PEAKTIME exists to be a neutral, citeable read on booking demand. These are the rules that keep it that way.
Maintained by Ben Faricy, Founder & Editor · last reviewed 19 June 2026
PEAKTIME is not a booking agency and does not represent, manage or sell any artist, venue or festival. We take no payment to add, rank, raise or remove an act. Rankings are produced from data on a published method, they cannot be bought.
Each act is scored on the same blend of independent demand signals, refreshed daily, and normalised across the whole field. The weights and rubric are public and dated. We change the model when the data or our review of it justifies it, and we note material changes.
PEAKTIME holds no transacted fees. Fee figures are model-implied estimates, derived from demand signals or hand-tiered, and are labelled as estimated tiers, never as a quoted or contracted price. The "Value Gap" compares an act's demand against that estimate; it is a benchmark, not an offer. Where a real, sourced fee has been verified it is labelled as such. If you can confirm or correct a fee, tell us.
A fabricated or wiped statistic is the one thing that would break a "data, not hype" index, so the pipeline is built to never do it: a failed or empty data fetch keeps the last known good value rather than overwriting it, and obviously broken figures are suppressed rather than shown. We would rather show nothing than show a number we do not trust.
The index is a point-in-time reading, refreshed daily, with the last-updated date shown on every page. Booking demand is seasonal, so readings months apart are not directly comparable. Any conflict of interest that could affect coverage will be disclosed on the relevant page.
We fix errors promptly and openly. See the corrections policy, or email benfaricy@gmail.com.