Inability to Be All Things Exposed in Ticketmaster Complaint
One of the keys to the Live Nation/Ticketmaster model is the vertical integration of the company. From the parent company...
Opinion: The Pitfalls of “Our” Preferred Secondary Partner
by Joe Rixon, Special to TicketNews Lots of teams out there have developed relationships with a “preferred secondary partner,” that...
StubHub Co-Opting Government to Fight its Foes?
With Live Nation experiencing surging profits, largely on the growth of the Ticketmaster secondary properties at the expense of StubHub,...
Fan “Tragically Hip” Complaint Illustrates Supply/Demand Woes
In June of 2016, ticket sale madness ensued when popular Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip announced what would possibly...
Opinion: Ontario’s Attempted Price Control for Tickets Will Fail
by John Krisko, Special to TicketNews Last year, fans of the Tragically Hip found to their dismay that tickets for...
Foo Fighters Blame Fans, Arena, StubHub For Their Policy
Last week, the Foo Fighters made headlines when their sold-out show in London became a take-no-prisoners stand against “ticket touts”...
New York AG Paul McCartney Investigation Remains Open
The office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman confirmed last week that an investigation was ongoing into the sale...
Live Nation Welcomes Lesley Olenik as VP of Touring for US Concerts Division
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Today, Live Nation Entertainment announced the hire of Lesley Olenik as a VP of Touring for its US Concerts division....
Business Experts: Keep Secondary Markets Open and Legal
With tickets straddling the boundary between a physical good owned by the purchaser, and ethereal ‘right’ owned by the venue,...
Motley Fool Rates Ticketmaster as “Ripe For Disruption” by Amazon
The back-and-forth on the potential that e-commerce giant Amazon will make a move into the event ticketing space continues to...
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