press interaction management application for the Paléo Festival

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Customer

Paleo Festival

Date

January 2025

– context

Mease, the press relations manager for Paléo 🎶

Each year, the Paléo Festival in Nyon welcomes over 250,000 visitors and several hundred journalists from around the world. Media management requires rigorous organization to handle all requests for interviews, audio and video recordings, and photo permissions.

In order to optimize this complex process, Paléo commissioned backtik for the complete redesign of the Mease application, whose mission is to centralize and streamline interactions between the festival's press teams and the hundreds of journalists, photographers and media technicians.

Lumières rouges sur la scène principale de Paléo de nuit
© Timon Bachmann, Paléo Festival 2024
Foule entre deux scènes à Paléo Festival
© Lucie Gertsch, Paléo Festival 2024
Grande foule de nuit au concert de Mika à Paléo Festival
© Ludwig Wallendorff, Paléo Festival 2024

– goals

Backstage in transition:
the challenges of the Mease redesign

In a complex environment like that of the Paléo Festival, a precise understanding of the challenges related to using the Mease platform was essential. These challenges, detailed below, formed the basis of our strategic and technical thinking.

Technical legacy

Modernizing an existing application with outdated technologies was a major challenge. Our expertise enabled us to update the application with modern technologies without disrupting existing business processes.

Workflow complexity

Designing an intuitive interface capable of efficiently managing multiple approval processes, involving both external and internal stakeholders, was a real challenge. The user experience (UX) was designed to ensure clear and functional navigation.

Scalable solution

Mease needed to be easily adaptable to other festivals, but also to manage multiple editions and their history. The challenge was to design a flexible and modular architecture, ready to easily adapt to the specific needs of other events and festivals.

The solution of backtik

Based on a thorough understanding of the business and technical challenges, we have implemented a complete and flexible solution capable of simplifying the management of media flows for the Paléo Festival.

Mease is based on a methodical approach that incorporates clearly defined user journeys, addressing each previously identified challenge. This allows us to offer media professionals and festival administrators an optimal user experience.

– key features

Festival setup

This module allows you to structure all the key elements of the Festival: artists, stages, concerts, users and roles, in order to ensure smooth and automated processing of media requests.

  • Creation of the scenes, artists and concert program
  • Automatic association of artists with their record label or Paléo contact person
  • Configuring access and privileges for each user type

Interview management

This dedicated module allows journalists to easily request interviews, including the ability to add details (video/photo format, interpreter required).

  • Quick and transparent validation by Paléo or record labels
  • Automatic notifications about status changes
  • Direct export to calendar (.ics) and Excel

TV rights and photos

This module centralizes the management of rights related to the audiovisual and photographic content of each concert, facilitating the processing, validation and transmission of video and audio excerpts and photo requests for editorial use.

  • Generation, editing and archiving of contracts and transfer forms
  • Grouping and validation of requests for access to the photo pit
Personnes devant deux écrans, utilisant MeasePersonne à un bureau utilisant Mease
Scène colorée au coucher de soleil à Paléo Festival
© Lucie Gertsch, Paléo Festival 2024
The entire backtik team dedicated themselves to our project with passion and professionalism. Efficient, attentive, and always smiling, their support has been invaluable for the digitalization of the Paléo Festival's operations. The beginning of a wonderful adventure!
Portrait de Bastien Bento, responsable Presse de Paléo

Bastien Bento

Head of the press office
Smartphone qui fait tourner Mease avec un badge de presse PaléoUn homme dans un open space qui travaille sur Mease
Spectacle de drônes dessinant un coeur à Paléo Festival
© Ludwig Wallendorff, Paléo Festival 2024
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