Pál Danyi, Chief Development Officer and Pricing Expert at DynamO, has spent more than three decades at the intersection of artificial intelligence and pricing strategy. His career spans telecom, tourism, consulting and academia, with a PhD in artificial intelligence and tenure with leading global organisations including Ernst & Young and Magyar Telekom. This experience now forms the backbone of DynamO’s pricing engine.

He has also authored two books, Modern Pricing (2021) and Pricing For Strategic Managers (2025), both reflecting the central idea behind DynamO: pricing in the 21st century must be data-driven, audience-focused and ethical. 

For arts organisations, theatres, festivals and live entertainment venues across the UK, this approach supports smarter ticket pricing, stronger attendance and more sustainable revenue growth.

The data behind the prices

DynamO’s pricing algorithm is a demand-based system designed for cultural events, live entertainment and venues of all sizes.

Pál explains, “Based on sales figures and 30+ other parameters, we predict the demand for events and recommend prices accordingly.”

These parameters include: 

• Venue capacity and configuration
• Event type and genre
• Day of the week and seasonality
• Matinee vs. evening performance
• Audience composition (children vs. adult mix)
• Star power and media impact
• Sales velocity patterns
• Sales period length
• Star power

This makes DynamO a powerful dynamic pricing solution for theatres, performing arts venues, museums, festivals and cultural organisations looking to improve their ticketing performance.

“We have different algorithms for small venues under 100 seats, for medium-sized venues of 300 or 500 seats, and for large arenas and festivals,” Pál says. “Genre is also very important. The purchasing behavior of theatrical audiences is completely different to that of comedy, concert and sports audiences, for instance.”

Sports events often sell 40-50% of tickets in the final days before the event, while a West End production with a famous name attached will typically generate most sales earlier on in the sales cycle.

Seasonal effects, such as Christmas, as well as audience composition, are also factored into recommendations. The sales curve for a pantomime, for example, which goes on sale far in advance, will be very different to that of a non-seasonal production with tickets on sale much closer to the event itself.

“Our algorithm adapts to these different sales curves and can provide accurate predictions for different types of genres and different days,” he adds

As such, DynamO’s algorithm isn’t universally applied. It recognises structural differences in demand curves and adjusts recommendations accordingly. This differentiation is what separates DynamO from generic dynamic pricing tools. 

“It is not a one-size-fits-all engine: it is a context-aware pricing system,” Pál summarises.

For organisations searching for dynamic pricing software for arts and culture, this context-led approach is especially valuable in sectors where organisational mission, audience development and affordability all matter.

Adaptive goal management

In the early stages of DynamO’s development, most clients defined a single primary goal - usually revenue maximisation. Over time, this evolved.

Today, the algorithm supports changing and layered objectives, such as:

• Maximising attendance during early sales phases
• Switching to revenue optimisation as demand strengthens
• Balancing bums-on-seats and profit for longer sales cycles
• Managing risk in short campaigns versus 6-month sales periods

“The two major goals are filling seats and maximising revenue,” Pál says. “But these goals may change over time, and our algorithm can follow these changes.”

The system dynamically adjusts pricing logic as priorities shift. This is especially important for:

• New productions with uncertain demand
• Emerging artists
• Experimental programming

For new shows with low sales figures, “Of course we can drop prices, but it’s important that they don’t fall too dramatically - because the majority of the audience may come later.”

Different pricing strategies also apply depending on how quickly a venue wants to react to demand signals, and the length of a sales period.

“We have different pricing strategies depending on how fast the client wants to react,” he says. “A one-year sales period has completely different characteristics than a 30-day sales period. Our algorithm can adapt to each.”

“This goal-sensitivity allows clients to treat pricing as a strategic instrument, rather than a reactive tactic.”

Transparency by design

We believe that pricing should strengthen audience trust - not undermine it.

An important pillar of DynamO’s system is transparency and control.

“Sometimes there are scandals in the news that certain shows have skyrocketed prices,” Pál notes, alluding to Oasis-gate. “Control is an important pillar of our approach, and we have designed various features to avoid such surges.”

Transparency is equally important.

“We help clients in their communication with audiences and customers, to help them understand how and why the prices change each day,” he adds.

With minimum and maximum price caps, and alignment with industry best practice, at DynamO ethical dynamic pricing isn’t a marketing slogan - it’s a structural commitment.

