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NY Knicks struggle to sell expensive tickets

By Patrick Dunne

As a revamped team playing in a renovated Madison Square Garden, theNew York Knicks were poised to take over the city this season.

Unfortunately, it hasn't quite worked out that way.

Ticket resellers spar with country singer Eric Church

By Arragon Perrone

Country singer Eric Church has strong words for ticket resellers, accusing brokers of profiting from fans' losses. According to Church, resellers "join our fan club, infiltrate our system, take advantage of our system, and buy up all these tickets." Church says these practices result in few available seats being left and the purchased tickets being sold at much higher prices. "We've been trying to play that game of keeping their access away on the back half of the tour, and it's still a challenge," Church told Billboard.biz. "They are just some slimy sons of [expletive]," he added.

In response to that statement, Don Vaccaro, the CEO of TicketNetwork, says he sees no difference between Church's actions and that of resellers. "It's apparent that Eric Church is holding the best tickets to sell at $199 each, depriving his fans [by] buying them at the face value of $40. It's very deceptive to the average concert goer," said Vaccaro.

Big names hit the road for big tours in '12

By Kyle Kernan

Van Halen, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, Lady Gaga, and Radiohead are promising to be the five biggest concert tours of 2012.

As TicketNews previously reported, tickets for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's "Wrecking Ball" tour went on sale during the last week in January. The was of course planned to support Springsteen's newest album, "Wrecking Ball," which will be released on March 6.

Cloud-based Vendini continues to develop mobile market

By Kristina LaFountain

Headquartered in San Francisco, Vendini is the fastest growing cloud-based ticketing company in the industry. It has recently developed mobile ticketing options that help simplify the buying process while cutting costs for entertainment venues.

Vendini, which also has satellite offices in Beverly Hills, Chicago and Boston, provides ticketing, marketing and fundraising solutions to organizations of every size. All customers that sign up with Vendini are given access to every tool and feature the company offers at a single price point.

Ticketmaster melt-down frustrates Bruce Springsteen fans

By Jean Henegan

Bruce Springsteen fans are in an uproar after tickets for his upcoming tour disappeared in a matter of minutes, leaving many fans facing the prospect of paying as much as 20 times face value to snag tickets to the concerts.

While the prospect of a sold-out concert is hardly a new situation, in the case of Springsteen's upcoming "Wrecking Ball" tour, it appears that the instant sell-out wasn't a simple case of too many fans trying to buy too few tickets. Rather, it appears that an influx of computer "bots" jammed Ticketmaster with purchases, causing a significant number of fans to be locked out of the system.

St. Louis Rams resume ticket sales for London game

By Patrick Dunne

The on-again, off-again ticket sales for the St. Louis Rams' game against the New England Patriots next season in London resumed again this past Monday, February 6, 2012, the NFL said.

Ticket sales had been suspended four days earlier after officials from the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission said the Rams' lease requires that all Rams home games be played at the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis.

Super Bowl tickets rule this week's Top Events rankings

By Kelly McWilliams

In the lead up to this weekend's Super Bowl XLVI, tickets for the big game took over the top spot in TicketNews' exclusive events rankings for the week ending Sunday, February 5.

The championship game, which also took Lucas Oil Stadium to the top of TicketNews' venues rankings for a second week, was a rematch between the Patriots and their Super Bowl XLII foes, the New York Giants. On February 5, the Giants repeated their win of four years ago behind a catch by wide receiver Mario Manningham which set up a fourth quarter comeback for Big Blue, ending the game in a 21-17 win.

AEG to turn ticket buying into lottery system

By Jean Henegan

Tired of sitting in front of a computer and desperately trying to snag tickets to the latest hot concert? Well, such stress might become a thing of the past with the recent announcement from AXS, the new partnership between Mark Cuban, Ryan Seacrest, talent agency CAA, and ticketing giant AEG.

Under the proposed "Fair AXS" ticketing system, those seeking to buy tickets to events would sign up for a reservation spot rather than battle against thousands of other ticket seekers when the seats go on sale. During the week leading up to the official on sale date, consumers would fill out their information in Fair AXS and provide a credit card number, then choose up to three sections of the venue in which they would like to sit. If the demand for a section is greater than the number of available tickets for a particular event, Fair AXS will create a lottery system for distributing tickets.

Ticket resale laws and anti-fraud legislation in the U.S. and United Kingdom

By Arragon Perrone

With the Super Bowl having just ended and the Summer Olympics only five months away, ticket fraud is a major concern both at home and abroad. Within the United States, ticket scalping remains a controversial issue that states have tackled to varying degrees. In Massachusetts and New York, resold tickets cannot cost more than $2 higher than face value. In North Carolina, venues can now block online resale once they notify the secretary of state and pay a mandatory fee.

New York experienced a prolonged debate in May 2010 when the state's 2007 scalping law expired. The law, signed under then-Governor Eliot Spitzer, did away with price caps and permitted fans to resell tickets to sports games without fear of their tickets being revoked.

Ticket Summit named one of EXPO Magazine's Top 25 Fast-Growth Shows of 2011

By Amanda Farrish

Ticket Summit®, the leading conference and trade show for the ticketing and live event industry, was recently included in EXPO Magazine's Top 25 Fast-Growth Shows list. The networking conference was ranked 23 overall in the country, for its fast-paced growth as well as integration of innovative technology in its conference design.

According to EXPO Magazine, the list "assesses conferences and expos not just for their size, but also for new strategies, innovative ways of showcasing exhibitors, blockbuster growth, and use of new media and IT." The 25 conferences and trade shows listed cater to a variety of industries, such as hospitality, food, and event services.



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Month of January 2012

  Seller Score
1     Ticketmaster.com 34.09
2 StubHub.com 15.59
3 Eventbrite.com 5.83
4 TicketLiquidator.com 4.68
TicketsNow.com 4.56
6 Tickets.com 4.08
7 LiveNation.com 3.33
8 Goldstar.com 2.93
9 Telecharge.com 2.52
10 TicketNetwork.com 2.47
11 Vividseats.com 1.53
12 ETix.com 1.35
13 TicketCity.com 1.33
14 Tix.com 0.96
15 GoTickets.com 0.91
16 BrownPaperTickets.com 0.89
17 TicketWeb.com 0.85
18 TicketZoom.com 0.83
19 SeatGeek.com 0.80
20 TiqIQ.com 0.77

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