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WiFi for theaters and theater groups

Know everyone in the house, not just the person who booked

Your box office knows the lead booker. Purple's audience WiFi introduces you to everyone else in the row, then puts interval drinks, merchandise and next season on the screen already in their hand. Front of house, backstage and box office devices stay on their own secure networks, on the access points you already own.

  • Consented audience data for your CRM
  • Interval and merchandise offers at sign-in
  • xPSK for tills, scanners and box office
  • ISO 27001 certified
Audience members chatting in a busy theater foyer before a performance, some holding phones
Welcome back, PriyaSecond show this season, opted in to offers
Interval drinks offer openedFrom the WiFi welcome page, in the stalls bar
Trusted by theaters, concert halls and live venues includingLW TheatresGlasgow LifeEctor County ColiseumBattersea Power StationNEC Group
The gap

A full house every night. Your CRM knows one name per booking.

Tickets are bought by one person and used by two, four or a coach party. Gifts, group bookings and agent sales mean many people in your seats never reach your database at all. Your marketing, membership and bar teams all want to reach the same audience, and a WiFi password on the foyer wall tells them nothing. That gap shows up in four places.

A typical theater today

  • The lead booker is in your CRM. The people sitting beside them are not.
  • Bar queues at the interval, with the shop and pre-order offers unseen
  • Members and friends who look like any other audience member on the night
  • Box office PCs, bar tills and ticket scanners sharing one password with visiting companies

With Purple

  • Everyone who connects can opt in, so the whole party reaches your CRM with CCPA/CPRA consent
  • Merchandise, interval drinks and dining offers on the first screen they see, as LW Theaters runs
  • Returning audience members recognized at sign-in and invited back to the next season
  • Every till, scanner and box office PC on its own key, and visiting crews on keys that expire
One platform, four plays

Every seat, every interval, every member and every device

Four jobs that normally sit with four different teams, run from one dashboard on the network you already have.

Audience

Meet the people your box office never sees

Gifted tickets, group bookings and agent sales mean most of your audience arrives as a stranger. The WiFi sign-in is often the only moment they tell you who they are. Purple turns it into consented first-party data: who came, who came back and what they want to see next, in your venue's look and in the language set on each person's phone.

  • A branded sign-in with social, email or one-click login, and CCPA/CPRA consent recorded with a full audit trail
  • Sign-in shown in the language set on each phone, for tourists and touring audiences
  • Records sent to Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze and your email platform through 400+ data connectors
  • Audience numbers, dwell time and repeat visits for every venue in one dashboard

Add one question to the sign-in and learn what your ticketing data cannot tell you. Ector County Coliseum asked its audiences, and 43% of those who answered had traveled to attend a show.

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A theater-goer signing in to venue WiFi on a phone in a softly lit foyerAudience data
Interval and merchandise

Put the bar, the shop and afternoon tea in their hand

LW Theaters gives each venue its own branded pages: one before audiences connect and one after. The second carries a carousel of three offers, show merchandise, afternoon tea and food and drink, so the next thing someone sees after connecting is something they can buy tonight. In one opening week, 518 people followed those offers.

  • A branded page before connection and an offers page after, each in your venue's look
  • Change offers by show, by venue or by date, and schedule them to start and end on their own
  • Add Google Analytics campaign links to each offer to see what it earned
  • Roll the same pages out across a whole group from one dashboard, as LW Theaters plans for its other six theaters
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Audience members at a theater bar during the interval, one holding a phone with an offer on screenInterval offers
Members and friends

Sell next season to the people already in the room

Everyone in the house tonight has already shown they will buy a ticket. Glasgow Life sent its Christmas show brochure for Glasgow Royal Concert Hall to 690 audience members who had opted in over the WiFi. Battersea Power Station promoted its summer outdoor cinema and theater events on its sign-in pages, and 1% of the people who connected went on to book.

  • Consented records sync to your CRM and email platform, ready for the next season brochure
  • Promote your membership, friends scheme or next production on the sign-in page itself
  • Returning audience members recognized at sign-in, with each visit added to their record
  • Members can reconnect automatically at every venue with a Passpoint profile, with no sign-in page
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Two friends looking at a phone together in a theater foyer, one smiling at an offer for an upcoming seasonMembers
Front of house and backstage

Box office, bar and backstage, each on its own network

Box office PCs, ticket scanners, bar tills, card readers and AV kit cannot sign in with a username and password. xPSK gives each one its own key and its own VLAN, so a leaked password affects one device, not the venue. Staff sign in with the work account they already use, and visiting companies get keys that expire when the run ends.

