The festival was immediately renewed for a third year. However, in March 2000 the festival returned to South Beach's Collins Park and was met with even more success. However, Faibisch and Omes still saw a financial loss of between $10,000 to $20,000 during the festival's inaugural year. The first Ultra Beach Music Festival, which was held at Collins Park in Miami Beach proved popular, with an estimated ten thousand concertgoers in attendance. Artists at Ultra's first festival included Paul van Dyk, Rabbit in the Moon, Josh Wink, and DJ Baby Anne. The first festival was held as a one-day event on March 13, 1999. Ultra Music Festival was inaugurated and produced in 1999 by business partners Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes. Īlongside the flagship event in Miami, Ultra has spawned a larger series of international franchises under the blanket branding Ultra Worldwide, which have included locations such as South Africa, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, and others. However, the two entities did announce a 'global alliance' in August 2012, which would allow them to collaborate on marketing and cross-promotion. Īlthough they share names, Ultra Music Festival was not directly tied to Ultra Records, an electronic music record label. The festival is held alongside the Winter Music Conference-an event focusing on the electronic music industry (which was acquired by Ultra outright in 2018), and Miami Music Week-a larger program of electronic music concerts and parties held across the region, with both events usually leading into Ultra. It has been suspended since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The most recent edition was held in 2019. The city of Miami has estimated that since 2012, Ultra has 'generated approximately $995 million of economic impact', with $168 million in 2018 alone. In 2014, the festival returned to its original single-weekend format, selling out pre-sale tickets in under five minutes. In 2013, the festival took place across two consecutive weekends to celebrate its 15th anniversary, with a combined attendance of 330,000 people. In 2012, it had a record attendance, of 155,000 people. Since 2011, Ultra has taken place across three days (Friday through Sunday) during the month of March. It was a two-day festival from 1998 to 2006. It was first held on Miami Beach, but besides a tenure at Bicentennial Park, and briefly being held at Virginia Key in 2019, it has primarily been held at Bayfront Park in downtown Miami. The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes and is named after the Ultra Music label. Ultra Music Festival ( UMF) is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in Miami, Florida, United States.

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