Media Coverage

2025 Media Coverage

• Australasian Leisure Management – Call for 2025 speakers – 22 January 2025
• CIM Business Events – AFIC call out for speakers – 22 January 2025
• CX Magazine – Call for speakers for 2025 event – 22 January 2025

2024 Media Coverage

• Pollstar – Australasian News – AFIC returns – 20 December 2024
• CX Magazine – AFIC returns in 2025 – 13 December 2024
• The Music Network – AFIC sets 2025 event in Brisbane – 11 December 2024
• Australasian Leisure Management – AFIC announces return in 2025 – 11 December 2024
• CIM Business Events – AFIC announces 2025 dates – 11 December 2024
• Pollstar – Festival industry conference takes a break in 2024 – 19 January 2024
• TheMusic.com.au – Festival industry conference delayed. Set to return in 2025 – 12 January 2024
• Australasian Leisure Management – pauses for a break in 2024. Set to return in 2025 – 12 January 2024
• CX Magazine – AFIC returns in 2025 – 11 January 2024
• CIM Business Events – AFIC set to return in 2025 – 11 January 2024

2023 Media Coverage

• CIM Business Events – Interview with Carlina Ericson: the evolution of AFIC – 26 September 2023
• Pollstar – Australasia News – 22 September 2023
• TheMusic.com.au – 6 takeaways from AFIC – 15 September 2023
• Spice News – Calls for festival industry to evolve to create contemporary and authentic experiences – 13 September 2023
• CX Magazine – AFIC 2023 hailed a success – 6 September
• Australasian Leisure Management – AFIC 2023 hailed a success – 4 September
• Patternmakers – Industry news wrap up – 25 July
• The Mixdown – Industry news wrap up – 25 July
• Spice News – AFIC 2023 program announced – 20 June
• CIM Business Events – Australian Festival Industry Conference unveils full program – 19 June
• CX magazine – AFIC unveils conference program – 16 June
• The Mixdown – Industry news wrap up – 13 June
• Music Festivals Australia – AFIC expands its line-up – 1 May
• CIM Business Events – Australian Festival Industry Conference adds to speaker line-up – 28 April
• CX Magazine – AFIC announces more speakers for its 2023 event – 28 April
• Australasian Leisure Management – speaker line-up announced for Australian Festival Industry Conference 2023 – 28 April
• VIP Booking – AFIC moves to Sydney in 2023 – 14 April
• Pollstar – Australasia News – Festival Industry Conference – 7 April
• CIM Business Events – Parrtjima’s Rhoda Roberts and Anthony Bastic to speak at Australian Festival Industry Conference – 14 March

2022 Media Coverage

• Music Festivals Australia – AFIC announce 2023 dates – 23 December
• The Music Network – 7 Key takeaways from the Australian Festival Industry Conference 2022 – 12 September
• Spice News – Australian Festival Industry Conference celebrates record attendance – 8 September
• CIM Business Events – Australian Festival Industry Conference wraps with ‘overwhelmingly positive’ feedback – 7 September
• Australasian Leisure Management – AUSTRALIAN FESTIVAL INDUSTRY CONFERENCE CHARTS KEY FUTURE DIRECTIONS – 6 September
• The Music Network – How Labor’s Jobs and Skills Summit Could Impact the Australian Music Business – 4 September
• The Music Network – Making Festivals Inclusive & Accessible – 19 August
• The Music Network – Combating Skills Shortages in the Events Sector: ‘A Crisis’ – 28 July
• CIM Business Events: interview with Thea Jeanes-Cochrane – 18 July
• The Music Network: interview with Gill Minervini – Vivid Director Gill Minervini On Glowing Up the Festival’s Creativity for 2023 – 15 July
• CIM Business Events: interview with Carlina Ericson – what to expect at this year’s conference – 7 July
• Spice News: Speakers announced for Australian Festival Industry Conference – 16 June
• Australasian Leisure Management: Industry feedback sees Australian Festival Industry Conference add workforce skills and labour shortages discussion to program
• CIM Business Events: Workforce shortage up for discussion at Australian Festival Industry Conference – 9 June
• Pollstar: Australia News: Sydney Olympic Park; Insurer Drops Pill Testing; Festival Conference Returns; NZ Caps Lifted – 29 April
• Spice News: Australian Festival Industry Conference announces 2022 program – 26 April
• CX Magazine: AUSTRALIAN FESTIVAL INDUSTRY CONFERENCE RELEASES 2022 PROGRAM OF EVENTS – 25 April
• Australasian Special Events: The Australian Festival Industry Conference unveils 2022 program – 21 April
• The Industry Observer: More Australian Live Music Festivals Are Returning, But Challenges Remain – 22 April
• CIM Business Events: Australian Festival Industry Conference unveils 2022 program – 21 April

