The Bloom Split.
Most festivals pay a fee and keep the rest, and nobody outside the office ever sees the numbers. Blossom pays a fee and a share of the profit, decides the shares by the votes that booked each act, and publishes the whole thing here, live.
Where a ticket goes
Projected from tickets sold so far and the costs entered by the organiser. It moves as tickets sell and rounds are decided; the final numbers are settled after the festival and written to the ledger.
How it works
Ticket money pays for the site, production, the fees the artists set, the crew and the rest of putting on the weekend. Five percent of every ticket goes to the green fund before anything else. What is left is profit.
A main-stage act is paid the fee it set when it signed up, win or lose the negotiation it never has to have. On top of that, the artist pool is split by vote shares: every vote an act won in its final count is one share. The acts the crowd wanted most earn the most, and the crowd can see exactly why.
Acts booked directly for the two side stages split a fixed slice of the artist pool equally. They were not voted in, so votes cannot rank them; they share alike.
The people who build it share a pool of their own, in shares set by role. Published, like everything else.
If every Sprout ticket sells, an extra slice of profit opens and is split between the artist pool and the crew pool. Selling out is everybody's job, so everybody gets paid for it.
Ticket holders are not investors and never share profit. What they get is the price that only moves up and the right to sell for what the show has become worth.
The acts' shares
Shares appear here as rounds are decided and side-stage acts are confirmed.
Why we built it this way
The industry runs on three deals: a flat guarantee, a "versus" deal (the guarantee or a percentage of the door, whichever is higher), and a guarantee plus a backend above a threshold. All three are private, and in all three the backend is negotiated by whoever has the better agent. Co-operative stages go the other way and split evenly, which is fair but blind to what the audience actually wanted. The Bloom Split keeps the guarantee, keeps a real backend, and replaces the negotiation with the vote: the crowd already told us who they came for, so that is who the backend follows. And because every vote is on a public ledger, the split can be checked by anyone, including the act that lost.