Event Ticketing Done Right
The Australian Football League (AFL) has continued its dedication to making the sport accessible by putting a price freeze on general admission tickets for all matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and Marvel Stadium across the 2023 season. The AFL has frozen prices for the Toyota AFL Premiership four the last four years, across …
Audience Rewards, a loyalty programme for theatres on Broadway, has celebrated $1bn (£800m/€900m) worth of ticket sales. The scheme was founded in 2008 by theatre powerhouses the Nederlander Organization, Shubert Organization and Jujamcyn, as well as the Independent Presenters Network and Broadway Across America. Audience Rewards allows theatre fans to purchase tickets and earn ‘ShowPoints’ …
Coventry Building Society Arena welcomed a record crowd for a sporting event yesterday (Sunday), with 32,128 spectators watching England Women take on Italy. The match was part of a double-header for the 2023 Arnold Clark Cup, with Belgium facing South Korea in the second fixture. Sunday’s attendance beat the previous record figure of 32,019 for …
The Rose Theatre in Edinburgh, which is currently owned and operated by Danish ballet dancer and choreographer Peter Schaufuss, has been put up for sale with a price tag of £3m (€3.4m/$3.6m). The theatre has been used as a venue during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and has also hosted shows from entertainment production companies Golden …
Premium marketplace Seat Unique has secured its first-ever golf agreement with DP World Tour and has also renewed its partnership with Yorkshire County Cricket Club. Golf fans are now able to purchase official premium experience packages for the BMW PGA Championship, the Genesis Scottish Open and the Betfred British Masters through Seat Unique’s online platform. …
Roughly 90% of event tickets sold through resale platform Viagogo in New Zealand were being sold by scalpers, according to reports from the High Court in Auckland. The platform is currently embroiled in a month-long civil trial in New Zealand, which began on Wednesday, as part of its long-standing battle with the country’s market watchdog. …
Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs as they are more commonly known, and blockchain technology have certainly become a topic for conversation over the last few years. With the idea in the making since 2019, Emil Ljesnjanin founded marketplace NFT-TiX in 2021 and launched the company in July 2022 at Exit Festival, taking advantage of the technology’s …
Dreamland Margate (pictured), a family-focused attraction and entertainment centre on England’s southeast coast, has announced a new deal with AXS. The multi-year partnership will see the ticketing company continue to provide its services for all events across the attraction complex. Dreamland Margate reopened in 2015 and expanded in 2017, and in addition to the amusement …
Creative Scotland has launched two new funds, supported by the National Lottery, as part of its efforts to reshape its funding approach. The two funds are the refreshed National Lottery Open Fund for Organisations and the new time-limited National Lottery Extended Programme Fund. Creative Scotland said that these funds have been designed for organisations that …
Customer engagement and ticketing platform CM.com has partnered with Ibiza club Amnesia, and TixBox, which is the ticketing partner for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) entertainment company Alchemy Project. The multi-year partnership with Amnesia was launched last month, and CM.com will act as the club’s primary online ticketing partner. It will also provide Amnesia …