Thrillcall has been in the concert listings game for a few years now with a site that’s similar to the likes of Songkick, Bandsintown, and JamBase. But today, they’ve announced a new mobile app that will offer a twist on the concert listings game — exclusive ticket offers via mobile to live music fans in LA and SF. READ MORE
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AEG – the world’s second largest presenter of live music and entertainment events after Live Nation — has announced that they will include a lottery system in their new “Fair AXS” ticketing operation. The goal of the lottery is to help deal with the increasingly maddening problem of ticketing bots making it difficult for fans to get tickets during high-volume ticket onsales. TicketNews.com has all the info: READ MORE
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"Let's not sit here...Davina is a bitch."
Yesterday Ticketmaster and Facebook announced that fans are now able to “tag” their tickets to show their friends where they’re planning on sitting at the large, assigned-seating concerts, an obvious move to get those big arena concert tickets sold and keep it a bit more enticing for “fans” that want to buy their tickets close to their friends. Makes sense, I guess… >>>
Eventbrite just announced that they’ve raised another $50 million to continue on their path of offering event promoters choices in how they sell their tickets online. Here’s the news via NY Times…
Eventbrite, a ticketing start-up based in San Francisco, got its start by offering to help any event organizer peddle tickets — whether it be for a yoga class or an indie comedy show.
Now the company is looking to tackle ticketing for bigger events — and it is getting a large boost of liquid confidence from investors who think it stands a chance at stealing business from Ticketmaster, the industry giant.
On Wednesday, Eventbrite announced that it had raised $50 million in venture capital in a Series E round of financing. The influx of cash came from several firms and was led by Tiger Global. This round brings the amount of money Eventbrite has raised to a hefty $79.5 million
TechCrunch has a quite writeup of the announcement as well.
When I first heard the news today that Apple was unveiling a social network today called Ping, a new addition and feature set that’s part of iTunes 10, I was immediately wondering what partners the company was bringing on to support the tour dates part of their new Artist Pages. Among other things like showing favorite songs, recent status updates and samples of music, every artist in their database will have a “Follow” ability and a set of tour dates accompanying their profiles. All of this is going to be powered by the people that actually control most of the ticket market, Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
This was part of the press release that hit the wire soon after the new product was revealed during today’s Apple keynote… READ MORE
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Ticketmaster launched a new blog called Ticketology, and today’s first post details out a change in policy on how service fees will now be disclosed up-front when you’re purchasing tickets from the company.
We get it – you don’t like service fees. You don’t like them mostly because you don’t understand what the heck they are for. We’ll try to do a better job in this space over the coming months of helping you understand our business, and how our fees compare to others in the industry (both in ticketing and ecommerce in general). But the reality of the live entertainment business is that service fees have become an extension of the ticket price. Most of the parties in the live event value chain participate in these service fees either directly or indirectly – promoters, venues, teams, artists, and yes, ticketing companies – and service fee rebates are our largest annual expense at Ticketmaster.
They also announced that Live Nation venues will now honor a three-day return policy in advance enough of the show. This includes The Fillmore in SF, Irving Plaza in NYC, The Gorge in WA, and even Alpine Valley in WI. Go here for the full list of venues.
I’d hate to get my hopes up that this will put the company at the forefront of fan-driven decisions, but this is at least a step in the right direction.
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Billboard says the Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger has been approved by the DOJ and is basically a done deal. This is big.
I haven’t really been following the updates on the proposed Ticketmaster and Live Nation merger, but this latest article from the AP confirms that there’s still some movement:
Regulators in the United Kingdom and United States appear likely to impose conditions on the merger of concert promoter Live Nation Inc. and ticket-selling giant Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. now that British authorities came out against the deal yesterday.
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