UPDATE: Feedback will now close on the 19th of January.
Sydney Spectaculars has begun trialling a new newsletter as part of a wider review into the website.
In the menu, you will find a subscription block. Sometimes, it may also appear while browsing the site like towards the end of an article (see picture above). Enter your e-mail address and then you can choose what articles get sent to you based on your interest.
You can choose everything or what just interests you (see picture above). For example:
- ‘Flagship’ Sydney Spectaculars refer to major events of Sydney that are held annually or biannually &have a ‘wow’ factor. There are currently 5 such events – Sydney New Year’s Eve, Vivid Sydney, Australia Day In Sydney, Airshows Downunder Shellharbour & State Of Origin.
- ‘Extraordinary’ Sydney Spectaculars refer to major events of Sydney that are held less frequently than annually but also have a ‘wow’ factor. Currently, the most well-known type of event this category involves are the Navy reviews – the last of which was held a decade ago.
- ‘Other’ Sydney Spectaculars refer to events of Sydney that are more frequent than being held on an annual basis or are annual but do not have a ‘wow’ factor currently. The most well-known event of the former would be ‘Badu Gili: Wonder Woman‘, a near-nightly projection show on the Bennelong Sail of the Sydney Opera House while the latter would include events like Sydney Lunar Festival.
You can also choose a specific event if you are only interested in a certain event too.
We will change our home page in the next week to a static home page where you can click on the events you are most interested in and you can see the latest updates there.
All of this is so we can provide more event news to you more frequently. The current home page set-up only allows a focus of 1 story and so publication of new stories has been limited to a maximum 1 per day to give each story at least 24 hours for our readers to read.
The menu on the left has also been simplified regarding Sydney New Year’s Eve particularly given the ‘revolutions’ now evolve through Vivid Sydney rather than Sydney New Year’s Eve. To find the Sydney New Year’s Eve fireworks soundtracks, just click ‘History’.
We are also happy to take on any ideas that will help improve the site. If you have an idea, submit it here! Feedback closes on 19th January 2024. If you miss the deadline, you can always e-mail us.
All these changes & the larger review is due to the major changes coming to these events in the short-term. We started back in 2011 initially with Sydney New Year’s Eve – everyone’s favourite – then Vivid Sydney became popular in the mid-2010’s & now 3 extra major events have been added as ‘flagship’ Sydney Spectaculars in the past 5 years. We never expected Sydney’s events to grow so much more spectacular since we started what was an archival YouTube channel & is now this site dedicated to these iconic events. The interest from around the world on these events is extraordinary. We hope these changes will make finding information on these jaw-dropping events easier for all.
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