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Win £2,000 worth of free marketing to promote your show at this years' Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Out of Hand working in partnership with the Fringe Society are proud to support up and coming and emerging performers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Marketing is vital to the success of a show at the Fringe, and with over 3,000 different shows taking place daily over the three weeks of the Fringe, it is hard to stand out from the crowd.

Out of Hand offer a range of Fringe specific marketing channels for participants to choose from to help promote their show - whatever their budget. Services offered range from design and print of flyers and posters, to distribution and street teams. Alongside this, Out of Hand offer outdoor posters which are an essential element of any Fringe performers marketing campaign to support their Edinburgh shows.

Working in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council, these outdoor poster advertising sites are highly visible, centrally located throughout Edinburgh city centre and available exclusively for Fringe promoters and venues to promote their shows. All sites are in prime central locations and ideally positioned for maximum visibility around the Fringe performance areas with sites outside the main venues, busy pedestrian walkways and main traffic routes and transport hubs.

We will be awarding five bursaries, each £2,000 marketing bursary includes:

  • Design support for your flyer / poster / outdoor advertising
  • Print of 5,000 A6 flyers / 100 A3 full colour posters
  • One full page advert in one edition of our weekly 247 Fringe publication
  • Button & mobile banner advertising on edfringe.com for one week
  • Outdoor advertising to include 1 x Widescreen on Princes St, 4 x railing board pairs and 2 x 4-sheets.

WINNERS FOR 2025:

Congratulations to this year Edinburgh Fringe Marketing Bursary winners!

Boyboss
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/daniel-mckeon-boyboss

Luke Wright
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/luke-wright-pub-grub

Ghosted! A New Musical
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/ghosted-a-new-musical

The Tale of the Loneliest Whale
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/the-tale-of-the-loneliest-whale

VanagwenyaMbira - Vibes of the DRUM!
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/vanagwenyambira-vibes-of-the-drum

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Winners for 2024:

We received hundreds of applications and we were delighted to be able to support the following five shows in 2024:

Bits'n'Pieces, David Eagle: The Eagle is Candid, Identities, Scaffolding, Trawled: When Adventure Becomes Survival.

Winners for 2023:

Following the launch in 2022, we repeated our successful Edinburgh Fringe Marketing Bursary, offering four shows a marketing support packages, each worth £1,500.

Due to the large volume and high standards of the applications we received, it was extremely hard to select just four shows to receive a marketing bursary. Whilst we'd love to support so many more, but are supporting these shows for 2023:

Molly

Mr & Mrs Love

Biscuit Barrel: The 69-Sketch Show

Joe White: Ethiopian and Still Not Hungry

Winners for 2022:

We received hundreds of applications from a wide range of performers and it's very clear that the past two years have been especially hard for Fringe participants and everyone is looking forward to returning to Edinburgh next month.

Due to the large volume and high standards of the applications we received, it was extremely hard to select just three shows to receive a marketing bursary. Whilst we'd love to support so many more, but are supporting these shows for 2022:

Deaf Ears - How I Learned to Hear
https://deaf-ears.com/

The Magic Show Starring Liam A Black as The Glittering Prince of Magic
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/magic-show-starring-liam-a-black-as-the-glittering-prince-of-magic

Mythos: Ragnarok
https://thustheguild.co.uk/