How it works
From the programme booklet to a finished draft, without anyone typing up listings.
- 01
Read
CIXTRA keeps reading the websites, programme booklets, ticket shops, press mails and feeds of the venues in your area.
- 02
Match
Duplicates are merged and every detail keeps its source. When a venue moves a date, the listing follows.
- 03
Prepare
Calendars, weekend tips and newsletter blocks arrive as drafts, in several lengths.
- 04
Approve
Nothing runs on its own. Your editors choose, change and approve.
A week on the culture desk
What CIXTRA prepares and what the desk decides, day by day. Click a day.
Monday, 7:00
- CIXTRA
- Every venue's programme has been read. The week's dates are in the calendar on your website.
- Desk
- The desk sees what is new and what has changed since last week.
One publisher, many newsrooms
All editions work with the same entries. Each newsroom sees its area and writes its own texts.
Publisher
Sees every edition and the texts of each newsroom. Can take one over for its own version.
Newsroom of an edition
Sees its circulation area, at most the publisher's, and writes tips that appear only in its edition.
How to start
- 01
Conversation
We agree on the area, the sections and the channels you want to start with.
- 02
One area, one channel
We read in the venues in your area and start with one channel, for example the weekend calendar.
- 03
Expand
After two to four weeks we review it together and add areas and channels.
Common questions
Is anything published automatically?
No. Drafts stay drafts until someone on your desk approves them. Only the calendar can be set to keep itself up to date.
May we use the texts?
Yes. The drafts are written new. The venues' original texts are not copied.
Does it fit our editorial system?
Calendars and drafts come as an embed, through the data connection or as a file. Which route fits your system, we work out in the first conversation.
Is it only about culture?
No. Markets, fairs, guided tours, spectator sport and things for families are included too.
See Culture Desk with your area.
We show you a week with the venues in your area, as a calendar and as drafts.