Guest Commentary

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Guest commentary: the evolving primary and secondary ticket market

Guest Commentary July 14, 2008 0

By Joe Cohen Increasingly, conversations about the business of ticketing seem to be about the blurring of the lines between primary and secondary markets. For consumers, buying tickets has been “blurry” for a long time. Additionally, it is not all that clear to many market players how the industry... Read more

Guest Commentary: The Global Secondary Ticketing Market

Guest Commentary January 23, 2008 6

By Eric H. Baker Back in 2000, when I co-founded StubHub!, secondary ticketing was a foreign concept. Consumers were skeptical that it was just scalping by another name, most states had strict laws preventing the resale of tickets, and the sports and music industries denied its existence. At the... Read more