Do summer destination towns like Atlantic City, Ventnor and Wildwood need to bankroll a majority of their local events? No. Not with the growth of independent promoters like Boardwalk Entertainment who will debut their services in Ventnor this summer.
Ventnor & Atlantic City benefit from new event promoters & professional marketing companies like Boardwalk Entertainment, DownbeachBUZZ.com and ACprimetime.com.
Amanda Thomas of Boardwalk Entertainment is one such promoter that’s been happily embraced by the commissioners of Ventnor. You see, Thomas doesn’t put a price tag on her events. That’s not the way this 24 yr old from Ocean City rolls. Ventnor likes that…alot.
Boardwalk Entertainment will bring at least two, much-needed events to Ventnor this summer. The company plans to host the Ventnor Food Truck Festival on June 10th at Ski Beach in Ventnor Heights, and weekly Movies on the Beach, Mondays through July and August on Suffolk Ave.
These fresh, new events are free to the public. There’s plenty of fun for the kids with a bounce house, face painting, balloon artists and more.
‘Movies on the Beach’ every Monday at the Suffolk Ave Beach in Ventnor. This is where the volleyball courts & playground are located. An inflatable movie screen will be brought in, along with a food and snack vendor for the evening. Popular, family-friendly movies will be shown each week through July and August.
Ventnor Commissioner Tim Kriebel reports, “Amanda Thomas from Boardwalk Entertainment worked with all our departments to create fun and family-friendly events”.
In 2016, Amanda Thomas & Boardwalk Entertainment created the Celebrate America Weekend in Wildwood which included a July 4th concert with Tim McGraw.
Amanda smartly gets investors, sponsors, vendors and consumers to pony up for everything….bands, advertising, clean-up, insurance, security, everything. The city just kicks back and gets a check, a free show, and tons of marketing for their seashore destination. Sweet.
On the other hand….there are some haters that don’t like this new marketing, concert & event competition. It’s not just old-school promoters feeling the heat from these new operators. Even local radio and newspaper media are committing competitive sabotage in order to protect against losing sponsorship clients.
On April 24, Press of Atlantic City writer & WOND Radio host, Scott Cronick, taunted and trashed a group of newcomers (The Jersey Boys) who will produce the upcoming ‘Garden State Country Music & Food Truck Festival’ at Bader Field in Atlantic City.
These self-funded entrepreneurs were viciously attacked on-air by the newspaper writer & radio host. On-air, Cronick accused the Jersey Boys of not following his recommendations. LISTEN BELOW.
Was Cronick angry that his AC Weekly publication was snubbed for an advertising partnership? Cronick is a sales manager for the once dominant, AC Weekly.
LISTEN to on-air harassment of company producing Country Music & Food Truck Festival in Atlantic City. (Jersey Boyz) >
Scott Cronick on WOND Trashes Promoter of Country Fest 4.24.17
Nannette Lobiondo Galloway, writer for the Downbeach Current is an employee of the Press of Atlantic City group of publications. Galloway recently posted a… what we consider… a smear piece on the up-n-comer, Amanda Thomas. Some call it fake news from a once proud publication. We call it just one more example of why most people no longer trust the mainstream media.
Note: Atlantic City area newspaper circulation has dramatically declined over the past decade. Radio reach has also seen a precipitous drop of listeners.
Atlantic City area newspaper & radio companies have been severely disrupted by the rise of Internet platforms like:
- DownbeachBUZZ.com
- ACprimetime.com
- BrigantineNOW.com
- DownbeachHomes.com