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DJ Awards
Investor Update
06.08.26

The 25th DJ Awards. Amnesia Ibiza. Wednesday 7 October 2026 — the same year Amnesia turns fifty.

Eighteen months of groundwork, delivered in eight weeks. A three-year residency at Amnesia signed. YouTube as official broadcast partner. Pioneer signed as headline sponsor. The bankruptcy lifted, the company restructured, and Crossfade Capital Ltd now owns 100% of DJ Awards SL.

Wed 7 Oct 2026Amnesia IbizaLive on YouTube3-year residency
In short

The event is profitable, the structure is clean, and break-even sits at eleven tables out of thirty. Every major cost is contracted and every major partner is signed. This year's profit clears the historic creditors in full. In November we raise £1m at a £5m valuation.

€431kIncome
€268kCost
€245kNet profit
10.6Tables to break even, of 30
Who is delivering it

The partners

The core team
Commercial

Signed, and pending

Everything marked pending is agreed in principle and awaiting signature. None of it is in the numbers on this page.

[ Gala dinner photograph to be placed here ]
SIGNED

Pioneer

Headline sponsor. Show partner, integrated into the three-act history of dance music.

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SIGNED

YouTube

Official broadcast and streaming partner. Live special, and paying for the production crew.

SIGNED

Skiddle

Ticketing and distribution partner.

SIGNED

Naked Diablo

Every drink in the building — champagne, wine and tequila — in return for a category.

SIGNED

Apple Music

Corporate table, five senior executives, and a DJ Awards platform inside Apple Music for emerging artists.

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SIGNED

Orient Express

Corporate table. Announcing the Legends Tour from the stage on the night.

SIGNED

Meliá Hotels International

Corporate table, and host hotel partner for the 53-room buy-out.

PENDING

Jet2

£169,000

Hotel takeover in San Antonio, £19 party packages, and a Jet2-branded voting portal driving our numbers. This one changes everything.

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PENDING

Wingstop

£50,000

The Afro House category, a competition to find the next Black Coffee, and their own branded voting portal.

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PENDING

Monkey Shoulder

£65,000

Paid drinks partner. Sponsors the Icon Award to Amnesia's original owner.

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£284,000 of sponsorship is agreed and unsigned. Jet2 alone is £169,000 and brings a branded voting portal into their own customer base. Wingstop is £50,000, Monkey Shoulder £65,000. Not one euro of it appears in the income above — every figure on this page stands without them.

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Delivered

The rest of it

Amnesia — three-year residency signed, 7 October 2026
DJ Awards SL bankruptcy and restrictive measures lifted
Crossfade Capital Ltd incorporated and owns 100% of DJ Awards SL
Company restructure complete — notarisation 1 September
Roger Sanchez confirmed as Chairman of the Grand Jury
After-party agreement signed — Amnesia pay the €100,000 line-up fee, 80/20 profit share on door and bar
Line-up agreed — not yet confirmed or announced
MiM Ibiza — 53-room buy-out signed, funded by the packages sold into it
Ticketing website live
ROAR and Media Nanny appointed on social and PR, Core Events on sales, NYX on sponsorship
Marketing Director and Head of Awards and Events contracts signed
Three tables sold
Share certificates issued next week
The night

Running order

21:00Red carpet arrival
21:30Champagne reception
22:00Four-course gala dinner on the Terrace
22:30The show — fifty years of dance music in three acts
23:30The awards, broadcast live on YouTube
00:30Doors open — three thousand through the room
05:30Close

The Chairman's Table

€50,000. One only. Ten seats front and centre, presenting the top award live on the broadcast, red carpet with the press pool, champagne, €5,000 of after-party spend, the DJ box during the after-show and two rooms at the host hotel.

Not counted in any figure on this page. It carries almost no cost, so if it sells it is close to pure margin on top.

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The Inner Circle

Most visit Ibiza; very few truly experience it. We have taken over the iconic Hotel Es Vivé in Figueretas, now owned by Messi and managed by Meliá.

Two nights, private airport transfers, private transfers to and from the DJ Awards, two tickets to the ceremony, and dinner at Nobu on the Thursday followed by a water taxi into the old town. Transfers, food and drinks all included.

The Inner Circle
The structure

Two companies, one job each

Crossfade Capital Ltd

Scotland. The parent, and where your shares sit. Raises in sterling, holds the group, goes to Crowdcube in November. Owns 100% of DJ Awards SL.

DJ Awards SL

Spain. The trading company. Sells the tickets in euros, holds the residency, pays the euro costs, and owns the IP and trademarks now being registered across nine territories.

The model

Break-even is eleven tables

Sponsorship, seat income and the hotel packages cover most of the cost base before a single table on the main ladder sells.

Tables — 30 on a rising ladder, €5,000 to €25,000€325,000
Single seats and industry seat income€37,000
Sponsorship secured€69,000
Event income€431,000
Total event cost(€267,795)
Event net€163,205
Inner Circle — 15 at £5,000 for two€86,250
Mates rates — 10 at £3,000 for two€34,500
Hotel buy-out, transfers and hospitality(€38,516)
Hotel and packages, net€82,234
Combined net€245,439

Around £213,000. Excluded: the Chairman's Table, £284,000 of pending sponsorship, the after-party door and bar share, and general admission.

The legacy

Cleared by this one night

Every historic creditor is identified, quantified and on agreed terms. Nothing is disputed and nothing is hidden.

Third-party creditors, total£125,000
Profit from this year's event£213,000
Cleared, with headroom£88,000

Several creditors are converting to equity rather than taking cash. My own loans and those of my investment company are not being called in — they stay in the business.

The audience

The asset isn't the night.
It's the list.

250,000 people voted in 2025, up from 21,000 the year before. This year we go for a million — and our partners do the work. Wingstop and Jet2 each run branded voting portals into their own customer bases. Amnesia push to fifty years of theirs.

1MVote target 2026
538M+Combined winner reach
400MImpressions in 2025
9Territories, IP registered
The plan

Now, and what's next

11 AugustAnnouncement and launch

Date, venue and Chairman announced. Registration opens. First tables on sale.

19 AugustVoting opens

Nominees across 25 categories. Line-up revealed. Second table tier live.

16 – 21 SeptemberVoting closes, winners announced

Second PR peak. Final and top tiers on sale, all balances due.

7 OctoberThe 25th DJ Awards

Amnesia Ibiza, live on YouTube, aired in 90 countries.

November 2026Crowdcube — £1m at £5m

Into the database built over the preceding ten weeks.

April 2027IMS — the announcements

DJ Awards Ibiza 2027 and DJ Awards USA at the Faena, Miami.

December 2029The US round

Deliberately timed beyond the three-year holding period so nobody's relief is disturbed.

Valuation

Two steps, ten weeks apart

September 2026

£2.5m
  • Everything issued this month goes in at £2.50 a share — one price for one round
  • Debt conversions, share exchanges and new cash, all on the same terms
  • Priced before the event

November 2026

£5m
  • £1,000,000 on Crowdcube
  • Priced after the event, on the votes, the database and the profit delivered
  • Twice the September price

The step between the two is the event itself. That is the entire argument, and it will either be earned on 7 October or it won't.

Everything, line by line

See the event budget

Income, cost, break-even and the hotel P&L. Every figure on this page comes off one model.

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