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Selling more tickets requires the right context

Phantom is the CRM for the next generation of concert promoters. It gives you the tools you need to understand when, how, and why fans buy, so you can make better show marketing decisions.

Illustration: the Phantom event dashboard, showing a daily sales chart with a projected finish, tickets sold against capacity, and gross revenue.
Killswitch Engage
Sat, Aug 22 · The Bright Box Theater · 2,288 cap
On sale

Sales to date

Ticketweb
Tickets sold1,617
71% of 2,288
Gross revenue$124,509$77 avg ticket
Sold today3
Revenue today$231

Projection

from 8 past events
Est. tickets at show2,131likely 1,962–2,288
Est. sell-through93%of 2,288 capacity
PacingAhead +9%vs similar shows at 26 days out
Sales pick upAug 8when the walk-up ramp starts

Daily sales

Tickets by day
Tickets soldProjectedLikely range
Works with
DICEEtixEventbriteEventimHoldMyTicketHumanitixOpendatePrekindleTicketwebTickeriTixrVenuePilot…or a CSV

Projections, not vibes

Every upcoming show gets a projected finish with a likely range, anchored to how your own past shows sold.

Every ticketer, one view

API sync, scheduled spreadsheets, or a forwarded nightly report email. Sales land in one dashboard.

Ask, and see the numbers

Type the question you'd ask your team. Phantom AI answers with the numbers it used, not a guess.

Own your audience

Buyers become contacts with consent tracked per channel, feeding emails built to land in primary inboxes.

Phantom AI

Ask the question. Get the numbers.

Phantom AI answers from your own sales, costs, and ad spend, and every answer comes back as a card you can check.

Business check-in

Where the business stands this month and this quarter, how the next two months are pacing, and which shows need you.

Illustration: a business check-in card comparing tickets, gross, and sell-through across three periods, with the shows that need attention.

Business check-in

through Jul 26
Last30 days90 days
Tickets sold4,912▲18%13,640
Gross$158.3K▲9%$441.9K
Shows played1544
Sell-through74%▲4 pts71%
Past breakeven11 of 1429 of 38
Arrows on 30 days compare with the 30 days before
Next 60 days · 24 shows5 short of breakeven
8 ahead9 on pace4 behind3 no forecast yet
Needs attention
Fontaines D.C.Aug 14 · 14% behind pace · 112 to breakeven
Godspeed You! Black EmperorSep 5 · 64 to breakeven
Sales comparison

This month against the last: tickets and gross, with each day side by side.

Illustration: a sales comparison card with tickets and gross against the previous period and daily bars.

Sales lift

Jun 27 – Jul 26 vs May 28 – Jun 26
Tickets sold4,912▲ 18% from 4,163
Gross$158,300▲ 9% from $145,230
Avg ticket$32.23▼ 8%
Shows selling31was 27
Tickets per day
This periodPrevious
Jun 27Jul 12Jul 26
Did ads move sales?

Sales before and after your ad spend changed, with the gross change split into more tickets versus different prices.

Illustration: an ad impact card comparing sales and ad spend before and after.

Ad impact

Jun 27 – Jul 26 vs May 28 – Jun 26
MeasureBeforeAfterChange
Tickets sold4,1634,912▲ 18%
Gross$145,230$158,300▲ 9%
Avg ticket$34.89$32.23▼ 8%
Shows selling / day9.811.4
Ad spend$2,300$6,420▲ 179%
Where the gross change came from
+$26,133 from more tickets−$13,063 from lower prices
Extra gross per extra ad $$3.17
Ad cost per extra ticket$5.50
Decisions

Built for the questions you ask every week

Instead of bouncing between ticketing platforms, ad dashboards, spreadsheets, and Slack threads, everything a decision needs sits in one view.

Are tickets actually underperforming, or is this a normal sales curve?

Your own past shows set the baseline, so a quiet week reads as genuinely behind, or as exactly where this room always is at this point.

Should we keep spending now, or save budget for closer to show day?

Ad spend sits on the same daily chart as sales, and the phase your show is in says whether demand is still ahead of you or already spent.

How is this show pacing against similar events we've run before?

Every projection names the comparable shows behind it, each with a visible match score. Same room, similar capacity, overlapping lineups.

Can booking and marketing look at the same numbers and reach the same conclusion?

One workspace, one set of numbers: talent buyers, marketers, and operators read the same sales, costs, and campaign performance.

Forecasts

Your history is the model

No black box. Every projection names the past shows behind it.

Comparables you can audit

Projections are built from your most similar past shows: same room, same genres, same pacing shape. Each one carries a visible match score.

Illustration: a list of comparable past shows, each with a match score and final ticket count.

Comparable events

Projection from 8 past events
EventFinal ticketsMatch
Social DistortionOct 9, 2024 · The Bright Box Theater
Punk RockRock
2,027 · 90%94%
Fontaines D.C.May 15, 2025 · The Bright Box Theater
Post-PunkRock
2,245 · 100%88%
Godspeed You! Black EmperorJun 28, 2025 · Grand Hall
Post-Rock
833 · 71%81%
Modest MouseJun 5, 2026 · The Bright Box Theater
Indie RockAlternative
2,245 · 99%76%

Know if you're ahead before it's late

Pacing compares today's sell-through to where those same shows stood at this distance from show day, so you know when to push spend and when to save it for the closeout.

