LAS VEGAS — The Event Production Directory (EPD), long the Bible of working event planners and production professionals, is now a downloadable free app for iPhones currently available at the iPhone App Store online or on your iPhone.
“This is something event producers and production professionals have been asking for and we’ve listened,” says Timeless Communications, Corp. president and PLSN/FRONT of HOUSE publisher Terry Lowe. “Now the event production world is literally in the palm of your hand.”
For the past 13 years, the Event Production Directory has been an online searchable database at epdweb.com along with its companion print version published and updated every year. There are currently 4,252 companies listed in the database.
Now available for all iPhone users, this convenient, easy-to-use intuitive app allows for easy searches from any radius of your current location and by the radius of any city. There are 19 different selections by type of company (Lighting, Pyro, Sound, Video, Freight Forwarders, Generators, etc.). You can search by brand name of gear each company owns or search for that specific company. Once you find what you’re looking for, another touch makes the call or emails your look-up. And the company’s websites are all there, as are their exact street location.
The EPD App is perfect for sourcing vendors in the city where your event is taking place or when you’re on a show site and the sound companies console blows up. You can quickly search for a replacement (even by brand) and find the nearest place you can get another one. Or maybe you’re working that big festival and your follow spotguy doesn’t show up. Select “Labor Companies” and get a qualified replacement.
“This will be a life-saver,” Lowe continues. “Any supplier will want to make sure their information is up-to-date and current on the EPD website (epdweb.com), because this will be the number one tool professionals of all levels use, from the event planner needing additional pipe and drape for a meeting to the production manager of the biggest touring acts.” Plans for an android version is in the works.
The EPD App can be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/mnpjnxq
