Spotify chief financial officer Paul Vogel has offered an insight into the early days of the streaming platform’s ticket selling efforts. At the recent Evercore ISI Technology Conference, Vogel discussed the revenue streams being explored by Spotify. The platform introduced a ticket platform in early August for select artists, testing the waters with selling tickets …
College games affected by outage from ticketing tech provider
Ticketing, fundraising and marketing solutions provider for college athletics, Paciolan, suffered an outage over the weekend, affecting a number of college football games in the US. The issue left many fans across the country unable to download digital tickets onto their smartphones for several hours. The outage also forced secondary marketplace StubHub to suspend sales …
DEAG acquires Classic Open Air event
Live entertainment company Deutsche Entertainment Aktiengesellschaft (DEAG) has acquired 85% of the shares in Berlin-based classical music festival, Classic Open Air at Gendarmenmarkt. DEAG has acquired the shares via its wholly owned subsidiary, DEAG Classics AG. Classic Open Air has been taking place since 1992 and has become a renowned classical music event under organisers …
Individual tickets for Rugby World Cup 2023 to go on sale
Rugby fans will have the opportunity to purchase tickets for individual matches at the Rugby World Cup 2023 from tomorrow (Tuesday). A pre-sale period of 24 hours will be reserved for members of the 2023 Family tomorrow, with the general public able to purchase tickets from Thursday, September 15. Tickets for all 48 matches in …
Free concerts at FIFA Fan Festival during Qatar World Cup
World football’s governing body FIFA has revealed that there will be a number of free concerts featuring international stars for its fan festival during this year’s World Cup. The World Cup is taking place in Qatar in November and December and the Al Bidda Park in central Doha is set to host a number of …
Secutix Americas begins hunt for new chief
Secutix Americas has started its global search for a new leader, which will be led by outgoing chief executive Eric Rozenberg and Switzerland-based parent company ELCA CEO, Cèdric Moret. Rozenberg joined the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform in January 2018 and has agreed to stay until his replacement is found, in order to ease the transition. Secutix …
Why FAQs are So Important to Ticket Sales and Event Success
Did you know that comprehensive FAQs are one of the 20 critical ticket sales page features every event website must have? Not only can publishing excellent answers to frequently asked questions on your ticket sales page save your team a lot of time, but doing so can also give people the trust and confidence they …
Formula 1 fans voice anger over British Grand Prix ticket pricing
Formula 1 fans have voiced their anger over tickets for next year’s British Grand Prix, after it was revealed that prices would increase based on demand. Silverstone organisers released information over ticket prices, and said that prices would automatically refresh every 90 seconds due to demand. Wow – @SilverstoneUK are now hiking prices for the …
Tix Ticketing partners with Artifax Software
Ticket software company Tix Ticketing has announced a partnership with fellow software company, Artifax Software. The two companies announced the partnership yesterday (Thursday), with customers told to look out for the upcoming integration. Tix Ticketing said in an update: “A good partnership and especially integrations that allow us to help our clients to be even …
Events called off following death of Queen Elizabeth II
A number of events including Prom 71, the Last Night of the Proms and the Mercury Music Prize ceremony have been cancelled following the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II yesterday (Thursday). It was announced yesterday that Queen Elizabeth II, the UK’s longest-serving monarch of 70 years, had died at the age of …