2021 Media Coverage

• Gig Nation Australia: Australian Festival Industry Conference announces further postponement – 8 September
• Australasian Leisure Management: Lockdown sees cancellation of AFIC Conference – 6 September
• CIM Business Events: Australian Festival Industry Conference postpones to 2022 – 6 September
• Spice News: Australian Festival Industry Conference postponed to 2022 – 6 September
• CX Magazine: Australian Festival Industry Conference  postpones to August 2022 – 6 September
• The Music Network: Australian Festival Industry Conference reschedules to 2022 – 6 September
• The Industry Observer: Australian Festival Industry Conference pushed back to 2022 – 6 September
• Spice News: How the Sydney and Melbourne lockdowns are impacting events all over Australia – 20 July
• Australasian Special Events: AFIC postpones to November 2021 – 16 July
• CX Magazine: Australian Festival Industry Conference postpones to November – 16 July
• CIM Business Events: AFIC postpones to November 2021 – 16 July
• The Music Network: AFIC Postpones to November 2021 – 16 July
• The Music Network: What will it take for the festival scene to return? – 16 June
• ArtsHub: Weekly Industry News Wrap Up – 11 June
• Pollstar: Festival Industry Conference Names More Speakers – 27 May
• The Music Network: Peter Noble joins the all-star line-up – 27 May
• ArtsHub: Weekly Industry News Wrap up – 21 May
• CIM Business Events: AFIC releases full program – 18 May
• The Music Network: AFIC Launches 2021 Conference Program – 18 May
• CX Magazine: AFIC Launches Full Conference Program – 18 May
• Global Travel Media: Gold Coast to host festival industry conference – 27 March 
• Australasian Leisure Management: Gold Coast plans to lead economic recovery of Australia’s festival industry – 23 March
• InQLD: Gold Coast’s $200m plan to lead festival industry out of Covid gloom – 23 March
• The Music Network: 21 festivals to inject $200m into Gold Coast economy this year – 23 March
• News Leads: Gold Coast to host festival industry conference – 22 March
• CIM Business Events: Gold Coast spearheads Australian festival industry economic recovery – 19 March
• CX Network: Gold Coast spearheads Australian festival industry economic recovery – 19 March
• Australasian Leisure Management – Australian Festival Industry Conference returns as a live event – 8 March
• ArtsHub: Weekly Industry News Wrap Up – 5 March
• CX Magazine: Australian Festival Industry Conference announces first round of speakers and tickets – 5 March  
• Spice News: Australian Festival Industry Conference returns in 2021 – 4 March
• CIM Business Events: Australian Festival Industry Conference unveils ‘all-star’ line-up for 2021 – 4 March
• The Industry Observer: Australian Festival Industry Conference set to return in 2021 for Covid-safety probe – 4 March
• The Music Network: Expanded Festival Industry Conference moves to Gold Coast – 4 March

2020 Media Coverage

• The Music Network: Australian Event Awards Winners – 23 October
• CIM Business Events – 5 minutes with Carlina Ericson the future of the festival industry – 8 September
• ASE – 26 August
• The Music Network – 26 August
• CX Magazine – 26 August
• The Music Network – 12 June
• CIM Business Events – 4 June
• ArtsHub – 28 February
• Spice News – 20 February
• ASE – 20 February
• CIM Business Events – 19 February
• ASE – 16 January
• Spice News – 13 January
• The Music Network – 13 January
• Australasian Leisure Management – 13 January
• CIM Business Events – 13 January

2019 Media Coverage (May-Dec)

• TheMusic.com.au – 1 May
• The Music Network – 3 May
• Pollstar – 9 May
• The Music Network – 10 May
• Australasian Leisure Management – 13 May
• CIM Business Events – 13 May
• ArtsHub – 16 May
• Spice News – 16 May
• Spice News – 5 June
• Pollstar – 10 June
• The Industry Observer – 11 July
• Julius Media / CX Magazine – 13 August
• CX News – 14 August
• ArtsHub – Four key planning tips to make your festival a success in 2020 – 23 August
• CX Mag – Feature Article – September issue
• The Music Network – 5 September
• CIM Business Events – 6 September
• The Music Network – Interview with Jon Corbishley – 16 September
• The Music Network – Interview with Phil Tripp – 17 September
• Spice News – 5 Marketing Trends for 2020 – w. Alana Hay – 17 September
• ArtsHub – Interview with Heather Croall – 23 September
• The Music Network – Interview with Founder & Event Director, Carlina Ericson – 23 September
• Film Ink – SWIFF Co-Founder & Director to MC AFIC – 24 September
• The Music Network – Interview with Carol Hughes – 25 September
• The Music Network – Why the NSW Music Festival Round-table meeting should be held at AFIC – 30 September
• Australasian Special Events – Program grows for new festival industry conference – 4 October
• The Music Network – Interview with Heather Croall – 8 October
• Australasian Special Events – Eyes on 2020 Event – 1 November
• The Music Network – 6 Key Takeaways from AFIC – 5 November
• Spice News – AFIC Hailed a Success – 5 November
• Australian Leisure Management – 6 November
• Australasian Special Events – 20 December