Primary and secondary ticket marketplace, TicketSmarter, has extended its partnerships with Spartan Race and the Professional Fighters League (PFL). The Digital Ally subsidiary will continue to be the official ticketing partner for the Spartan Race and PFL. Spartan Race is an obstacle course race series with more than 300 events and over seven million participants, …
Major events bring sell-outs and tourism highs for Adelaide
Adelaide (pictured) is set to celebrate a busy April with tickets to major events selling out and hotel bookings hitting new highs. The Australian city is set to welcome capacity crowds for the opening match of the inaugural Australian Football League (AFL) Gather Round, with the number of sold-out matches reaching four out of nine. …
Ed Sheeran breaks Australian concert record
Ed Sheeran has broken an Australian concert record, with more than 107,000 tickets sold for his Friday show at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). The MCG concert is being produced by Frontier Touring and is part of the English singer’s ‘The Mathematics Tour’. Sheeran is also set to play the MCG on Thursday and has …
NTIA report shows businesses teetering on the edge in cost-of-living crisis
A report from the Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has shown that despite glimpses of recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis could deliver the final blow for some night time businesses. In the decade leading up to the onset of the pandemic in 2020, the UK’s night time cultural economy (NTCE) showed steady …
NTIA report demonstrates importance of electronic music in the UK
The Night Time Industries Association (NTIA) has presented its first UK Electronic Music Industry Report, which has demonstrated the economic, community and cultural value of the electronic music industry, and the genre’s interwoven presence in live concerts, events, venues and festivals. Published in collaboration with Audience Strategies, the report showcased how electronic music has had …
Sky Stadium and Ticketek celebrate Ed Sheeran success
Sky Stadium (pictured), a multi-purpose sport and entertainment venue in Wellington, is celebrating hosting its biggest ever crowd for a live performance, with last week’s Ed Sheeran concert also becoming the first stadium event in New Zealand to be ticketed 100% in-app. In-app ticketing meant that attendees could rely on a fully digital, app-based ticketing …
Accor Stadium to welcome 400,000 people
Sydney’s Accor Stadium has predicted that 400,000 people will attend its upcoming major headline events. More than 180,000 people are expected to attend two Ed Sheeran concerts on February 24 and 25 alone. Early February also saw the stadium hold two concerts from band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with support from rapper Post Malone. British …
President Biden calls for limits on concert and sporting ticket fees
US President Joe Biden has called on Ticketmaster and other companies to lower service fees which are often added to tickets for concerts or sporting events. The President met with the Competition Council yesterday (Wednesday) and promoted his ‘Junk Fee Prevention Act’. This Act would also include restrictions on early cancellation charges imposed by TV, …
Victorian Government to provide grants for small and medium-sized events
The Victorian Government is set to provide grants for small and medium-sized event organisers across Greater Melbourne to help with running events. The A$3m (£1.7m/€1.9m/ $2.1m) Small and Medium Event Programme has been designed to attract more visitors to local events, support more job opportunities and provide a boost to local businesses. This new scheme …
Green survey finds events are more concerned about overall carbon footprint
Vision: 2025’s annual Industry Green Survey has found that local authorities in the UK are more interested in the sustainability efforts of an event, and that festivals and shows are now more concerned about their overall carbon footprint. Despite these concerns however, only 24% of the survey respondents have a net zero strategy in place, …