Event Photo Delivery Platforms in Europe: An Honest Guide for 2026
TIME&SPACE · Business of Events
Six event photo platforms operating in Europe, what each one is actually built for, who pays, and the questions to ask before you choose. Written by one of them, with the others' strengths stated first.
Event Photo Delivery Platforms in Europe: An Honest Guide for 2026
In short: "Event photo platform" covers at least four different products. Organiser-pays platforms like TIME&SPACE and Memento deliver each guest their own photos after a selfie. Participant-pays services like Sportograf, and GetPica's marketplace, let guests buy their photos so the organiser pays little or nothing. Premagic uses photos as a tool for event marketing. Fotify collects photos from guests rather than delivering them from a photographer. The right one depends on who pays, whether your guests wear bib numbers, and who supplies the photographers. We are one of the six, so every competitor fact below is dated and taken from their own website, and each has its own full comparison.
Four Products That Share One Label
Organiser pays, guests receive. The organiser buys the service for the event, a photographer uploads, and every guest scans a QR code, takes a selfie and sees only the photos they are in. Guests pay nothing. TIME&SPACE and Memento work this way.
Participant pays. The service supplies or hosts the photography and each participant buys their own photos. The organiser pays little or nothing. Sportograf works this way for endurance sport, and GetPica offers a guest-paid marketplace alongside its business licence.
Event marketing with photos. Photos are the means, and the goal is reach and registrations: attendees share branded images that bring in the next audience. Premagic is built this way.
Guest upload. Guests are the photographers. They scan a code and add their own photos to a shared gallery or live screen. Fotify is built this way, and it suits events with no hired photographer.
The Six, Side by Side
| Platform | Based in | Model | Public price | Best fit | |---|---|---|---|---| | TIME&SPACE | Lisbon | Organiser pays, per event | Yes: 188, 488, 888 EUR | Conferences, festivals, corporate events, weddings | | Memento | Paris and New York | Organiser pays, enterprise licence | Not published, 23 Sep 2026 | Large congresses and sports federations | | GetPica | Milan | Business licence plus guest-paid marketplace | Not published, 23 Sep 2026 | Races and large events that want guest-funded coverage | | Sportograf | Germany | Participant pays | Per participant, after searching, 25 Sep 2026 | Running, cycling, triathlon, obstacle racing | | Premagic | Bangalore and Dubai | Event marketing platform | Not published, 23 Sep 2026 | Conferences focused on registrations and reach | | Fotify | United States | Guest upload, RSVP, invitations | Free up to about 49.99 EUR per event, 23 Sep 2026 | Parties and small weddings with no photographer |
Every linked comparison names the other company's strengths first and says when you should choose them over us.
Six Questions to Ask Before You Choose
1. Who pays? If your photography budget is zero, only a participant-pays model gets you coverage. If you want guests to receive their photos free as part of the experience, you want organiser-pays.
2. Do your guests wear numbers? At a race, bib numbers are the best way to match photos to people. Everywhere else, a selfie is.
3. Who supplies the photographers? Some services bring their own. Others, including us, work with your photographer, and we also run an agency if you need one.
4. Where is the face data processed, and for how long is it kept? In the EU, a face template is special-category data under Article 9 of the GDPR. Ask where it is processed, how long the selfie and the face index are kept, whether consent is recorded before any scan, and for a data processing agreement. Ours: processed in the EU, consent recorded before any scan, the selfie deleted within 30 days, and a data processing agreement with GDPR Article 28 terms available on request.
5. Can you see the price? Three of the six publish no price, which means a sales call before you can build a budget. That is a legitimate way to sell. It is also worth knowing before you start.
6. How long does the gallery stay open? Guests come back to their photos weeks later. Ours stays live for 365 days on every plan.
Where TIME&SPACE Fits
We are a Lisbon company doing one thing: making sure every guest at a professionally photographed event receives the photos they are in, with no account, no app required and no cost to the guest. Prices are public on the pricing page, and there is a machine-readable version for anyone comparing tools programmatically.
We are the wrong choice for a race with bib numbers, for an event with no photographer, and for a team whose real goal is registrations rather than photos. Each of those has a better answer in the table above.
No comparative performance figures appear in this guide. Competitor details were read from their own websites on the dates shown and will change over time, so check them before you decide.
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