Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries… Spotify adds new live concert tools Spotify has introduced new tools to help artists on the streaming service build an audience and grow. The music giant used its Stream On event to showcase a suite of tools to help artists find fans who …
2022 in review – August
Following the Lionesses’ victory in the Women’s UEFA Euro 2022, demand for women’s football tickets rocketed. England Women secured the win over Germany at Wembley Stadium in front of a record crowd of 87,192. This trend would continue throughout the year. Troubles continued for events start-up Pollen, with employees still waiting for payment in August …
Spotify offers small insight into direct ticket selling test
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 …
Spotify tests selling concert tickets directly to fans
Music streaming platform Spotify is testing the water with selling tickets directly to fans rather than linking through to external ticketing operators. According to news site Musically, Spotify kicked off the tests yesterday (Wednesday) with a small number of artists. Pre-sale tickets were made available to fans through the Spotify app and the freshly launched Spotify …
NFTs, ticketing solutions and streaming
Web3 and ticketing solution provider Revuto is offering lifetime digital subscriptions for entertainment streaming platform Netflix and music streaming platform Spotify, via a non-fungible token (NFT) solution. Revuto will offer the subscriptions via its Revulution NFT and a total of 10,000 users will be able to secure the unique subscription model. Dino Ivankovic, head of …
Tech Stack: Shift4, events in the Metaverse and more…
Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries… Payment processing The National Football League (NFL)’s Arizona Cardinals has announced integrated payments and commerce technology provider, Shift4, as its payment processing partner. Shift4 will process payments for all Cardinals ticketing transactions at State Farm Stadium, including the Super Bowl LVII in February …
Spotify introduces new live events discovery feature
Spotify has introduced a new Live Events Feed, which will replace the music streaming platform’s Concert Hub feature. Music fans will be able to see updates from their favourite bands, artists and creators on upcoming live events. The Live Events Feed will enable fans to discover live events near them and will be personalised to …
Tech Stack: Digital hubs, payment and more…
Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries… Streaming and selling Music streaming platform Spotify has tested out a new feature where artists can promote NFTs (non-fungible tokens) alongside merchandise and tickets on their Spotify profiles. Artists are already able to promote merchandise and tickets, but Steve Aoki and The Wombats …
Music Venue Trust calls on Spotify to support grassroots music venues
Music Venue Trust (MVT), a UK charity that aims to protect and improve UK grassroots music venues, has called on music streaming giant Spotify to support smaller venues. Following Spotify’s $310m (£236m/€281m) deal with Spanish LaLiga side FC Barcelona that includes naming rights for its stadium, Camp Nou, and shirt sponsorship, the charity called out …