How we check
agencies

Every agency on EventAgencyFinder has passed the same checks. This page explains them, so you know what a listing here does and doesn't tell you.

1. Finding agencies

For each city we search for event agencies, event management companies and entertainment agencies using map listings, web search, industry association member lists and submissions from agencies. Anything that isn't an agency gets dropped at this stage: directories, marketplaces, venues that only rent their own space, social media pages and news sites.

2. Checking the website

An agency needs a working website of its own. We read up to four pages of it (home, about, services and contact), using a crawler that identifies itself and respects robots.txt. More about our crawler.

From those pages we confirm three things: it is an event business, it works in the city we list it under, and the site isn't parked, for sale or broken.

3. Checking it is still working

This is the check most directories skip. An agency is only listed if we find at least one sign it was active in the last 12 months:

• a project, news post or event photo on its own website dated within the last 12 months;
• a public review dated within the last 12 months, on a business listing that is still marked as open;
• the agency itself confirmed or claimed its listing within the last 12 months.

A copyright year in the footer doesn't count, because many websites update it automatically. If we can't find a sign, the agency stays off the list and we look again about a month later. Agencies whose business listing is marked as permanently closed are removed.

We repeat the website check every 90 days. A listing is hidden if the website fails two checks in a row.

4. Facts, with sources

For each agency we record a set of plain facts: event types, services, in-house entertainment, languages, other cities, the year it was founded, team size, clients or awards it mentions, and published prices. A fact is only recorded when the agency's own website states it. We store the page it came from and the exact words that support it, and each fact on a profile links to that page.

When a website doesn't mention something, we show nothing rather than guess. So if a profile doesn't list Arabic, the agency may still speak it; its site just doesn't say so.

We use software, including an AI model, to read websites and pull out these facts. It does not write anything you read on a listing. We hand-check a sample of agencies in every city against their websites, and if more than 5% of a sample is wrong, the whole batch is held back and fixed.

5. What we never publish

• Reviews, star ratings or rankings we made up or copied from other sites.
• Descriptions written by us. The only description on a profile is one the agency wrote itself after claiming its listing.
• Names, phone numbers or email addresses of individual people.
• Photos or logos, unless the agency uploads them after claiming its listing.

6. How listings are ordered

On every city and category page, Featured listings come first. Featured agencies pay for that position, and they are always labelled "Featured". After them, agencies are sorted by the date we last checked them, most recent first, and then alphabetically. The order is not a ranking of quality.

7. Corrections and removal

If a fact is wrong, the agency can claim its listing and correct it, or anyone can tell us. Agencies can remove their listing at any time with the "Remove this listing" link on their profile. Removal takes effect straight away and the page disappears from the site within the hour.

Last updated 19 October 2026.