New Year’s Eve Events

Send off the year in style with Nightlife’s range of features for New Year’s Eve events. Keep reading to learn how to use them to create the ultimate end-of-year atmosphere in a venue.

Our New Year’s Eve content has seasonal availability. Looking to use this outside of December? Let us know! We’ll make sure it’s available at a designated venue.

How To Queue The New Year’s Eve Countdown

Leading up to New Year’s Eve, Nightlife has a placeholder track ready for you to schedule for 11.50PM on 31st December. The week before New Year’s Eve it will automatically update to be a 10 minute mix of party songs and visual content from the year that was to countdown to midnight.

Here is how to schedule your New Year’s Eve Countdown via the Manage My Nightlife web or mobile app:

1. Open Manage My Nightlife on a phone, tablet or PC.
2. In the Menu, select the Search Songs page.
3. In the search bar, type “2026” or “NYE Countdown“
4. Open the Song Details. If using a phone or Nightlife Tablet: Tap the blue down arrow to the right of the track title. If using a PC: Click on the track title to open a pop up window.
5. Click or tap the clock icon to open the scheduling window in the song details.
6. Set the track to play at 11.50pm on 31st December in the scheduling window.
7. Select the option to interrupt the playing song at the time and date specified. This will fade out the current song and ensure the mix starts on time.
8. Click or tap Schedule.

New Zealand Nightlife Users: Alternatively a 10-second version of the New Year’s Eve Countdown is also available. This should be set to play at 11:59:45PM on 31st December. Please get in touch with NZ support for assistance.

To check or delete a scheduled track: Look for a clock icon on the Current Playlist page. Tapping on the clock will show all scheduled tracks and relevant details. To delete, tap the circle to the right of the track to select it and then tap the trash icon.

How To Queue The DJ NYE Set

Full of this year’s biggest and best party tunes, start playing the four-hour DJ NYE set at 9PM for the ultimate party mix to welcome in the new year.

If a mix or song has been scheduled to play before midnight, like the New Year’s Eve Countdown Mash-up, the DJ NYE set can still be queued to play from 9PM – it will be temporarily interrupted to play any scheduled content and then resume once the content has finished.

1. Open Manage My Nightlife on a phone, Nightlife Tablet or PC
2. In the Menu, select the Queue Lists page
3. Select the All Lists tab
4. Expand the Nightlife Lists heading
5. In the DJ Sets category, click or tap the square checkbox next to a DJ Set to select it for queuing
6. Click or tap the green Queue List button (‘Queue / Schedule List’ on the Web App)
7. Click or tap Custom Order
8. Set the Session Duration that the DJ Set should play for
9. Click or tap the Queue List button

How to Display a NYE Countdown Slide

Complete with a large animation on an ambient screen, this timer counts down the days, minutes, and hours until New Year’s Eve.

1. Open Manage My Nightlife app on a PC
2. In the Menu, select the Digital Signage page
3. Ensure the User Digital Signage tab is selected
4. Select Library from the options at the top of the page
5. Find and click the New Years Countdown.zip from the options available
6. Click Next
7. Use the options to customise when and for how long the slide will be displayed:
   • Set the Duration for how long the image will be displayed each time it appears on screen (10s is a common choice).
   • To limit how regularly the slide appears, tick the Delay box and nominate how many minutes must pass before the slide appears in rotation again.
   • Click the Between Dates option and set end dates to be the 31st December
8. Click Create. The image will now appear in rotation, alongside other advertising.

To learn more about customising advertising and visuals using Manage My Nightlife, check out Managing Signage and Managing Visuals.

Frequently Asked Questions

Check out these common questions about scheduling or queuing audio and visual content for New Year’s Eve in Manage My Nightlife Nightlife.