Daily Tips That May or May Not Help You
Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min · 4 segments
Press passes are a smart way to get into pricey conferences, festivals, and events without buying a full ticket. If a newsletter, podcast, or social platform can legitimately cover the event, ask if…
Arielle NissenblattHost
Ned DonovanHostThis is something that I learned in 2017 from a friend who had a website that was about music festivals.
He basically rounded up music festivals that were happening and would write about them or promote them or whatever the situation was.
And he had, I don't know how many... hundreds of thousands of hits per month, but significant enough that people would send events to him and he would say, yes, I can feature them.
And around this time I had started, uh, podcast recommendation newsletter that I still write and I realized that I had something similar to what he had and what he was doing was essentially if he wanted to go to a music festival he would say hey can I have a press pass so that I can write about this for my website and I started using my newsletter to do similar things and I still do it to this day I wanted to go to a conference last month called the newsletter conference.
This is something that I learned in 2017 from a friend who had a website that was about music festivals.
He basically rounded up music festivals that were happening and would write about them or promote them or whatever the situation was.
And he had, I don't know how many... hundreds of thousands of hits per month, but significant enough that people would send events to him and he would say, yes, I can feature them.
And around this time I had started, uh, podcast recommendation newsletter that I still write and I realized that I had something similar to what he had and what he was doing was essentially if he wanted to go to a music festival he would say hey can I have a press pass so that I can write about this for my website and I started using my newsletter to do similar things and I still do it to this day I wanted to go to a conference last month called the newsletter conference.
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