HODDLE

About Hoddle

Making it easier to discover what's on in Melbourne

Why We Built This

Melbourne has an incredible cultural scene, but finding events shouldn't be as challenging as it is.

Finding what's on often means checking multiple ticketing sites, signing up for endless newsletters, and manually tracking venues, or worse, missing your favourite artist because you found out too late. We thought there had to be a better way.

Set custom alerts for what you actually care about, explore pricing trends across our entire database, and dive into our archive preserving Melbourne's cultural history for future reference and research.

What Makes Us Different

One Search, Every Event

Stop checking multiple websites. Find concerts, theatre, sports and festivals all in one place.

Smart Alerts, Your Way

Ditch the spam. Set custom notifications for exactly what you want, like your favourite artists, venues or event types.

Powerful Insights

Compare ticket prices across categories, spot seasonal trends and discover the best value events.

Complete Event Archive

Explore Melbourne's event history. Our archive preserves past concerts, shows and festivals for research, trend analysis and cultural reference.

Where Our Data Comes From

We aggregate events from trusted sources, updated daily:

Primary

Ticketmaster

Major concerts, sports events and theatre productions via the official Discovery API.

Venue

Marriner Group

Premium theatre, musicals and performing arts across Melbourne's finest venues.

Regent Theatre
Princess Theatre
Comedy Theatre
Forum Melbourne
Plaza Ballroom
Community

What's On Melbourne

Festivals, exhibitions and cultural events from the City of Melbourne.

Smart deduplication: Events appearing on multiple platforms are automatically merged to show you the most complete information.

How We Operate Responsibly

Data ethics matter. Here's our commitment:

  • Official APIs first

    We use official data sources wherever available and respect all terms of service.

  • Direct attribution

    All bookings link directly to the official ticketing source. We don't sell tickets.

  • Respectful scraping

    We follow robots.txt rules, implement rate limiting and avoid overloading source servers.

  • Transparent data use

    We collect event interactions (views, favourites) to improve recommendations. Your data stays private and is never sold.

Get in Touch

Questions, feedback or found a bug? We'd love to hear from you.

Event organisers: Need your events removed? Contact us and we'll process your request within 48 hours.