Event Ticketing Done Right
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 …
Internet search engines have been criticised for helping to facilitate unauthorised ticket resales by Sam Shemtob, director of the Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing (FEAT). Speaking at the Primavera Pro music conference in Barcelona, Shemtob slammed search engines for hosting advertisements from unauthorised resellers. “Across Europe, countries including Belgium, France, Ireland and others have outlawed …
TEG’s Ticketek has sealed a five-year agreement with Melbourne Racing Club (MRC), host of the Caulfield Cup Carnival. The deal was announced to coincide with the release of tickets on general sale for the 2023 edition of the carnival, which will span race days on October 14, 18 and 21, as well as November 18 …
Melbourne is set to welcome a new city-wide festival during the winter months in Australia, with 17 days of art, technology and music. Now or Never will take over the Royal Exhibition Building and will feature performances from local artists and international headliners. The Royal Exhibition Building has been unveiled as one of the festival’s …
Magic, a wallet-as-a-service (WaaS) provider, has raised $52m (£42m/€49m) in a strategic funding round led by PayPal Ventures, with participation from Cherubic, Synchrony, KX, Northzone, and Volt Capital. The latest round brings the total raised to over $80m. Magic works with companies that are looking for a way to incorporate Web3 into their offerings. Magic …
British band Coldplay have set new records in Barcelona with their four-night string of performances at Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys. Coldplay became the first band to perform four dates in a stadium in Spain, and also set an attendance record according to AP Musicales. The band is currently travelling as part of their Music Of …
Sporting events promotions company Matchroom Boxing has announced an extension to its global ticketing deal with Stage Front. Matchroom Boxing and Stage Front first struck a deal in July 2022 to drive ticketing, hospitality and experience sales. The partnership will now also focus on incorporating Web3 technologies and entering the metaverse with NFTs (non-fungible tokens). …
The FIFA Women’s World Cup Australia and New Zealand 2023 has sold over 850,000 tickets for the tournament, which is set to kick off next month. With less than 50 days to go until the opening match, organisers believe they are well on their way to selling one million tickets. A FIFA spokesperson told BBC …
Australian ticketing company Oztix has acquired small-events-focussed agency Local Tickets. Through the deal, Local Tickets, which specialises in events across Australia, will rebrand as LocalTix effective immediately. All LocalTix’s existing clients will automatically have access to an expanded suite of Oztix product features as part of the businesses coming together. Additionally, Oztix events will now …
The man tasked with ticketing this year’s Eurovision Song Contest in Liverpool has revealed some of the milestones achieved during the continent’s biggest annual televised live music show. Billy Partridge was appointed by the BBC to the role of production coordinator, Eurovision Song Contest 2023 on a nine-week freelance contract that lasted from March to …