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The Lollapalooza music festival has expanded into another new market, with the Swedish capital of Stockholm to stage an event next summer. Lollapalooza Stockholm will take place from June 28-29, 2019...
Tags: Gärdet, Live Nation, Live Nation Entertaimment, Lollapalooza, Lollapalooza Stockholm, StockholmTicketGuardian, a leading InsurTech startup in the live events space, has added two new consumer-facing insurance products to its inventory. The company said it hopes FanShield and RegShield will o...
Tags: FanShield, InsurTech, RegShield, TicketGuardian, Ticketing, TicketsBlockchain-based ticketing firm Blockparty has launched its ticketing platform for the first time at Elements Lakewood Festival in Pennsylvania, US. The event brought in more than 7,000 punters and f...
Tags: Blockchain, Blockparty, Festival, TechnologyMovie fans can now find showtimes and tickets through their TV sets thanks to a partnership between ticketing firm Fandango and Comcast’s Xfinity. Kicking off the partnership with Jurassic World:...
Tags: Fandango, Movie, TV, Voice Control, XfinityViagogo has been referred to National Trading Standards and could face a prosecution after failing to comply with the advertising watchdog’s transparency criteria. The Advertising Standards Autho...
Tags: ASA, Drip Pricing, Fees, National Trading Standards, Secondary Market, Viagogo, WatchdogIndian ticketing firm BookMyShow has appointed Albert Almeida as its new chief operating officer of non-movies to help boost access to events and identify untapped markets. Almeida will take the le...
Tags: Albert Almeida, Ashish Hemrajani, BookMyShow, Live Events, movie ticketingLive Nation has acquired a majority stake in ScoreMore Shows, a Texas-based independent concert promoter and festival producer. The firm promotes hundreds of regional shows, and oversees a roster o...
Tags: Acquisition, Concerts, Festivals, Live Nation, ScoreMore ShowsFans hoping to obtain tickets for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia have been warned to be more “vigilant” after a ticketing scam was flagged up. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab noticed an email p...
Tags: Fifa World Cup, Football, Russia 2018, scam, World CupSunderland, which suffered relegation from the Championship this year, has targeted 20,000 season ticket sales to help bolster its player transfer budget for its first season in League One. The clu...
Tags: League One, Relegated, Season Tickets, SunderlandTaylor Swift has notched this summer’s highest total ticket sales on StubHub, unseating U2 who topped the list as last year’s top-selling act. Swift has outsold The Eagles with her 25 shows to ...
Tags: Ed Sheeran, In Demand, prices, Sales, Sam Smith, StubHub, Summer Tours, Taylor Swift, The EaglesStubHub UK has changed the way it displays its ticket prices after the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) took a stand against drip pricing earlier this year. As the May 29 deadline passed, seco...
Tags: Advertising, ASA, CMA, Drip Pricing, Fees, Resale, Secondary Market, StubHub, Transparency, Viagogo
