Event Ticketing Done Right
Justin Bieber has cancelled the remaining dates of his Justice World Tour. Ticketing platforms such as Ticketmaster show the dates as cancelled, though the Canadian singer has yet to comment on the cancellations. According to the Ticketmaster website, all shows have been cancelled which included dates in Manchester and Paris this month. Further dates in …
Major League Soccer (MLS) has announced a multi-year agreement with Ticketmaster to become the league’s official ticketing partner. Ticketmaster has replaced SeatGeek, which signed a multi-year deal with MLS in 2016. Each club in the MLS typically sells its own tickets under individual partnership agreements, though Ticketmaster currently holds partnerships with 17 of the 29 …
Ex-baseball player Alex Rodriguez and business partner Marc Lore have raised $20m (£17m/€18m) in a recent funding round for a new ticketing and fan experience business. The funding round for start-up Jump was led by Forerunner Ventures and joined by Courtside Ventures, Will Ventures and Marty Ventures. We’re leading the $20M round for JUMP, an …
Bonnetts Energy Box Office has introduced a new ticketing system from Paciolan. The box office is the exclusive ticketing provider for events held at the 2,960-seat multi-purpose Bonnetts Energy Centre arena, The Bowes concert venue, the Douglas J. Cardinal Performing Arts Centre, and bar and venue Better than Fred’s in Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada. The …
The UK music industry has called on UK Business and Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch to help block plans for a major hike in US visa costs. It was revealed recently that the US Department of Homeland Security was considering an increase in visa costs by more than 250%. In a letter signed by organisations from …
Blockchain-based ticketing solutions provider NFT-TiX has partnered with United Music Events, and has secured naming rights for the VIP area at the 2023 Hardmission and Techmission festivals in Prague. The VIP area at the events will be known as the NFT-TiX VIP Lounge and is located opposite the main stage. Emil Ljesnjanin, chief executive of …
Eurovision Song Contest fans will soon be able to snap up tickets for the nine shows that make up the competition. Tickets will go on sale on Tuesday March 7 at 12:00 GMT (13:00 CET). The UK is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of last year’s winners Ukraine, with 160 million people set …
Consumer advocates have released a set of principles that they believe can improve the live events ticketing market in the US. Consumer Federation of America, Fan Freedom, National Consumers League, Protect Ticket Rights and Sports Fans Coalition, have released a set of principles called ‘The Ticket Buyer Bill of Rights’. The ‘Bill of Rights’ is …
Seat Unique has been named the official hospitality and premium ticketing platform for English League One football club, Fleetwood Town. Starting with this season, the four-year deal will see Seat Unique power the club’s online premium ticket and hospitality sales for all home games at Highbury Stadium. Sam Heaney, commercial manager at Fleetwood Town, said: …
Ticketing service provider Eventbrite has said that it will lay off around 8% of the company’s workforce to cut costs. As reported by Reuters, Eventbrite is also planning to relocate about 30% of the remaining roles, including moving development roles to Spain and India from Argentina and the US. The company will also relocate nearly …