As Glastonbury Festival creeps ever closer, we’re being given more and more reasons to get excited about heading down to Worthy Farm at the end of June.
With the set times finally here and the full line-up dropped, Vodafone has also done us a solid: their Official Glastonbury Festival app is finally here as well. Let the festival planning commence in earnest!
Available to download on the app store, the app boasts plenty of new widgets and features – including live location sharing on the app’s Glastonbury map (always helpful for friends trying to locate each other in a jam-packed crowd, or on the 900-acre festival site).
There’s also the addition of step count tracking to the post-Festival My Highlights reel, which will let festival-goers compare who’s covered the most ground during their time at Worthy Farm. Or, indeed, who’s danced for the longest amount of time.
At the same time, old favourite features will be making a return. That includes Spotify integration – meaning festival-goers will receive personalised recommendations for who to see, based on their listening habits. There’s also a new feature that lets people shortlist acts via the ‘Add to Favourites’ section – putting everybody’s favourite artists in one easy-to-access place.
There’ll also be shareable line-ups, which will now update automatically, and help people spot who their friends are seeing – letting them plan which sets to catch in real time. Crucially, there’s still map pinning, which will let people ‘pin’ and share locations on the Festival map, such as the location of their tent, or their favourite food stall.
The app itself is free to download, and is popular: last year, the official app was downloaded 226,215 times (slightly more than the number of people who actually attended the festival) – 88.9 per cent of those were people who attended, while 11.1 per cent followed along from home.
Vodafone has pledged to donate the same amount of money as the daily average of everybody’s step count to different charities, via its everyone.connected programme. This will apply up to a maximum of 75,000 donations to local communities around the UK.
The Vodafone mobile network will also be in full swing during the festival season, as will the Vodafone Connect and Charge tent, where people can make use of free phone charging and WiFi.
