Boutique festivals: how to stay true to your roots without getting squashed

Both major and boutique festivals see themselves confronted with the same future challenges; rising productions costs, acts are getting more expensive, investments in becoming more sustainable, lack of qualified staff, attracting a new young audience while ticket prices are getting up, becoming more diverse. How do the smaller boutique festivals cope with these challenges and how do they navigate between the powers of the major events around Europe? What elements are crucial when it comes to the right to exist on the one hand and stay loyal to the true identity on which the festival originally was based on? Taking into consideration that the boutique festivals also function as the perfect place for upcoming acts to prepare for bigger stages at major festivals in the next stages of their career.