How Ticketopolis helped verify Monterrey's Guinness World Record for largest folk dance

Today, 1095 dancers filled Plaza Zaragoza in Monterrey, Nuevo León, and set a new Guinness World Record for the largest Mexican folk dance ever performed. Ticketopolis was there too, not on stage, but behind the scenes, providing the registration and headcount system that helped support the official Guinness verification.

A record built by the whole city

The event was organized by the Monterrey city government in collaboration with Conarte, with choreography led by maestro Jaime Guerrero and more than 40 different dance groups performing together. The routine ran for roughly 30 minutes and wrapped up around 7:00 p.m., with Guinness World Records officials completing their verification by 8:00 p.m. Carlos Tapia of Guinness World Records confirmed the result on-site, alongside official witnesses Alejandro González and Francisco Torres: an official count of 1095 participants: a new world record.

Why a record like this needs more than one count

A Guinness World Records attempt of this size doesn't rest on a single headcount taken by a judge glancing across a plaza. Official witnesses validate the attempt against Guinness's guidelines, but an event with over a thousand simultaneous participants also benefits from an independent, documented registration trail: proof of exactly who showed up, when they checked in, and how the final number was reached.

Where Ticketopolis came in

For this event, Ticketopolis provided the registration and check-in system used to track participating dancers as they arrived, generating a real-time, timestamped count that stood alongside the official witnesses' tally. It's the same underlying capability Ticketopolis provides for any large event: QR-based check-in and real-time analytics, applied here to a use case a little different from a typical ticketed show: supporting documentation for a Guinness World Record attempt, rather than admission to a concert or conference.

What this shows about handling scale

Most events Ticketopolis supports involve getting a crowd through a door efficiently. This one required something slightly different: an accurate, defensible count of participants gathered in an open plaza, produced fast enough to hand off to Guinness officials the same evening. The same real-time check-in infrastructure that tells a festival organizer how many people are inside their venue right now was put to work here to help document a genuine world record.

A record worth being part of

Monterrey's folk dance record is a point of civic pride, built by dozens of dance groups and a choreographer who spent months preparing a routine meant to be performed by over a thousand people at once. Being the platform trusted to help document that moment, accurately, and on a tight timeline, is exactly the kind of large-scale coordination Ticketopolis is built for.

Built for events of any size

Whether it's 200 people at a community fundraiser or over a thousand dancers attempting a world record, Ticketopolis's registration, check-in, and real-time analytics scale to match. Sign up free and see how the same tools that helped verify a Guinness World Record can support your next event.

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Ticketopolis now delivers tickets by WhatsApp, in addition to email

Starting today, every ticket sold through Ticketopolis can be delivered by WhatsApp, alongside the email delivery organizers already rely on. It's a small change on the surface,one extra delivery channel, but it solves one of the most common complaints event organizers hear from their attendees: "I never got my ticket."

The problem with email-only delivery

Email has been the default way to deliver tickets for years, and for a lot of buyers it still works fine. But it isn't the whole story. Confirmation emails land in spam folders, get buried under promotions, or simply go unread until the day of the event, if they're opened at all. For organizers, that means a share of attendees show up without their ticket in hand, creating avoidable friction at the door and putting extra pressure on check-in staff who have to look up orders manually.

Why WhatsApp

WhatsApp is where a large share of Ticketopolis's audience already spends their time: checking messages throughout the day, not just when they think to open their inbox. Delivering a ticket there means it arrives somewhere a buyer is actually likely to see it, with none of the extra steps of searching an inbox the night of an event.

How it works

There's nothing new for organizers to configure. When a buyer completes a purchase on Ticketopolis, their ticket is generated and delivered automatically by email as before, and now by WhatsApp as well, sent to the phone number provided at checkout. The ticket itself works exactly the same way whether it's opened from an email or a WhatsApp message: the same unique code, ready to be scanned at check-in.

For buyers, that means one less thing to worry about. For organizers, it means fewer "I can't find my ticket" messages in the days leading up to an event, and fewer holdups at the door from guests who genuinely never saw their confirmation.

Who benefits most

This matters for every kind of event Ticketopolis supports, but it's especially useful for community events, family-oriented gatherings, and any audience that leans on messaging apps more than email.

What's next

WhatsApp delivery is live now for every event created on Ticketopolis, at no extra cost and with no setup required: it's simply part of how tickets are delivered going forward. As always, the goal is the same one behind every feature we build: fewer obstacles between a ticket being bought and an attendee actually making it through the door.

Find it. Book it. Live it. And now, get it on WhatsApp too.

Ticketopolis now generates attendee badges with built-in networking QR codes

For congresses, conferences, and expos, a ticket isn't really the end goal: getting into the room is just step one. What happens once attendees are inside, and how easily they can connect with each other, matters just as much. Starting today, organizers running this kind of event can generate attendee badges instead of standard tickets directly on Ticketopolis, with a QR code built in specifically to make networking easier.

Badges instead of tickets, where it makes sense

Not every event needs a badge, a concert or a community fair still works best with a standard ticket. But for conferences, congresses, and expos, a badge is what attendees actually wear and reference all day: name, role, company, and event access all in one place. Organizers running these kinds of events can now switch a ticket type to generate a printable badge instead, without changing anything else about how registration or check-in works.

A QR code that does more than check someone in

Every badge includes a QR code, and instead of only encoding a check-in reference, it also carries the attendee's contact information as a standard vCard: name, title, company, email, and phone, exactly as they provided it at registration. That means any other attendee can scan someone's badge and instantly save their contact to their own phone, no app required, no manually typing an email into a new contact card between sessions.

