The UK’s Parklife festival has announced a new batch of tickets are to be made available following an anti-tout scheme and failed payment plans. The Manchester event, which is set to attract 82,000 fans each day at Heaton Park next month, will begin selling the new daily and weekend general admission and VIP tickets from …
Onsite at Etihad Arena: Arriving on the scene
Built to attract sports and entertainment tourists to Abu Dhabi, Yas Island’s Etihad Arena delivered its first ‘capacity’ event this weekend, hosting Maroon 5’s mid-Middle East tour between Cairo and Tel-Aviv. “It was a great feeling to finally see this place rocking,” says an ebullient arena GM Brint Jackson (pictured) on a venue showaround the …
AFL celebrates one million club memberships
The Australian Football League has celebrated surpassing one million AFL club members this year, almost three weeks faster than in 2021. A total of 1,043,604 members signed up to support their favourite club in 2022, with one in 25 Australians being AFL club members. The League has reached the one million membership figure some 20 …
New Insights Alliance research project aims to understand attitudes around the climate crisis
The Insights Alliance has recently launched its sector-wide audience research project, Act Green, which has been designed to help build an idea of attitudes towards the climate crisis. The research project will gain an understanding of cultural audiences’ attitudes and their perception of the role of cultural organisations and their audiences in tackling issues surrounding …
Tech Stack: Cryptocurrency, data-driven sales and more…
Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries… Cryptocurrency and ticketing Profitable Developments Inc has formed CryptoConecerts Inc, a crypto-optimised event solution for ticketing, NFT (non-fungible tokens) integrations and more for in-person and virtual events in the metaverse. CryptoConcerts is expected to launch in late 2022 with a ticketing platform that …
People: Stadium, All Things Live and more…
We round up the latest movements from the ticketing sector and associated industries… Event management specialist Stadium has announced a new managing director in Carl Taylor (pictured left), to accelerate the firm’s expansion across the UK. The company operates globally and is headquartered in Coventry in the UK, and provides traffic management, event services and …
The SKIDATA accreditation solution for enhanced safety in stadiums
SKIDATA, the world market leader in access and revenue management, takes us through its range of solutions that ensure visitor and employee management is as it should be: smart – easy – secure… The SMART System by SKIDATA and mtms Solutions provides an intelligent solution for seamless access and accreditation control via smartphone Ensuring proper …
Congressman further calls for Live Nation action
Democratic Congressman Bill Pascrell has once again called for concert promoter and entertainment giant Live Nation to be broken up. Pascrell has said the reasoning behind this call includes Live Nation’s domination of the industry and how this helped the recent attack on comedian Dave Chappelle while he was performing and November’s Astroworld tragedy. Chappelle …
‘Fans eager to attend live events’ says Vivid Seats chief executive Chia
Vivid Seats chief executive Stan Chia believes that “fans are eager to attend live events” as the online ticketing marketplace posted a record-setting first quarter. In the first quarter of 2022, Vivid Seats posted $130.8m (£105m/€123m) in revenue, up 442% from $24.1m in the same period the year prior. In the three months leading up …
Study finds music fans more likely to care about the environment
A University of Glasgow-led study has found that music fans are more likely to care about climate change than non-music fans. The new report, called Turn Up the Volume, expands on YouGov UK polling of 2,184 adults from across the UK. The study also found that music fans expect the music industry to do more …