Event Ticketing Done Right
Janet Jackson, Snoop Dogg and Shania Twain are among the artists featured in this year’s $25 Concert Week promotion from Live Nation. The affordable tickets for more than 3,800 shows featuring 300 artists across North America go on general sale between May 10-16. A pre-sale for Verizon and Rakuten customers takes place today (May 9). …
Vivid Seats has raised its financial projections for the coming year after earnings more than doubled in the first three months of 2023. The ticket exchange platform, which is traded on the NYSE and NASDAQ, said marketplace gross order value (MGOV) was up 15% year-on-year to $855.5m during the three months to March 31. Vivid …
National Theatre Productions managing director Kash Bennett has been named as the next president of Society of London Theatre (SOLT). Bennett will serve as vice president until next year, when she will take over from current president, Eleanor Lloyd. Bennett has held her current role at National Theatre for seven years and been a board …
Tickets are on sale for the inaugural Olympic Esports Week, which is to take place in Singapore next month. The Suntec Centre will play host to the four-day event, which includes the Olympic Esports Finals, which features 10 events between June 23-25. The finals are the culmination of the Olympic Esports Series 2023, the global …
A petition to save the O2 Academy Brixton from permanent closure has reached 50,000 signatures. Musicians including The Chemical Brothers and Blur’s Graham Coxon are among those to have added their names to the list calling for the venue to be reopened after its licence was suspended in January following the death of two people …
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, …
Ticketmaster has avoided a potential $122m penalty after being cleared of patent infringement in a US court. A Texas federal jury found that Global eTicket Exchange failed to show that the Live Nation company infringed multiple patents which cover a system for purchasing and exchanging tickets for entertainment events. Bloomberg Law reports that Ticketmaster could …
Africa’s football federation has launched an invitation to tender for a ticketing services provider for next year’s Africa Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) is looking for a partner to run the ticketing operation for the 2023 AFCON, which will be played in early 2024. All final technical and …
The Cleveland Browns is to offer fans new VIP gameday experiences through an expanded partnership with Vivid Seats. The online ticket marketplace becomes the NFL team’s official fan experience partner, building on a relationship that dates back to 2015. Among the highlights of the expanded partnership, starting next season, Browns fans will have the chance …
Live Nation saw a record 19.5 million attend its events and revenues up by more than 70% during a strong start to 2023. In a trading update for the three months to March 31, 2023, Ticketmaster’s owner said revenue hit $3.1bn, which was up 73% year-on-year. Central to that growth was an 89% uptick in …