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Tegan & Sara Declare War on Secondary Ticketing Sites — By Selling the Seats Themselves and Donating the Money to Charity

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October 2, 2019
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Photo Credit: Justin Higuchi / CC by 2.0 Tegan & Sara experimented with selling empty seats at a 'sold out' event on a pay-what-you-want basis. The duo announced the experiment as a way to combat ticket ... Read More...

The Black Keys Refuse to Apologize to Hundreds of Fans Who Bought Tickets and Couldn’t Get Into Their Tour-Opening Show

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September 23, 2019
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The Black Keys punished hundreds of fans who purchased tickets from secondary ticketing sites to their opening show in LA. The scene at LA's Wiltern Theatre last Thursday was one of chaos mixed with anger an... Read More...

AEG Acquires 100% Ownership Over AXS Tickets

Marsha Silva
September 19, 2019
AEG has moved from stakeholder to 100% owner of AXS Tickets. The deal comes after fellow co-owners of AXS — Rockbridge Growth Equity and TPG Capital — negotiated the sell-off to AEG, which previously owned 3... Read More...
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September 2, 2019
Kilimanjaro Live has directly apologized to Ed Sheeran fans over complaints about 'ethical' ticket resells. What started as an 'ethical' effort quickly went sour — with some fans holding a very expensive bag... Read More...
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August 28, 2019
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Two Democratic U.S. Senators are asking the Department of Justice's (DOJ) antitrust division to investigate online ticket markets, which they insist "are not working for American consumers." The two specific... Read More...

Festicket Acquires Event Genius and Ticket Arena

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Festicket has acquired cashless point-of-sale platform Event Genius. The sale includes Event Genius' consumer-facing brand, Ticket Arena. The terms for the deal weren't disclosed in the acquisition announc... Read More...

Dutch Regulators Force Ticketmaster to Refund Fees on Canceled Events

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Ticketmaster Netherlands has announced that it has adopted a new policy that will provide refunds on ticket service fees to events that were postponed or canceled. They are the first ticket agency in the cou... Read More...

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No-fee ticketing company TickPick was founded back in 2011, but received no institutional funding — until now. Guess it's never too late to attract insane funding levels and become a unicorn.  After eight ye... Read More...

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CTS Eventim, a leading provider of ticketing services, has acquired a 48% stake in France Billet. France Billet is a popular and growing distributor of tickets for events held in France.  The majority of Fra... Read More...
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July 19, 2019
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Live Nation president of U.S. concerts Bob Roux arranged for the direct delivery of nearly 90,000 Metallica tickets to aftermarket scalper sites, a move that artificially spiked ticket prices for fans. Live ... Read More...

Google Outright Bans Viagogo from Advertising In Search Results

Ashley King
July 17, 2019
Google has suspended ticket resale company Viagogo from paid advertising in search results. The ban is global and immediate, which could severely impact the company's ability to function. Viagogo has been... Read More...
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