Famed soccer (football) club Manchester United is under fire after allegations that its staff has been withholding available tickets from fans that hold paid memberships with the club, in favor of using them to hook new paid members. Fans reacted with outrage when the alleged scheme was reported by... Read more
Concerts are supposed to be a time of unity and peace, but over the past few years, multiple violent incidents have brought a different type of energy: fear. As gun violence and bombings have made their way into the music scene, concert-goers have had to ask themselves more and... Read more
TicketNews 2017 in Review: Best-Selling Sporting Events
BaseballBoxingFootballMLBNFLSportsSuper BowlTop EventsTop Sports EventsTop Story December 29, 2017
In shocking news that you’ll scarcely believe, the Super Bowl topped the chart in terms of sales for the year 2017, dominating the market (and featuring a pretty solid game, unless you’re a Falcons fan). Super Bowl LI – which featured the New England Patriots come-from-behind victory – trounced... Read more
Liverpool FC, a Premier League team with notoriously die-hard supporters and hard-to-get tickets, has taken legal action against Great Events, an Australian travel agency, for advertising a Liverpool-themed trip that included match tickets. Fans brought the trip to the attention of the Liverpool organization because they were angered to... Read more
Manchester United reportedly plans to hire a full-time ‘ticket touting and compliance officer’ to crack down on black market ticket sales, says The Daily Mail. They will be the first English football club to employ someone for solely this purpose. Unwanted tickets for Manchester United games at Old Trafford... Read more
With just days remaining before the “El Classico” in Miami between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, the International Champions Cup showdown once again reigned supreme in the TicketNetwork marketplace, coming with three of the top 5 spots in our Market Heat Report. Barca played a role in the No.... Read more
Market Heat Report: McCartney Makes the Grade
BaseballBoxingFootballMusicSoccerSportsTop Events July 26, 2017
Former Beatle and prolific songwriter Paul McCartney saw both of his Hollywood Casino (Tinley Park, IL) shows among the hottest in the land, with Tuesday’s concert at No. 13 and tonight’s at No. 10 in the Market Heat Report from the TicketNetwork marketplace. That said, the top of the... Read more
Market Heat Report: Mayweather-McGregor Dominant
BaseballBoxingFootballMusicSoccerSportsTop Events July 25, 2017
Monday was on-sale day for the highly anticipated boxing showdown between MMA star Conor McGregor and unbeaten legend Floyd Mayweather Jr. – so it should come as no surprise that the fight dominated the TicketNetwork marketplace on the day. Tickets for the event came in at No. 1, with... Read more
Market Heat Report: Italian Tenor Bocelli Makes Headway
BaseballMusicSoccerSportsTheaterTop EventsWrestling July 24, 2017
Soccer is still king in the TicketNetwork marketplace, but some music acts are beginning to make headway into the Top 10 once again, headlined by blind Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, who is performing in mid-December at Madison Square Garden. Fan purchases on the TicketNetwork marketplace had that holiday season... Read more
Market Heat Report: Beautiful Numbers for the Beautiful Game
BaseballBoxingFootballMusicNCAASoccerSportsTop Events July 21, 2017
It’s feeling awful European (or, rather, awful ‘everywhere but the United States’) these days, as the secondary market continues to be absolutely dominated by soccer, which took eight of the Top 10 spots in the daily tally on TicketNetwork. While Kenny Rogers remained at No. 1 with his farewell... Read more
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