Amsterdam Dance Event and nighttime culture consultancy VibeLab are teaming up to launch the Nighttime Culture Index, described as the first global measure of the cultural vitality of nightlife. The project debuts at ADE this October, timed to the festival’s 30th anniversary edition, a milestone that’s hard to ignore given how central ADE has become to the electronic music industry’s calendar over the past three decades.
The numbers around nightlife’s economic footprint are already well established. According to the Night Time Economy Report, the global nighttime economy contributes roughly 3% of global GDP, generates…