  • Every device on its own key and VLAN, revocable one at a time
  • Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
  • Time-limited keys for touring companies and freelance crew, with no MDM
  • Front-of-house and backstage staff sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace, and leavers lose access when their account is disabled
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A box office assistant at a counter with a ticket scanner and card reader before doors openOperations
Audience WiFi, run as a marketing channel

A password on the foyer wall, or a channel your marketing team owns

The access points are already in your building. What changes is what happens when someone connects.

What you need
Free WiFi today
With Purple
Audience data
Only the lead booker, from the ticketing system
Everyone who opts in, as consented first-party records
Consent
None recorded, or a tick box with no audit trail
CCPA/CPRA consent with a full audit trail
Interval and merchandise
Posters in the foyer and a queue at the bar
Offers on the first screen people see, by show and by venue
Next season
Brochures left on seats
Opted-in audiences in your CRM and email platform through 400+ connectors
Tills, scanners and box office
One shared key, changed every time it leaks
A private key and VLAN for each device
Hardware
Often tied to one vendor's portal and license
Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi and more
A theater marketing team reviewing a calm audience dashboard in an office above the foyer
Built for a theater marketing team

Audience data that earns its keep from opening night

Theaters, concert halls and live venues use Purple to grow their audience lists, sell more on the night and fill the next season. These are results from venues already live.

690
opted-in audience members received Glasgow Royal Concert Hall's Christmas show brochure
518
people followed LW Theaters' merchandise, afternoon tea and bar offers in one opening week
43%
of Ector County Coliseum survey respondents had traveled to attend a show
1%
of WiFi visitors booked Battersea Power Station's summer outdoor cinema and theater events

Figures from Purple customer results: Glasgow Life (Glasgow Royal Concert Hall), LW Theaters, Ector County Coliseum and Battersea Power Station.

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How it works

Live before your next opening night

  1. 1

    Brand your sign-in

    We build your welcome and offers pages in your venue's look, with consent and the questions you want answered.

  2. 2

    Point your access points at Purple

    We configure the audience, staff and device networks on the access points you already own.

  3. 3

    Go live venue by venue

    Start with one theater, connect your CRM, then roll the same pages out across the group.

Talk to our venues team

See your theater on one audience platform

Tell us about your venues and we will show you how audience data, interval offers, members and secure box office networks would work on your hardware.

  • Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
  • Consented records into Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze and 400+ more through data connectors
  • ISO 27001 certified, CCPA/CPRA compliant, zero data breaches since 2012

Book a theater demo

A 30-minute call with someone who knows venue marketing.

Theater WiFi questions, answered

What marketing, front-of-house and IT teams ask us most

Do we need to replace our access points?

No. Purple runs on the access points you already own, including Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet. There is no on-premise server to install.

Who owns the audience data?

You do. Every record is consented, first-party data captured on your own sign-in page with a full CCPA/CPRA audit trail, and it flows into your own CRM and email platform through 400+ data connectors.

Can it cope when the whole house connects at the interval?

Capacity comes from your access points and internet connection, which stay yours. Purple runs sign-in, consent and authentication in the cloud, with cloud RADIUS on a 99.9% uptime SLA and nothing on site to maintain.

Do members have to sign in every time they visit?

No. Members and regulars can install a Passpoint profile once and then connect automatically and securely at every venue in your group, with no sign-in page.

How do we keep tills, scanners and the box office off the audience network?

With xPSK. Each device gets its own key and VLAN, bound to the first device that uses it, so audience traffic never shares a network with your tills or box office. You can revoke one key without touching any other device.

Can we run it across a group of theaters?

Yes. Every venue runs from one dashboard, with its own branded pages and offers. LW Theaters started with one venue and is rolling the same pages out across its other six theaters.

Where is our data held?

Purple has RADIUS regions in the UK, EU and US, is ISO 27001 certified and CCPA/CPRA compliant, and has had zero data breaches since 2012.

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