PRESS & MEDIA KIT
Everything you need to write about the Fringe.
4,465 shows, 308 venues, one map — with the data, quotes and story to go with it. Take what you need. Anything missing? Email oliver@edfringemap.com and we'll send it the same day.
Every show on the programme, once, back to back, no sleep and no travel between venues. The festival itself runs for three weeks.
THE FACTS
- Shows on the map
- 4,465
- Venues
- 308
- Languages
- 5 (EN · 中文 · ES · FR · DE)
- Price to use
- Free — no login, no tracking
- How it's funded
- Clearly labelled promoted listings and sponsorship — organic listings and ratings are never altered
- Data source
- Official Edinburgh Festivals Listings API
- Made by
- Oliver & Jessica Cormack, Edinburgh
STORY ANGLES — TAKE ONE
Five stories sitting in this year's programme. Every figure is computed from the official listings and is free to quote, with credit to Fringe Map. If you want one cut a different way, ask and we'll run it today.
- 01
It would take 199 days to watch the Edinburgh Fringe
199 days · 4,465 shows
The festival lasts three weeks. Seeing all of it would take most of a year. Nobody has ever seen the Fringe, only a corner of it.
- 02
Only 26% of the Edinburgh Fringe is Scottish
1,145 of 4,465 shows · 74 countries
The world's biggest arts festival is hosted by a city that supplies a quarter of it. England sends more shows than Scotland does, 42% against 26%. Full country breakdown on request.
- 03
The Fringe's ticket prices aren't the problem
Median £13 · 605 free shows · 238 shows over £20
The cost-of-the-Fringe story is usually told through rent. On tickets, the median show is £13, 42% of the programme is free or under a tenner, and only 238 shows out of 4,465 charge £20 or more.
- 04
428 shows all start in the same hour
109 shows go up at 19:30 alone
Every act wants the same slot on the same nights. 109 shows go up at 19:30 on the dot, so choosing one of them means turning down 108 others at that exact moment.
- 05
645 shows get exactly one day
645 single-day runs · 116 venues with one show
One performance, one chance to be found. Miss it and there is no second night.
THE FRINGE 2026, BY THE NUMBERS
Free to quote, please credit Fringe Map. Figures are live from the official programme and update as it changes.
SCALE
How much is actually on.
MONEY
The Fringe is cheaper than its reputation.
WHERE IT COMES FROM
The Edinburgh Fringe is mostly not Scottish.
THE CRUSH
Why choosing is the hard part.
WHAT WE CAN'T PUT ON A PAGE
Everything above describes the programme. We also see the other half: what festival-goers search for, filter by and click through to book, including the searches that come back empty.
We don't publish that. We do share findings from it with journalists working on a story. If you want to know what audiences are looking for this year, and where the programme isn't meeting them, email us and we'll pull it.
BOILERPLATE — COPY & PASTE
Fringe Map (edfringemap.com) is a free, independent interactive map of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, plotting all 4,465 shows across 308 venues on a single map you can filter by genre, day and area. Every show is available in five languages. It is built by Oliver and Jessica Cormack, a brother-and-sister team from Edinburgh, using the official Edinburgh Festivals Listings API. Ed Fringe Map is not affiliated with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society.
Stats update automatically as the festival programme changes, so this figure is current.
THE STORY
Fringe Map is built by Oliver and Jessica Cormack, a brother and sister born and raised in Edinburgh. Every August their family did the Fringe together — flyers on the kitchen table, the paper programme on the floor, working out how to fit four shows into one Sunday.
Oliver worked three summers behind a bar in the Cowgate, where tourists off the train at Waverley would lean over and ask for a recommendation, overwhelmed by how much was on. Most visitors only ever see a corner of the Fringe. Fringe Map is the tool the two of them wanted to hand those tourists: every show, on one map, filterable in seconds. Oliver builds it; Jessica, a graphic designer, shapes how it looks.
COVERAGE
- Passionate Edinburgh brother and sister design interactive Festival Fringe map →
Yahoo News
- Passionate Edinburgh brother and sister design interactive Festival Fringe map →
MSN
- Passionate Edinburgh brother and sister design duo launch interactive Fringe Map →
Edinburgh Live
- Edinburgh brother and sister duo launch interactive Fringe map →
The Edinburgh Reporter
- Edinburgh Fringe Map launched by sibling design duo →
Deadline News
ASSETS
Logo and screenshots are available on request — email us and say what format you need (square, wide, dark, light) and we'll turn it around fast. The live map itself is at edfringemap.com.
CONTACT
Oliver Cormack · Edinburgh
oliver@edfringemap.com