Parookaville
Crowd communication at Parookaville
For five days and nights, Parookaville turns Weeze airport into the city of Bill Parooka, with the world’s biggest DJs and more than 80,000 visitors a day. Guiding that many people safely and smoothly across the festival grounds and campsites calls for clear, real-time communication. That is why the organisation brought in crowd communication from CrowdCows.
With our Integrated Crowd Communication System we kept visitors continuously informed: programme overview, wayfinding, house rules and atmosphere clips. From the command vehicle, our operator drove the HIKER screens; in an emergency the messaging switches straight to safety announcements.
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Case details
- 10 HIKER screens on the festival grounds
- 13 HIKER screens on the campsites
- 1 command vehicle
- 5 days · operator 24/7
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