Systems and methods for estimating demand for attractions
Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide devices, systems, and methods of using location-based virtual audience feedback to estimate interest in an attraction at one or more venues. Certain embodiments provide devices, systems, and methods of using location-based virtual audience feedback and/or other audience data to estimate interest in a plurality of attractions or other items of interest at a particular venue.
1. A system for matching a venue with one or more performers, the system
comprising:
a database that stores information about venues for holding performances, performers that perform acts of entertainment, and fans of the performers;
a computer that has access to the database and that is configured to:
receive indications of interest from fans, wherein each indication of interest is an action taken by a fan that shows that the fan has interest in a specific performer;
determine, based upon the indications of interest, interest metrics representing individual fans' degree of interest in specific performers;
determine distances between geographic locations of fans and venues;
determine participation metrics representing each fan's rate of participation in past performances;
determine social influence metrics representing likelihoods that fans will be influenced by actions of others;
weight the interest metrics, distances, participation metrics, and social influence metrics according to their relative importance in calculating the likelihoods of attendance;
calculate likelihoods that specific fans would attend a performance by a specific performer at a specific venue, wherein the calculation takes into account the interest metrics, distances, participation metrics, and social influence metrics;
calculate an estimate of attendance at a performance by a specific performer at a specific venue by summing the likelihoods that specific fans would attend the performance; and
use the calculated estimate of attendance to match a venue with a performer.
2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a fan feedback subsystem configured to record the fan actions that constitute indications of interest.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the fan feedback subsystem comprises a user interface element operable by the fans to indicate interest in a particular performer.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the user interface element is configured to be operated repeatedly, and wherein a value of an interest metric may be based on a number of times that the user interface element is operated.
5. The system of claim 4 , wherein the number of times in an interval that a fan can operate the user interface element is limited.
6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interest metrics are based in part on indications of how recently the indication of interests occurred.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the interest metrics are used to calculate estimated attendance for performances by performers that are similar to specific performers for whom fans have made indications of interest.