{"id":110636,"date":"2025-07-17T13:36:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/beach-please-2025-audience-and-economic-impact-figures-declared-by-the-organizers\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T10:36:51","slug":"beach-please-2025-audience-and-economic-impact-figures-declared-by-the-organizers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/beach-please-2025-audience-and-economic-impact-figures-declared-by-the-organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach, Please! 2025: Audience and economic impact figures declared by the organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the Beach, Please! festival in Costine\u0219ti have published the final figures for the 2025 edition. According to the press release, the event registered a total of 500,000 participants over the five days. <\/p>\n<p>The data provided indicates an average attendance of around 100,000 people per day, with a peak of 155,000 on Saturday. Based on these figures, the organizers position the event as &#8220;the biggest festival in Europe and the biggest hip-hop festival in the world&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p><b>Economic and operational indicators:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Total economic impact:<\/b> estimated at around \u20ac70 million generated in the local economy.<\/li>\n<li><b>Direct expenditure by participants:<\/b> estimated at \u20ac11 million over the duration of the event.<\/li>\n<li><b>Advance sales:<\/b> More than 50,000 tickets for the 2026 edition have already been sold in the pre-sale period, indicating high customer retention.<\/li>\n<li><b>Logistics:<\/b> A collaboration with the authorities to improve the transportation infrastructure was mentioned, which reduced travel time on the Constanta-Costine\u0219ti route.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The festival, co-founded by entrepreneur Andrei \u0218elaru (Selly), had a line-up consisting of international artists such as A$AP Rocky, Yeat, Lil Baby, 21 Savage, Ken Carson and Young Thug, alongside Romanian artists.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers&#8217; press release also addressed the controversy surrounding the musical content and some of the invited artists, saying that the event&#8217;s strategy is to provide a platform for free creative expression.<\/p>\n<p>Based on reported data and anticipated sales, the festival&#8217;s business model looks set for accelerated growth, with preparations for the 2026 edition already underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organizers of the Beach, Please! festival in Costine\u0219ti have published the final figures for the 2025 edition. According to the press release, the event registered a total of 500,000 participants over the five days. The data provided indicates an average attendance of around 100,000 people per day, with a peak of 155,000 on Saturday. Based&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":110634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2853],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-110636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment"],"article_style_override":"","post-style":"","post_via":"","post-top-image":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110636"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhn.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=110636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}