Branded photos to festival-goers, live.
Shoot the crowd and each person gets their photos on their phone in real time, with your brand on every one.
Little Asian Bites, Detroit. Shot by Mammoth, the agency that runs its events on BrandStudio.
One setup. Thousands of phones.
Gates to last set, without a queue for photos.
Set the whole site up remotely
Every activation, every stage, every brand partner configured from one screen. Crews arrive to devices that already know what they are.
Roam, or run self-service
Photographers shoot tethered across the site while unattended stations handle the rest. It all lands in one gallery.
Saved to photosThey find themselves by face
A selfie pulls their photos out of thousands of frames, branded. No wristband number to remember.
Real frames from Little Asian Bites Night Market
You know how a festival gallery usually ends up.
The crowd is already shooting on their phones all weekend — and none of it has your name on it.
Thousands of people walk through the gates and the line never thins. You can’t staff an operator on every booth.
Roaming teams cover every stage, then the photos scatter across cards and laptops for days — and the sponsor still wants proof their activation worked.
Thousands a day, each one finds its person.
We’ve worked festival-size crowds. You get a three-step plan and we stay off your brand.
Capture
Roaming teams cover the stages, the food court, sponsor row — and self-service kiosks handle the gate rush, with on-screen prompts and a countdown running them. Every shooter syncs to the same event in real time.
BrandStudio brands + delivers
Every photo lands branded with the festival’s logo. Face Match pulls every shot a guest is in into one personal gallery, delivered by text, with the festival overlay already on every photo.
You review and approve
You watch coverage land in every zone’s folder, photos hit the big screens between sets, and each sponsor station’s photo count is in the analytics.
BrandStudio never shows up in the link, the gallery, or the photo. Every reshare wears the festival’s brand — never ours.
Festival weekend, set by set.
Three days, one crowd, and your brand riding every share. Here’s how the weekend actually runs.
- Fri 12 PM
Gates open
The activation booth is live in minutes — the brand kit was set up ahead of time; the crew just turned the iPad on.
You see: Booth live before the first act. - Fri 3 PM
First wave
The booth runs self-serve while roaming shooters work the crowd. Every guest leaves the tent with a branded photo already on their phone.
Guest sees: Their festival look, branded, shareable, instant. - Fri 8 PM
Golden hour
The wall screen near the main stage cycles the day’s best — people pull friends over to find themselves on it.
- Sat all day
The share loop
Every posted photo carries the sponsor’s frame into feeds the footprint can’t reach. The activation travels farther than the festival does.
- Sat 11 PM
The nightly publish
The content team culls the day in Lightroom; the export folder publishes itself — branded, sorted, live before the team’s heads hit the pillow.
- Monday
The brand recap
Photos by capture source and by hour, deliveries, gallery views, shares — plus the CSV exports. The number that renews the budget.
You see: The whole weekend, by activation.
By Monday the whole feed wears your brand.
Every booth shot and stage candid is on a guest’s phone before they’re back in the crowd — and on the festival brand the moment they post it. The crowd was always going to shoot; now their posts carry your name, and the sponsor sees how many photos their activation produced.
- Every guest finds their own photos by face — no scrolling a folder of 5,000.
- The festival’s brand rides along in every reshare to Instagram and TikTok.
- Each sponsor station’s photo count, straight from the analytics.
How it actually works.
Self-service booths that handle the gate rush
Thousands of people walk through the gates and the line never thins. You can’t staff an operator on every booth. Kiosk mode runs them itself — on-screen instructions, a countdown, and delivery on the spot — so the queue keeps moving and nobody waits on you.
- On-screen prompts walk each guest through it
- Shoots on a countdown — no operator standing by
- QR delivery on screen keeps the line short
They find their own photo by face — no scrolling 5,000
Nobody combs a folder of five thousand festival shots to find themselves. A guest takes a selfie once and Face Match pulls every photo they’re in — the stage shot, the booth, the candid by the food trucks — into one personal gallery, delivered to their phone.
- One selfie, every photo of them matched automatically
- Personal gallery delivered by SMS — no app to download
- Works across every booth, stage, and roaming shooter
Photos arrive ready to post
The crowd is already shooting on their phones — and none of it has your name on it. Deliver the better shot first: each photo lands with the festival overlay already on it, in full resolution, so guests post yours to Instagram and TikTok before they’re back in the crowd. Your festival brand rides along in every repost.
- Put the festival hashtag on the overlay artwork
- Full-resolution download, straight from their gallery
- Branded overlay stays visible in every reshare
Many photographers, one festival, zero coordination
Roaming teams cover the main stage, the food court, the VIP tent, sponsor row. With everyone on their own gear, photos usually scatter across cards and laptops for days. Here every shooter syncs to the same event in real time, a folder per zone, with each folder’s count updating as photos land.
- A folder per zone or photographer
- Real-time sync across every capture device
- See each folder’s photo count as it grows
Photos on the big screens while the set is still going
Shots from the stage pit, the booths, and the crowd hit the screens between stages and around the grounds in real time. The energy goes up when people see themselves up there — and a sponsor slide can play every few photos.
- A separate slideshow per stage or zone
- A sponsor slide every few photos, if you want one
- Open the slideshow link in a browser on any screen
Sponsor-branded activations you can count
Sponsors don’t pay for foot traffic they can’t prove. Give each one a branded photo station that draws a crowd, then pull its numbers from the event analytics, which count photos by capture source, and export them to CSV for the sponsor recap.
- Custom overlays and branding per sponsor
- Photo counts per station, from the event analytics
- Gallery Gate captures leads from organic shares
Suggested tools for festivals
The tools that power self-service booths, roaming coverage, and social sharing.
Festival photography questions
How do booths keep up with festival-size crowds?
Kiosk mode runs the booths themselves — on-screen instructions, a countdown timer, and QR delivery. No operator needed, so the line keeps moving when thousands walk through the gates.
How do attendees get their photos at a festival?
Photos are delivered with a QR code, straight to a branded gallery. Attendees share from their phone to Instagram, TikTok, or anywhere else — and your festival branding rides along in every reshare.
Can I run multiple photographers across stages and zones?
Yes. Give each stage, zone, or activation its own folder and every photo syncs to the same event in real time. The portal shows each folder's count as photos land.
Can sponsors get their own branded photo activations?
Yes. Each sponsor area can run its own station with its own overlay artwork. The event analytics break photos down by capture source, so you can report how many photos each activation produced, and export it to CSV. There is no separate sponsor dashboard.
Does the festival brand show up when guests reshare?
Every photo carries a branded overlay that stays visible in every reshare. The crowd is already shooting — this is how their posts end up wearing the festival's name instead of nothing.
Set this up before your next gate opens.
Every booth shot, every stage candid, on each guest’s phone before they’re back in the crowd — and on the festival brand when they post it. The photos, the recap, the numbers for the sponsor. You just run the show.