In fact, when dynamic pricing is embedded into a ticketing strategy from the outset, it can be an invaluable tool to support organisational mission. 

For example, after switching to DynamO from another provider, Edinburgh International Festival 2025 achieved its highest ticket sales percentage in over a decade, with over 88% of all tickets sold - while also doubling down on its commitment to inclusivity and accessibility. 

Not only did the programme feature its first (sold out) dementia-friendly concert, the festival also offered its highest ever number of discounted tickets to D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent audience members, with half of all tickets priced at £30 or less – proving that commercial viability and organisational purpose can and should work hand-in-hand. 

Scaling with confidence

One of the clearest demonstrations of DynamO’s robustness is its ability to aid event scaling. The algorithm supports:

• Demand pacing management
• Revenue optimisation across expanding capacity
• Controlled risk when moving into larger venues

“In many cases, DynamO has enabled clients to scale up a show,” Pál shares. “If a production has been successful in a 300 or 400 seat venue, we can scale it up to 2,000 seats.”

In one standout example, a stand-up comedy show expanded from a 300-seat venue to an 18,000-seat arena.

“Scaling up is something producers are typically afraid of because they consider it risky,” he says. “But using our dynamic pricing solution, it’s not a risk anymore.”

For organisers, this transforms pricing from a constraint into an enabler of growth.

This demonstrates how dynamic ticket pricing for arts organisations can support both revenue generation and cultural access - a key priority for many UK venues, events and institutions.

Intelligent, ethical pricing

DynamO’s pricing engine is the product of:

• 30+ years of AI research and academic study
• Tried and tested pricing strategies and implementation across global industries
• Continuous refinement based on real-world event data

“Our primary goal is always understanding our clients and fully meeting their needs,” Pál says.

“At its heart is a simple conviction: pricing should reflect demand intelligently, serve clearly defined goals, and maintain audience trust.”

That is the philosophy guiding DynamO - and the reason its algorithm continues to scale alongside its clients across culture, sports and live events.

Find out more

Whether you are a theatre, festival, concert hall, arts centre, museum or cultural venue, DynamO supports smarter ticket pricing for the UK arts sector through data-led, transparent and adaptable dynamic pricing.

If you’re interested in discovering how DynamO Pricing could help your organisation increase revenue and fill empty seats, get in touch using our contact form or email info@dynamopricing.com. We’d love to hear from you.

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Through our partnership with Nuweb, DynamO is helping ticketing platforms and organisations move from insight to action faster, combining real-time pricing intelligence with the infrastructure needed to deliver updates when they matter most.

In this interview, Anthony Escott-Lawrence, Head of Product at Nuweb, talks about making dynamic pricing practical, scalable and effective for modern ticketing platforms.

Powering dynamic pricing in practice

Nuweb describes itself as “the engine behind ticketing platforms”, providing the infrastructure that powers ticketing businesses behind the scenes. From inventory and pricing to payments and integrations, its platform is built to help partners scale under their own brand.

That makes Nuweb a natural partner for DynamO. As Anthony explains, “DynamO Pricing fits into this through the ecosystem we’ve built around our platform. As a systems integrator, we enable ticketing platforms to select the tools that best meet their needs and connect seamlessly with us.”

DynamO provides the insight, and actioning it at scale is made quick and easy with Nuweb, helping platforms respond to demand in real time.

Why infrastructure matters

Anthony’s view is that pricing strategy is only valuable if systems allow teams to execute it seamlessly.

“Pricing intelligence is only as good as its execution,” he says. “You can have the smartest algorithms in the world, but if your ticketing system can’t actually apply those decisions, it doesn’t really matter.”

That is where the Nuweb x DynamO partnership becomes really powerful. DynamO delivers demand signals, market benchmarks and pricing recommendations, while the integration with  Nuweb ensures platforms can apply those decisions at scale and without friction.

For Anthony, this is where many older systems fall short. “A lot of legacy systems weren’t built for this,” he says. Modern ticketing infrastructure, by contrast, needs to support pricing that moves responsively with demand, without waiting for human intervention, as part of the live sales process.

Making dynamic pricing accessible

Anthony is clear that dynamic pricing is already familiar to consumers. “You see it in airlines, hotels, ride-sharing - pricing moves with demand,” he says. “Live events aren’t really any different, but a lot of platforms just haven’t had the tools to respond in real time.”

That gap between ambition and capability is exactly what the partnership is designed to close.

