Since 1976

• 36 festivals
• 2,586 artists
• 3,246 shows
• 5,080,154 spectators

In 2011, Paléo Festival Nyon involved

• 230,000 spectators
• 1,682 musicians and technicians
• 211 shows on 6 stages and dozens of animations
• 4,405 volunteers
• 1 area of 84 hectares (including the camping and the parking)
• 55 salaried staff (43 FTE full time employees)
• 8000 campers
• 207 stall-holders and 48 bars
• 609 journalists, photographers and media representatives
  
  • 222 newspapers, websites, magazines, record companies, TV and radio channels
    
    • 24 Swiss and international Television
    • 20 Record companies
• A budget of 23 million Swiss Francs

Internet

• 2,928,557 visitors between August 2010 and August 2011 (source: Google Analytics)
• 129,758 regular subscribers to the Festival’s newsletter at 1st August 2011

Ticketing

• 67% of tickets sold via www.paleo.ch (print-at-home system).

Paléo respects the environment

• 985,000 washable cups produced by Paléo since 2009
• Over 50% of those present at the Festival use public transport to get here in 2011.
• 43% of the waste was sorted in 2010 (15% in 2000).
• Paléo uses 100% green energy.

Spectator profile

Figures presented below are taken from a survey conducted by the Haute Ecole de Gestion de Genève (face to face interviews) from a representative sample of spectators during the Paléo Festival Nyon 2010.

Origin

• Nyon district 30%
  which Nyon and surroundings* 16%
• State of Vaud (without Nyon district) 20%
• State of Geneva 29%
• Other French speaking States 8%
• German speaking part of CH and Ticino 2%
• France 10%
• Other countries 1%

* Duillier, Eysins, Grens, Prangins, Signy-Avenex, Trélex

Age

• Under 20 years: 17%
• Between 20 and 29 years: 43%
• Between 30 and 39 years: 15%
• Between 40 and 49 years: 10%
• Over 50 years: 15%

Average age of the spectators is 32 years.
Half the spectators are younger than 28 years of age.

Loyalty

• 10% discovers Paléo for the first time.
• 79% of the public had already taken part in more than 3 editions of the Festival.
• 98% of the public is considering as a certainty (85%) or a possibility (13%) of coming back the following year.

Satisfaction

• 97% of the public present said they were satisfied or very satisfied with the way they were received on site.
• 88% of the public present thought the offer of food and drinks was either good or excellent
• 91% of the public present had a good or excellent opinion of the Festival's environmental policy.