How is the market in your area.

[stevefromNewcastle]

I am righting a business plan at the moment, as work gets more and more full on (which is good news), and I am trying to some up the market at the moment, so was just really looking at how people are finding there bookings. Whether people are being paid more, and whether there are more bookings that last year.
When I get organised I will set up a questionnaire so if any one else has to do this we can actually have figures on the market over the last 12 months.


well I will start this only just my first full year but bookings are up 50% and pay is proably up 30%.
I hae also acquired 5 new clients this year.
So I am quite happy with things

Cheers for your help
Steve

[murph]

blows.

The raves have died and the clubs are too small or have too small of profit margins to pay us much. It's more consistent, but not particularly exciting, and doesn't pay well. The few raves that do happen are either shady as hell, run by drug dealers, or are the most heavily sought out gigs in the area. Meanwhile our main club night wants to bring in more visuals for the 2nd room, but of course doesn't want to pay even the painfull amount we're getting for the main room, with only 4 VJs in the city. hahhahahaha

gigs up 50%, pay down 50%.

[Primebase3]

after (free)promospinning 2 years ago had a boom last year. this year a little less but because of the residency the same profit. finally bought a sony dsp 150 camera (wow but expensive 5000 3#@!!! euro) next year looking good with the same residency and hopefully one more. bizz down 25% profit up 40%

[scarab]

here in austria market is very good and booming.
i started out cutting only videotapes, which gave me gigs about 2 times a month (most of the time for very less money and free drinks) but one year ago (when i started doing it live) visualsing events became very famous, and right now it's not stoping. we have to cancel on of 3 gigs because of time factor. payment is always diffrent, but for my purse salary grew by 200% :-)

so compared to all other posts Austria looks quite good in VJ-Scene. (eventhough our government is still the same old right-party idiots, who are slowing down this process a lot)

regards
Dirk

[komart663]

here in France,i think ( for my opinion ) that vjing is growing up in new directions : raves are dead ( as murph said it ),but i get contacted for collaborations with machines/musicians bands,exhibition for clubs, ther's not only the techno movement that is interested by vjing,for the biznes side ,mmh,still quite hard to get well paied,but things are going better.
so gigs +50% ,pay+ ?

[fluchtpunkt]

we (tiefglanz.tv) have had a good last year here in zurich. bookings & pay went up ~50%, & we found 4 new clients. 90% of our vj'ing we do in clubs, so if raves were dissapearing here in switzerland too, we wouldn't notice.
demand for visuals is growing - though i wouldn't speak of a boom yet.

[bigloose]

Here in Lausanne (Switzerland) it look like it's about the same as in Zurich with fluchtpunkt. = good, but need much more.....

[PilotX]

From our point of view, the market has been good over the last 6 months. Two new nights, and I think increasing interest. Pay is about the same still gig to gig, although more nights = more money.

Hope this helps you Steve, Business plans are a troublesome irk, and this market is probably near impenitrable for real figures. You might have to use figures for the nightclub market, if they are growing/available, and project from that.

Tom
Syzygy Visuals

[wellREDman]

the industry today is very different to the industry we drew our business plan up with a year ago.. competition has meant that the amount promoters are willing to pay has halved, but the amount of work available has doubled

unfortunately that equates to twice the work for the same dosh :)