Event Ticketing Done Right
BTS Permission to Dance on Stage: Seoul racked up a mighty $32.6m (£24m/€29m) across 3,711 cinemas in 75 worldwide theatrical markets. The K-pop band was playing in the South Korean capital for the first time in two years, and tickets were hard to come by. Entertainment company HYBE and Trafalgar Releasing, a business that brings …
The Wolfson Foundation and Theatres Trust have awarded eight theatres across the UK with grants totalling £120,000 ($156,000/€143,000) through the Theatre Improvement Scheme. Wolfson is a London-based independent grant-making charity and Theatres Trust is an organisation that aims to protect theatre buildings for future generations. The grants have been awarded in a bid for a …
AEG, operator of The O2 in London, has reiterated its opposition to the MSG Sphere arena project in the English capital ahead of a planning committee meeting next week. MSG Entertainment, which operates the iconic Madison Square Garden arena in New York, is planning on building a new venue in London. A planning application for …
Morocco-based digital ticketing platform Guichet.com has raised $309,000 (£237,000/€281,000) in equity financing. The financing was raised from the 212 Founders programme through CDG Invest, which is the investment arm of Moroccan investment bank, CDG Capital. Guichet.com was founded in 2019 by Moulnakhla Ahmed Tawfik and allows partners to sell and monitor ticketing in real time. The platform is …
Live Nation has announced a new 1,800-capacity live music venue in Adelaide, which will also include a separate nightclub and restaurant. The live entertainment company has worked alongside promoter Secret Sounds, promoter Five Four Entertainment and the team behind Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall and The Triffid venues to launch Hindley Street Music Hall. Adelaide’s new …
London is set for a new open-air venue that will hold one-off events and festivals. Event management company Broadwick Live has unveiled the new venue, Dockyards, which is a 400,000-square-foot space on the bank of the River Thames. Dockyards will be based right next to London City Airport and is due to run events all …
A report has revealed how 32% of the live music industry’s growth over the next three years will originate in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Technavio, a market research company based in London, released a report that details how the live music market is set to grow by $2.83bn (£2.16bn/€2.58bn) by 2025, noting that Japan, Australia …
League of Ireland Premier League Division club Shamrock Rovers has increased its season ticket sales by 37% for the 2022 season. Shamrock, which plays its home games at Tallaght Stadium in Dublin, wanted to bring fans back in big numbers following the pandemic and began working with Fulltime Analytics, a Dublin-based data-driven sports marketing technology …
More than 130 organisations and representatives from across Europe’s live performance sector have signed an open letter calling for the European Union (EU) to introduce tougher laws on online ticket scalping. The EU is currently in the midst of negotiating rules for a Digital Services Act, a regulation that has been designed to manage the …
Serpentine Galleries has selected and implemented TixTrack’s mobile-first Ticketure timed-entry system, becoming the first UK high-profile visitor attraction to partner with the US-based company. Serpentine is based in Kensington Gardens in Hyde Park, London and manufactured a soft launch of the Ticketure system for its KAWS exhibition: New Fiction in December . TixTrack has partnered with major …