Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries… HUMBL’s AI chatbot HUMBL, which operates the HUMBL Tickets platform, has launched its new HeyBLUE! artificial intelligence chatbot. HUMBL users can now perform a variety of tasks, including chatbot interactions, document generation, text generation, text summarisation, language translation, question answering and more. Brentford …
Festival organisers slam Government stance on drug testing
The UK Home Office’s withdrawal of support for drug safety testing at festivals has been labelled “dangerously irresponsible”. Sacha Lord, the co-founder of Parklife festival, and Melvin Benn, the managing director of Festival Republic, are among those to speak out after Home Office officials blocked testing organisation The Loop from carrying out its on-site work …
Covid led to loss of 1 in 6 UK festivals, report shows
One in six UK festivals came to an end during and in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, new data from the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) suggests. A study carried out by AIF in the first half of 2023 shows there were 600 music festivals held in the UK in 2019, but only 482 …
LaLiga clubs reportedly reach agreement over away ticket price cap
Spanish LaLiga football clubs have reached an agreement that will see a minimum of 300 tickets designated for away fans cost a maximum price of €25 (£21/$26), according to reports. Forbes has reported that 11 clubs have agreed to the ticketing deal, which follows a similar policy to the English Premier League, where tickets for …
Burnley brings in Seat Unique as premium ticket partner
Burnley Football Club has announced Seat Unique as its official online hospitality and premium ticket partner. Following the Clarets’ promotion to the Premier League, Seat Unique will exclusively power the hospitality and premium experience offering at Turf Moor over the next three years. Burnley FC have long been committed to hosting exceptional premium matchday experiences …
Amsterdam Dance Event’s ticketing partnership boost
Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is aiming to upgrade delegates’ ticketing experience after selecting Eventix as its partner for the ADE Pro Conference. The partnership will cover the prestigious annual electronic music conference, which attracts thousands of electronic music professionals that gather in Amsterdam every October. The conference features more than 150 events and many networking …
BookMyShow to support inaugural Indian MotoGP event
BookMyShow has been unveiled as the official ticketing platform for India’s inaugural MotoGP motorcycle-racing event later this year. The platform is inviting fans to register their interest in tickets ahead of the MotoGP Bharat event over the weekend of September 22-24 at the Buddh International Circuit in Greater Noida. Initial reports suggest that general admission …
Manchester Mayor urges unions to call off strikes over Parklife weekend
Andy Burnham, the Mayor of Manchester, has called for planned industrial action by tram drivers over the weekend of the Parklife music festival to be postponed. Burnham offered to meet union bosses – who are demanding more than the current 5% pay rise on the table from Manchester Metrolink – if they agreed to call …
Peaky Blinders run provides further evidence of immersive theatre growth
Peaky Blinders: The Rise, an immersive theatre production, has now officially closed after more than 300 shows in Camden, London. Delivered by Caryn Mandabach Productions and Immersive Everywhere, which works with world-famous titles to create live theatrical experiences, the show attracted some 45,000 guests over its run. Rich Major, group director of sales and marketing …
More FIFA Women’s World Cup tickets released as resale platform launched
Nearly 250,000 additional tickets have been put on general sale ahead of this year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. Football’s global governing body FIFA said that the new ticketing inventory would go on sale on Tuesday, with seats available across all 64 matches. FIFA said that it had “reviewed the available …