According to the university professor, researcher, author and coordinator of several studies on song festivals, Eurovision in Portugal is expected to be organised "creatively, based on a budget lower than the average of the last five years, breaking the trend for high costs, so that in the future, everyone may be able to host," the event.

The researcher at Lusófona University, with a doctorate and postdoctoral degree in Urbanism and Tourism, who in the last two years has done a study on how Lisbon should prepare to receive the contest, noted that the 2012 edition in Baku, Azerbaijan, had one with the highest budgest, with costs "over €55 million," including construction of "a new show arena."

Since then costs have dropped, said the researcher, giving the example of €42.4 million spent in Copenhagen in 2014, €38.5 million invested in Vienna in 2015, the €30 million invested in Kiev this year, and €14 million spent in Stockholm in 2016, the lowest figure in the last five years.

Therefore the average cost of organising the ESC in these years is around €25 million, which is the amount that Portugal can use as a benchmark or even lower, by being "minimalist but imaginative" and making use of "partnerships." This will make it possible to organise the event with a budget that Mangorrinha believes can be" recovered in the short, medium and long term," because, "the investment also includes the 'eurovision' network and companies, not only RTP and the city council."