TIME&SPACE vs Premagic: Photo Delivery or Event Marketing?
TIME&SPACE · Business of Events
TIME&SPACE and Premagic look similar and solve different problems. One delivers photos to your guests. The other turns your guests into marketers. Here is how to tell which one you actually need.
TIME&SPACE vs Premagic: Photo Delivery or Event Marketing?
In short: These two products get compared often and they are not really competitors. Premagic is an event marketing platform that uses photos as the mechanism. We are a photo delivery platform. If your goal is that every guest leaves with their photos, that is us. If your goal is that every attendee posts about your event and you can prove the registrations it drove, that is them. Deciding which sentence is yours settles it faster than any feature table.
What Premagic Is
Premagic is based in Bangalore with a Dubai presence, and their homepage headline is "Turn Every Attendee Into Your Event Marketer". The subhead is the giveaway: "Get attendees, speakers & exhibitors posting about your event. Their posts bring tracked registrations, with no ad spend." As of 23 September 2026 their site says they power 4,000+ events worldwide.
Look at how they organise their product menu and the strategy is obvious. It is arranged by outcome rather than by feature: grow registrations, amplify reach, spark buzz. Underneath sit referrals, personalised advocacy posters, AI avatars, photo UGC and AI-matched galleries, plus sponsor content, registration and check-in, and integrations. The face-matched gallery is in there, but it is one mechanism among several serving a marketing goal, not the product itself.
Their published case studies make the same point. They report registrations driven, reach generated and advertising spend avoided. They do not lead with how many guests received a photo.
Where Premagic Is Stronger
Pre-event advocacy. Their personalised "I'm attending" posters are generated before the event and designed for the attendee to post. That is organic reach in the window when you are still selling tickets. Photo delivery, ours included, can only ever work after the event has happened. This is the single capability we most obviously lack.
Referral tracking that ties a post to a registration. They instrument the loop from an attendee's post through to someone else registering. If your budget conversation is about pipeline rather than experience, that attribution is what the conversation needs.
Registration and check-in. They sit earlier in the event stack than we do. We are not a registration system and do not try to be.
Sponsor placements inside the gallery. They insert sponsored images and video between attendee photos, with clickable logos and tiered placement. We do sponsor watermarking on downloads instead, which is more restrained but also less inventory to sell.
A white-label door for agencies. They name event management companies as a distinct buyer with an explicit white-label offer.
Where TIME&SPACE Is Stronger
Photo delivery is the product, not the mechanism. Everything we build serves one question: did the person in the photograph get the photograph. That focus shows up in the parts nobody demos, like re-matching when photographers upload late, or what happens to a guest who scans eight months later.
You can see the price. Ours is on the pricing page: 188 EUR, 488 EUR and 888 EUR per event, no subscription. We checked on 23 September 2026 and premagic.com/pricing returns a 404; every call to action on their site is "Book a Demo". Their pricing is not public.
Galleries last 365 days on every plan, including the cheapest, with no upgrade required.
EU hosting and published retention. Selfie data deleted after 30 days, the face index deleted a year after upload, explicit consent before the camera opens, all in our privacy policy. Premagic operates from Bangalore and Dubai. For an EU organiser handling biometric data under Article 9, where the processing happens and what the retention periods are is a procurement question, not a preference, and you should ask any vendor including us to put their answer in writing.
Self-serve. Create an event and go live without a call.
Crews as well as software. Our agency arm can shoot the event. Premagic delivers what your photographers produce.
Portuguese and Spanish, in your timezone. We are in Lisbon.
Capability Comparison
| | TIME&SPACE | Premagic | |---|---|---| | Face-matched photo galleries | Yes, the core product | Yes, one mechanism among several | | Pre-event advocacy posters | No | Yes | | Referral to registration attribution | No | Yes | | Registration and check-in | No | Yes | | Face-matched video delivery | No | No | | Sponsor placement | Watermark on downloads | Sponsored images and video inside the gallery | | Public pricing | Yes | Not published as of 23 Sep 2026 | | Self-serve signup | Yes | Book a Demo | | Gallery lifetime | 365 days, every plan | Not published as of 23 Sep 2026 | | Published retention periods | Yes, 30 days for selfie data | Ask them directly | | Data processed in the EU | Yes | Bangalore and Dubai base, ask them | | Photography crews available | Yes, agency arm | No | | Languages | English, Portuguese, Spanish | English |
No comparative scan rates or delivery percentages here for either product. Those depend on your event.
One Myth Worth Killing
Premagic is often described as doing face-matched video delivery, where a guest receives the clips they appear in. As of 23 September 2026 that is not a capability either company has. They do place sponsored video inside photo galleries, which is a different thing, and they make advocacy graphics for video sessions, which is different again. We do not do face-matched video either. If someone tells you one of us delivers video by face, ask them to show it working.
Which One Should You Pick
Pick Premagic if: your objective is measurable marketing output from the event, you want attendees posting before the doors open, you need referral-to-registration attribution, you want registration and check-in in the same system, or you want sponsor inventory inside the gallery.
Pick TIME&SPACE if: your objective is that guests, speakers and artists actually receive their photos, you want the price without a call, you need EU processing with published retention periods, you want galleries that live a year, you want photography crews and delivery from one supplier, or you are running events in Portugal and Spain.
Use both if you are running a large conference where marketing amplification and photo delivery are two separate budget lines with two separate owners. They do not conflict.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: How much does Premagic cost?
As of 23 September 2026 Premagic does not publish pricing: premagic.com/pricing returns a 404 and every call to action is a demo request. We publish ours: 188 EUR, 488 EUR and 888 EUR per event.
Q: Is Premagic a photo delivery platform?
It includes face-matched galleries, but the company positions itself as event marketing: their own headline is about turning attendees into marketers, and their case studies report registrations and reach rather than photo delivery. If photo delivery is the job you are hiring for, compare on that basis rather than on the category label.
Q: Does either platform deliver video to guests by face?
No. Neither does, as of 23 September 2026.
Q: Which is better for GDPR?
Ask both of us the same three questions in writing: where is the data processed, how long is biometric data retained, and is consent explicit before capture. Our answers are the EU, 30 days for selfie data and a year for the face index, and yes, all published in our privacy policy. Do not accept any vendor's summary of a competitor's compliance, including ours.
Founder, TIME&SPACE