Leading North American live entertainment and ticketing groups including NIVA, APAP, See Tickets and Dice have joined forces as Fix The Tix to advocate for more equitable concert ticketing. Among the 19 founding members are major trade groups and companies that represent venues, promoters, agents, managers, the performing arts, artist and songwriter groups, recorded music, …
Dresden’s Semper Opera House utilises CTS Eventim in-house ticketing system
CTS Eventim has been revealed as the official ticketing partner of Dresden’s Semper Opera House, with the partnership starting this season. The state opera will utilise the Eventim.Inhouse ticketing system, with the new ticketing and booking system available to the opera’s international audience. Eventim.Inhouse offers visitors a number of benefits in addition to the self-service …
Fortuna calls on sponsors to support free fan entry to all home games
German football club Fortuna Düsseldorf has announced plans to offer fans free entry to selected games at the 54,600-capacity Merkur Spielarena next season as part of an innovative initiative that could be rolled out to cover all home fixtures in the future. The club, which competes in the second-tier 2.Bundesliga, said it wants to allow …
Tottenham players to refund fans after Newcastle thrashing
Tottenham Hotspur’s footballers have pledged to refund ticket-holders who watched the club capitulate to a 6-1 loss at English Premier League rival Newcastle United on Sunday. Tottenham conceded five goals in the first 21 minutes of the game as the team’s hopes of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League through a top-four finish in the …
NITO backed by agents, managers and artists to tackle unfair concert ticketing
The National Independent Talent Organisation (NITO) has teamed up with independent agents, managers and artists to tackle unfair concert ticketing in the US. NITO was formed during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, and worked alongside the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) and other stakeholders to help secure Shuttered Venue Operating Grants for venues, …
SeatGeek files confidential IPO paperwork
SeatGeek’s long-anticipated flotation has moved a big step closer after confidential initial public offering (IPO) paperwork was filed with regulators in the United States. TheTicketingBusiness.com understands that the documents were filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this month. The development comes nearly a year after the ticketing marketplace scrapped a plan to go …
AXS Europe triumphs at TheTicketingBusiness Awards 2023
AXS Europe was named the Ticketing Business of the Year tonight (Wednesday) as the industry’s most impactful decision-makers and enterprises were unveiled at TheTicketingBusiness Awards 2023 at Emirates Old Trafford in Manchester, UK. Winners from the UK, USA, Germany, Australia and the Netherlands scooped accolades, with Tim Chambers, Managing Director of the TJChambers consultancy, handed the Outstanding …
Latin music revenues exceed $1bn in US in 2022
Latin music revenues exceeded $1bn (£800m/€900m) in the US last year, according to The Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) end-of-year Latin music report for 2022. Revenues improved from $881m in 2021 to $1.1bn in 2022, with Latin music’s overall share of the music market growing from 5.9% to 6.9%. The success of Bad Bunny …
AEG teams up with ParkHub
Sports and live entertainment venue owner and operator AEG has struck a strategic partnership with ParkHub, the parking service provider. Under the multi-year agreement that designates ParkHub as the official parking technology partner of a trio of AEG venues, individuals who purchase event tickets via the AXS platform will be able to pre-purchase parking ahead …
Festival attendees file Live Nation lawsuit following crowd surge
A lawsuit has been filed in Los Angeles claiming that Live Nation “failed to take basic, reasonable steps” to prevent injuries resulting from a stampede during the Lovers & Friends Music Festival in Las Vegas last May. The complaint from Aaliyah Aguilar, Carla Thomas and James Thomas claimed that the plaintiffs “screamed” for help from …