Ora already lets you sell tickets and run ads from Host. Sponsors and vendors sit next to that, in the same organizer account. Brands looking to sponsor events join a public portal, get matched to nights whose audience fits, capture leads with one scan, and leave with an ROI report. You invite them. You set the booth and sponsorship prices. They pay when they book. Tickets and ads live on Host.
How the sponsor and vendor portal works
Create the event, then open Sponsors & Vendors. From there you invite a brand, publish sponsorship tiers, and open vendor booths. Organizers use invites to reach companies in the Ora directory — including names people type when they search how to get Red Bull, Monster, or Nike to sponsor an event. Red Bull is in that directory. Being listed is not the same as paying to sponsor your night. They have declined invites; a free host event is not a paid sponsorship. Invite them if the fit is honest. Do not put a logo on the flyer until they book. Open it from Sponsors & Vendors.
Match is the other door. Brands looking to sponsor local events see inventory whose audience lines up with what they sell. You are not emailing a cold deck to every intern at a beverage company. The portal shows the event, the city, and whether a sponsorship or a booth is open. One partner account can sponsor the stage and run a booth.
After the event they get what Ora already promises on the brand page: leads they scanned (name, email, gender, age range, and zip from the ticket, with consent at scan), booth sales through the built-in POS with payouts after the event, and a report they can share. Payment is held until the event happens. Ora does not guarantee a payout number or an audience size we have not measured on that event.
How to find sponsors — and how to ask
How to get sponsored is mostly creator and athlete intent. For organizers the useful version is how to find sponsors, how to ask a company for sponsorship, and which companies actually sponsor local events.
Be specific. Ora hosts wellness, nightlife, food, salsa, yoga, and storytelling — not youth sports, church leagues, golf outings, or hackathons. Corporate sponsorship opportunities get taken seriously when the date, city, and room are real.
Ask like a host. Who is coming, what the brand gets (logo, booth, one-scan leads), what it costs, when it happens. The invite in Sponsors & Vendors is that ask with the event attached.
Who sponsors a salsa night or a wellness class is often a local food brand, a beverage company, a fitness label, or a maker — companies that sponsor local events because the zip codes on the tickets match the stores they care about. Ticket buyers on Ora already share those fields at checkout, which is why a brand can see fit before they spend.
Leave the door open even if you also invite by name. Live events looking for sponsors and vendor booths are listed for brands on Partners — including Gan Eden: A Night of Music and Mysticism and The Saturday Reset @ Porsche. First Thursday Social is a host on Ora — a real organizer page, not a sponsor case study.
If you are a brand who landed on this URL, you want Partners. This page is how organizers get sponsors for an event.
Brands looking for events to sponsor: go to Partners.
Questions, answered
- What does it cost brands to join?
- Joining is free. Each event sets its own sponsorship and booth prices — brands only pay when they book one.
- Who owns the leads from a booth scan?
- The partner who scanned them. Every lead a booth scans is theirs to keep and export — attendees consent at scan time.
- What is the difference between a sponsor and a vendor?
- A sponsor buys visibility — tiers, logo, activations. A vendor books a booth and can sell through the built-in POS. One partner account can do both on the same event.
- What does a brand get with each lead?
- Name, email, gender, age range, and zip — captured from the ticket in one scan. No forms, no badge scanners.
- How do booth sales get paid out?
- Sell through the built-in POS and payouts land in the partner account after the event, with a line-item report.
- What if the event does not happen as planned?
- Payment is held by Ora until the event happens — and if something goes wrong, the resolution team steps in. Ora does not guarantee a sales number or an audience size.