Why this matters for conferences specifically

Networking is one of the main reasons people attend a conference in the first place, and it's usually the part that depends the most on chance: whoever happens to be next to you at lunch, or whoever you manage to catch before they rush to the next session. A scannable badge removes the friction of exchanging contact information in the moment: no business cards to keep track of, no "let's connect on LinkedIn later" that quietly never happens.

Set up alongside everything else

Badge generation isn't a separate system bolted onto Ticketopolis: it works through the same registration and ticketing flow organizers already use. Attendees register the same way they always have; the organizer simply selects badge-style tickets, and Ticketopolis handles generating each attendee's badge with their networking QR code included, ready to print or display digitally at check-in.

Works with check-in you already have

Badges are fully compatible with Ticketopolis's existing QR code check-in, so staff scanning attendees in at the door use the same process as always: the badge's QR code still confirms entry, in addition to carrying the attendee's contact card for use throughout the event.

Who this is for

This is built specifically for organizers running congresses, professional conferences, trade shows, and expos: any event where attendees are there to learn from and connect with each other, not just watch something happen. If your event has ever needed a "networking hour" to manually solve this problem, badges with built-in vCard QR codes solve it automatically for every attendee, all day.

Getting started

Badge-style tickets are available now for any event on Ticketopolis. Sign up free and switch your next conference or expo over to badges in just a few minutes.

Find it. Book it. Live it. And now, connect while you're there.

Ticketopolis launches live streaming and on-demand video, powered by dailymotion

Ticketopolis now supports live streaming and video on demand for virtual and hybrid events, through a new integration with Dailymotion, and it comes at no additional cost to organizers.

One platform, from ticket sale to the broadcast itself

Until now, organizers running a virtual or hybrid event often had to stitch together a ticketing platform and a separate streaming service, then figure out how to keep the two in sync. With this integration, that gap closes: an organizer sets up their event on Ticketopolis, sells tickets the same way they always have, and the same platform hosts the live broadcast, in Full HD, with the signal restricted to whoever actually purchased a ticket. Once an event ends, that same stream can remain available as video on demand, so attendees who couldn't make the live session (or who simply want to watch it again) still get access.

How organizers get set up

Setting up a stream works the same way it does with any standard live streaming service: Ticketopolis provides a dedicated streaming server and a unique stream key for the event, ready to plug into whatever broadcasting software or hardware the organizer already uses. There's no new workflow to learn: just a server and key, same as organizers running virtual events are already used to configuring elsewhere.

No additional cost, here's how that works

Adding streaming to an event doesn't come with an extra line-item cost. Instead, it's subsidized by a short advertisement that plays when an attendee joins the broadcast, similar to how ad-supported video works elsewhere, but scoped narrowly to the moment someone joins rather than interrupting the event itself. Organizers on the Premium plan have the option to remove that ad entirely, for events where an uninterrupted, fully branded experience matters more.

Built for events, not just video

Because the stream lives inside the same event page attendees already bought their ticket through, it's built around what an event actually needs rather than being a generic video player bolted on. Access stays tied to the purchase: a ticket unlocks the stream for the person who bought it, without the signal getting passed around or reused across multiple devices, so the same protections organizers rely on for in-person check-in carry over to a virtual audience.

Who this is for

This is aimed squarely at organizers running virtual and hybrid events: conferences with a remote track, festivals streaming a stage to people who can't attend in person, webinars, and any event where part of the audience is joining from somewhere other than the venue. For hybrid events specifically, it means one ticket type and one platform can serve both the in-person and the remote audience, rather than running two separate systems side by side.

Available now

Live streaming and on-demand video are available today for any event on Ticketopolis, at no additional cost beyond the short join-time ad or with that ad removed entirely on Premium. Sign up free and add a live stream to your next event alongside your regular ticket sales.

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Democratizing knowledge, making sports more accessible, and bringing the arts closer

We’re often asked why we decided to build a system like Ticketopolis. What many people don’t know is that we started in 2002 as an agency that developed technology-driven marketing strategies, or, depending on how you looked at it, a software development company built on marketing principles. Our mission was simple: “Help your business grow.” We wanted to have a positive impact on the growth and development of our society.

Our event registration system, as it was called back then, was probably the third or fourth system we ever developed. The first event we supported was a conference for Tecnológico de Monterrey called “Adictos a la Publicidad” (Advertising Addicts), held in August 2003.

From there, we went on to support many more events, including numerous events organized by students and nonprofit organizations. Often, they had to work with very limited time, budgets, or resources. And yet, we saw firsthand how their hard work and dedication allowed them to create meaningful events that made a difference in their communities.

Over time, we began to see a common thread among all these events: they contributed to the growth and development of society. We witnessed how attending these kinds of events could change people’s lives. That’s when we realized that the work we were doing could be a tool for democratizing access to knowledge, making sports more accessible, bringing people closer to the arts, and much more. We realized that, from our corner of the world, we could contribute to society and help drive positive change.

That realization inspired us to make professional tools available to everyone: tools that had previously been accessible only to large companies. Tools that could make event organization easier, help activate local economies, and support the growth of communities.

Through Ticketopolis, its technology, and our experience, we could continue making a positive impact on society, this time, on a global scale.

And our work isn’t finished. Along with continuing to add new features and improvements to Ticketopolis, we have three projects in the works that are much more focused on education, all with the same goal: to democratize knowledge and help it reach more people.

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