Parookaville was founded in 2015, making this its 11th year.
The festival is part of Next Events GmbH's portfolio of electronic music events.
Livestream history
Parookaville has run an official livestream every year since 2022, making streaming a fixed part of the festival rather than a one-off. In 2022 it became the first major electronic music festival to carry a live festival broadcast on TikTok, streaming 15 DJ sets and reaching 5.7 million combined viewers on Facebook and parookaville.com. The festival has since expanded the broadcast each year, from about six hours per day in 2022 to nine hours per day and more than 75 acts across five stages in 2024. The 2025 anniversary stream carried roughly 60 acts from the Mainstage, Bill's Factory, Desert Valley and Cloud Factory across parookaville.com, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Facebook. All editions have been offered free to viewers.
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2025
parookaville.com · YouTube · TikTok · Instagram · FacebookNotable: Armin van Buuren, Hardwell, Steve Aoki, Timmy TrumpetFourth consecutive year of streaming, run with ING. Around 60 acts from Mainstage, Bill's Factory, Desert Valley and Cloud Factory. Ran Friday 5pm to midnight, Saturday 7pm to 2am, Sunday 6pm to 1am CET. The Opening Ceremony and Parookaville Ceremony were both streamed.
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2024
YouTube · TikTok · Facebook · InstagramNotable: Armin van Buuren, Robin Schulz, Paul Kalkbrenner, Steve AokiThird year of streaming. Extended to nine hours per day, a total of 27 hours and more than 75 acts across five stages: Mainstage, Bill's Factory, Desert Valley, Power Plant and Cloud Factory. Highlight stream Live from the City ran on TikTok and Facebook.
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2023
YouTube · TikTokNotable: Afrojack, The Chainsmokers, Hardwell, KygoStreamed seven hours per day from noon CET on July 22, 23 and 24 on YouTube and TikTok.
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2022
TikTok · Facebook · parookaville.comFirst year Parookaville streamed and the first time a major electronic music festival was broadcast live on TikTok. About six hours per day, 15 DJ sets. The stream drove 462 percent more tickets sold in the following month than the prior year.
How to watch
PlatformYouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, parookaville.com
AccessFree stream
Stages streamed5
Embeddablepartial
What sets it apart
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Parookaville is built as a fictional city called the City of Dreams, complete with a mayor named Bill Parooka, its own post office, chapel, jail and citizens rather than ordinary festivalgoers.
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The Mainstage stretches 190 metres wide and is redesigned from scratch every year, with Bill's Factory serving as a second arena that holds up to 20,000 people.
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The 2025 edition ran a cashless payment system across the grounds in partnership with ING and closed with an 800-drone show.
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Built on a former airport, the site combines a three-day festival with one of Germany's largest temporary camping cities.
Headliners
50 artists indexed across the lineup. Top 30 shown by 2026 touring rank.
🇳🇱 Maddix
🇧🇪 Charlotte de Witte
🇳🇱 Brennan Heart
🇳🇱 Armin van Buuren
🇺🇸 Fisher
🇳🇴 Da Tweekaz
🇦🇺 The Saints
🇬🇷 Argy
🇧🇪 Coone
🇮🇹 Agents Of Time
Malugi
Act of Rage
Outsiders
🇮🇹 Rooler
Rebelion
🇺🇸 Steve Aoki
🇳🇱 Ran-D
🇳🇱 HI-LO
🇳🇱 MISH
Sickmode
DIKKE BAAP
🇳🇱 Sound Rush
🇳🇱 Phuture Noize
🇺🇸 The Chainsmokers
Laura van Dam
Olive Anguz
🇬🇧 Darren Styles
🇳🇱 Dubvision
Sonny Fodera
Dimitri K
Hear the lineup
Maddix · Spotify
Charlotte de Witte · Spotify
Brennan Heart · Spotify
Armin van Buuren · Spotify
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Venue
The festival takes place at Airport Weeze in Germany. It typically hosts crowds in the 75,000+ range across 3 days.
History
Founded2015
Years running11
ParentNext Events GmbH
Signature moments
- 2025The 10 Years anniversary edition reached 225,000 attendees across three days, brought back the original 2015 Memory Stage, and closed with an 800-drone finale.
- 2022Parookaville became the first major electronic music festival to broadcast a live festival stream on TikTok, reaching 5.7 million combined viewers across Facebook and its website.
- 2015The first edition drew 50,000 people to Airport Weeze and established the City of Dreams concept with mayor Bill Parooka.