Historically, one of the biggest barriers to dynamic pricing has been the cost and complexity of implementation. Anthony sees the Nuweb x DynamO partnership as a way of lowering that barrier for ticketing platforms that want to modernise without high upfront payment.

“There’s no heavy upfront investment with DynamO,” he says, “and when you combine that with our infrastructure, it opens things up to platforms that might not have been able to justify it before.”

Dynamic pricing shouldn’t be limited to just the largest operators with extensive in-house resources. With the right infrastructure in place, more platforms can access the tools they need to respond to demand more intelligently.

What better pricing looks like

“If someone has to log in and change prices by hand, you’re already behind the demand curve,” Anthony explains.

The future, in his view, is automation supported by real-time data. That means systems that can respond as demand changes, learn continuously and support better decisions over time.

For organisations looking to future-proof pricing, Anthony’s advice is simple: focus on clean real-time data, choose open infrastructure and start experimenting.

“Ultimately, the organisations that do this well are the ones treating pricing as something they continuously develop - not just something you set once and forget.”

That is what the Nuweb x DynamO partnership is helping to deliver: a more connected approach to ticketing, where pricing intelligence is not just available, but actionable.

Interested in exploring dynamic pricing?

If you’re interested in finding out how a partnership with DynamO could help your organisation increase revenue and fill empty seats, get in touch using our contact form or email info@dynamopricing.com. We’d love to hear from you.

DynamO is thrilled to announce a new partnership with Nuweb Group, introducing intelligent pricing signals into Nuweb's product suite.

The integration will be rolled out across Nuweb Group’s network of ticketing partners, offering fully automated real-time pricing updates to venues and event organisers.
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“We’re pleased to welcome DynamO to our marketing suite,” said Anthony Escott-Lawrence, Head of Product at Nuweb Group.

“This is precisely the type of partnership our ecosystem was designed to support. It gives our ticketing platform partners a competitive advantage, helps their organisers sell more tickets, and ensures fair pricing for end buyers.”

Nuweb Group supports a wide range of ticketing platforms across the live events and entertainment sector through its modern ticketing infrastructure.

DynamO doesn't require any upfront costs or minimum usage requirements, meaning ticketing platforms can add a layer of pricing intelligence that was previously only available to the largest operators.
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“This partnership helps make advanced, software-driven pricing accessible to everyone” said Bence Marosi, Founder and CEO of DynamO Pricing.
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“Smaller venues can benefit from sophisticated yet fully controllable pricing signals, while for those with more complex needs, deeper and more comprehensive support is also available. It’s a great opportunity for all Nuweb users, and an important strategic step forward for both companies.”

The partnership aligns with a broader trend toward intelligent pricing models in the events industry, as venues look for ways to reduce unsold inventory without resorting to steep discounts late in the sales cycle.

DynamO will provide data-driven pricing signals informed by demand trends, historical sales, market benchmarks, and selected external data points within the Nuweb platform.

The solution lets organisers set minimum and maximum prices, define rules aligned with demand scenarios or sales objectives, and apply safeguards to retain full control of pricing.

The system will be fully integrated into Nuweb Group’s product suite, automatically sharing sales and behavioural data with DynamO Pricing and sending back recommendations directly into the ticketing workflow.
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"Ticketing platforms trust us because we constantly improve our technology," said Anthony Escott-Lawrence, Head of Product at Nuweb Group.

"We deliver updates, integrations, and new capabilities regularly at no extra cost, helping partners stay competitive without added development work."

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About Nuweb Group

Nuweb Group is a global ticketing technology partner, powering event experiences in over 110 countries. Nuweb provides open infrastructure that enables organisers, venues, and ticketing providers to own their platforms, maximise revenue, and operate securely at scale. Its technology integrates easily with existing systems to support ticket sales, operations, and expansion into new markets.

About DynamO Pricing

DynamO Pricing is a market-leading pricing technology company serving live events and visitor attractions across multiple continents. The company works with cultural, sports and music organisations to optimise ticket pricing using software-driven pricing engines and expert support. Its solution is proven in live environments, supporting tens of millions of pounds in ticket revenue, and is developed and operated by a team of PhD-level pricing specialists.

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Interested in exploring dynamic pricing?

If you’re interested in finding out how a partnership with DynamO could help your organisation increase revenue and fill empty seats, get in touch using our contact form or email info@dynamopricing.com. We’d love to hear from you.