How to Use the Eventbrite Events App – OptiSigns

In this article, we'll show how to display your upcoming Eventbrite events on your digital signs with OptiSigns.

What You'll Need
Creating an Eventbrite Events App
- Continue with Eventbrite
- Use Public Events
Display
Deploying an Eventbrite Events App

With the Eventbrite Events app, it's possible to display upcoming events from Eventbrite on your digital signs. Promote your own events, or those of a venue or organizer you love, complete with dates, venues, ticket prices and a QR code viewers can scan to get tickets.

Eventbrite Events app showing an event poster with its date, venue, ticket price and a QR code to register

Let's get started.

What You'll Need

An OptiSigns account - Standard Plan or higher
Either an Eventbrite account with an organizer profile, or the public Eventbrite link of the event, organizer or venue you want to show
An OptiSigns-enabled device
A screen, set up and paired with OptiSigns (see our Getting Started guide)

Creating an Eventbrite Events App

From the OptiSigns portal, go to Files/Assets and select Apps.

OptiSigns Files/Assets page with the Apps button highlighted

Search for Eventbrite and select the Eventbrite Events app.

Add App dialog searched for Eventbrite, with the Eventbrite Events app card highlighted

You'll be asked how to load your events. Choose one:

Continue with Eventbrite - Sign in to your Eventbrite organizer account and show your own events.
Use public events - Show any organizer's, venue's or event's events using their public Eventbrite link. No Eventbrite account is needed.

Eventbrite Events dialog with the Continue with Eventbrite and Use public events options, Use public events highlighted

Continue with Eventbrite

Click Continue with Eventbrite and sign in to Eventbrite in the window that opens, then approve access. The app settings will open with your Eventbrite connection shown at the top. Fill in the following:

Name - The name of your Eventbrite Events asset. This is for organizational purposes within OptiSigns only and will not display on your screens.
Organization - The Eventbrite organization whose events are shown, if your account has more than one.
Venue - Show events at all of your venues, or pick one venue.

An Advanced section is also available with this option:

Include unlisted (private link) events - Check this box to also show events you've set as unlisted on Eventbrite.

NOTE

The Eventbrite account you sign in with needs an organizer profile. If it doesn't have one, you'll see Couldn't connect Eventbrite. Set up an organizer profile on eventbrite.com, then try again.

Use Public Events

Click Use public events. Fill in the following:

Name - The name of your Eventbrite Events asset. This is for organizational purposes within OptiSigns only and will not display on your screens.
Eventbrite link - The public Eventbrite link to show. Paste an event link to show that one event, or an organizer or venue link to show everything they have coming up, such as https://www.eventbrite.com/o/your-venue-12345.

Eventbrite Events form with the Name and Eventbrite link fields filled in, and the Display section below

NOTE

Eventbrite has no "events near me" search, so the app shows whatever the link you paste points to.

Display

The Display section controls which events are shown and how they look.

Layout - How your events are presented. See below.
Show events in the next - How far ahead to look for events: 7 days, 14 days, 30 days (the default) or 90 days.
Seconds per slide - How long each event is shown, from 5 to 20 seconds. Only available with the Event Marquee layout.
Number of events - How many events rotate through the screen, from 3 to 8. Each layout shows as many as fit at once and pages through the rest. Available with every layout except Event Marquee.
Theme - Dark (the default), Light, or Custom.
Show ticket price - Shows each event's ticket price, or Free. On by default.
Show QR code to buy tickets - Shows a QR code that opens the event's Eventbrite page. On by default.

Layout dropdown open, listing Event Marquee, Neighborhood Board, Right Now and Going Fast

There are four layouts:

Event Marquee - One event at a time, with its poster, date, time, venue, price and QR code, plus a preview of the next event. This is the default.
Neighborhood Board - A board of upcoming event cards, each with its own price and QR code.
Right Now - The current time, the next event up with its QR code, and a list of the events coming up after it.
Going Fast - Spotlights one event at a time under a Going Fast banner.

Event Marquee

Eventbrite Events Event Marquee layout showing one event poster with its date, venue, price and QR code

Neighborhood Board

Eventbrite Events Neighborhood Board layout with three upcoming event cards, each with a QR code

Right Now

Eventbrite Events Right Now layout with the current time, the next event and a Coming Up list

Going Fast

Eventbrite Events Going Fast layout spotlighting one event with its date, venue and QR code

Set Theme to Custom to choose your own Background color, Text color and Accent color. Enter a hex code or click the swatch to use the color picker.

Theme set to Custom, showing the Background color, Text color and Accent color fields

Here's the Event Marquee layout with Theme set to Light:

Eventbrite Events Event Marquee layout in the Light theme

Now hit Save. You'll have created an Eventbrite Events app, and it will appear in your Files/Assets.

New Eventbrite Events asset shown in Files/Assets

TIP

The Preview appears once the app is saved. Double-click your Eventbrite Events app in Files/Assets to reopen it. Any changes you make there show up right away in the preview.

Deploying an Eventbrite Events App

To push your Eventbrite Events app to a screen, go to the Screens tab, then click Edit next to the screen you want to display it on.

Screens list with the Edit button highlighted on a screen row

The Edit Screen pop-up will appear. Select Asset under Content Type, then hit Change next to Selected Asset.

Edit Screen dialog with Content Type set to Asset and the Change button highlighted

The Select Asset window will open. Search for your Eventbrite Events app, click it, then hit Select.

Select Asset dialog with the Eventbrite Events asset selected

Back in Edit Screen, hit Save. Your events will now display on your screen.

Your Eventbrite Events app can also be displayed in a Playlist or Schedule, or as one zone of a Split Screen.

That’s all!

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