Illustration: a pacing badge showing an upcoming show tracking ahead of comparable shows.

Pacing vs. comparables

Ahead +9%
Sold so far71%of the room
Similar shows by now~65%8 past events, 26 days out

Daily sales should pick up around Aug 8, when these shows' walk-up ramp began.

Matched onMetalPunk RockRock
Announce
On sale
Maintenance
Closeout
Phase windows tuned from your own history: on-sale 14d, closeout 12d.
Marketing

Turn buyers into next show's walk-up

Announce emails that fill themselves, sent to people who actually open them, with consent and deliverability built in.

Emails that assemble themselves

Event-list blocks pull from your calendar at send time, so nobody re-types dates, venues, or a hard-to-spell headliner. A weekly announce email that's never stale, with your brand resolved automatically.

Illustration: an announce email assembled automatically from upcoming events.

Just announced

Repeats every Monday
PHANTOM PRESENTS
JUST ANNOUNCED
Rainbow Kitten Surprise — bones Tour
Fri Sep 4 · The Bright Box Theater
Tickets
Djo — Another Bite Tour
Sat Sep 26 · Grand Hall
Tickets
You're receiving this because you opted in · Unsubscribe

Every fan rated by how loud they listen

Opens, clicks, and ticket purchases roll into a 1–5 rating on every contact. Audiences target the fans who show up, quiet ones sunset automatically, and consent is respected per channel. That's what keeps your domain out of the promotions tab.

Illustration: a contact list where each fan carries a one-to-five engagement rating.

Audience

Indie buyers near the Bright Box
Email opt-inBought tickets in last 12 moGenre: IndieRating 🔊 4+
Estimated recipients4,812
Left out1,306no consent, unsubscribed, or gone quiet
Maya R.12 shows · opens everything
Devon K.Bought tickets last month
Sam T.Gone quiet — auto-excluded
Consent is tracked per channel, so email and SMS opt-ins never mix.
Profit optimization

Every show a P&L, not a guess

Costs, bar revenue, and ad spend land next to ticket sales, so breakeven and acquisition cost are live numbers, not settlement-week surprises.

Costs in, breakeven live

Pull costs in from your existing accounting software, bar sales from Square, or itemize your own. Phantom solves breakeven from the real cost structure and tracks net as tickets sell.

Illustration: an event cost breakdown with a live breakeven ticket count.

Costs & breakeven

Prism · Square · Manual
Breakeven429 tickets715 sold · cleared 🎉
Net at current sales+$14,200every ticket from here is margin
Est. total costs$21,3009 line items
Margin / ticket$20at today's sell-through
Headliner guaranteeArtist Payment · Prism
$12,500
Production & backlineProduction · Prism
$4,800
Marketing budgetMarketing · Manual
$2,600
Bar sales$3,180 net$4.45 / personSquare · settles the morning after

Know your ad spend is working

Link the campaigns behind a show and spend lands on the daily sales chart, with cost per ticket by campaign, so you can tell promotion that moves tickets from budget that just burns.

Illustration: linked ad campaigns showing spend beside ticket sales.

Ad campaigns

Linked fromRadical
All3Active2Scheduled1Paused0Completed0
Ad spend$1,240Meta · Spotify · TikTok
Est. acquisition cost$1.73ad spend ÷ tickets sold
On-sale pushActiveMeta · 148 purchases · $4.19 each
$620
Maintenance retargetingActiveSpotify · spend on the sales chart, day by day
$280
Closeout pushScheduledTikTok · flighted for the final week
$340
Data in

Every sale, whatever the ticketer

Phantom meets your ticketing where it is: full API, spreadsheet, or a nightly report email.

Connected platforms stay fresh

Hourly sync pulls sales, orders, and buyer contacts straight from every connected ticketer, so counts and revenue come from the source. It heals itself when a show closes out.

Illustration: connected ticketing platforms with their last sync times.

Connected ticketing

Syncs hourly
DICE128 events · sales & buyers
Synced 4 min ago
Etix342 events · sales & buyers
Synced 12 min ago
Eventbrite96 events · sales & buyers
Synced 26 min ago
Tixr210 events · sales & buyers
Synced 18 min ago
TicketmasterDaily sales from the nightly report email
Email report
Everything elseOne-off or scheduled spreadsheet imports
CSV

No API? Forward the email.

Your workspace gets a private inbound address. Point the ticketer's scheduled sales report at it and each night's numbers parse into daily sales, with no copy-pasting.

Illustration: a forwarded nightly sales report email being parsed into daily sales.
From
reports@ticketmaster.com
To
reports-x7k2fq9b@tickets.itsphantom.com
Subject
Sales Trends — Week of Aug 10
XLSXSales-Trends.xlsx
parsed automatically
Daily salesImported · 3 days updated
Aug 1241 tickets$1,640
Aug 1338 tickets$1,520
Aug 1452 tickets$2,080
FAQ

Common questions

The short version of how Phantom fits into a promoter's stack.

See where your next show lands.

Connect a ticketer and Phantom starts projecting from your very first sync.