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Resellers ‘confusing’ fans by dominating search engine results – FanFair Alliance

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 11th July 2017

FanFair Alliance, the anti-touting campaign group, has claimed that secondary ticketing platforms are misleading would-be ticket buyers by consistently securing top search engine results. Ticket re...

Tags: CMS Select Committee, Ed Sheeran, Fanfair Alliance, GetMeIn, Google, Google Rankings, Resale Market, Secondary Ticketing, Stuart Galbraith, StubHub, Ticket Resellers, Touting, UK Tours, Viagogo

Ticket Zone joins Fan Fair Alliance in fight against touts

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 16th June 2017

Ticketing platform Ticket Zone has linked up with FanFair Alliance, the anti-touting campaign group, to rally against ticketing industrial-scale online scalping. The company has signed FanFair’s ...

Tags: Anti-Touting Campaign, Ed Sheeran, Face Value, Fanfair Alliance, resale sites, Scalping, Secondary Ticketing, StubHub, Ticket Zone, Ticketmaster, Touts

Unique ticket number now required from resale platforms

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 28th April 2017

Ticket resale platforms will have to provide a unique number for all tickets offered in the UK after the Digital Economy Bill was passed by Parliament last night. The legislation, which has now bee...

Tags: Bots, Digital Economy Bill, fake tickets, Fanfair Alliance, Matt Hancock, Parliament, Scalping

Race is on to pass Digital Economy Bill ahead of election

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 25th April 2017

Plans to crack down on ticket scalping in the UK could be dashed if the Digital Economy Bill is not passed in the next week. Prime Minister Theresa May’s surprise decision to call a General Elect...

Tags: Bots, Consumer Rights Act, Digital Economy Bill, Fanfair Alliance, Parliament

Parliamentary inquiry axed ahead of election

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 24th April 2017

FanFair Alliance hopes the Parliamentary inquiry into ticket abuse will be resurrected after June’s General Election, following the cancellation of the existing investigation. The Culture, Media...

Tags: DCMS, Fanfair Alliance, Parliament, Viagogo

Ed Sheeran team puts scalping at core of world tour plans

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 19th April 2017

Secondary ticketing was a “huge issue” in the planning of Ed Sheeran’s Divide world tour, according to the star’s international booking agent. In an interview with Music Week, Jon Ollier, o...

Tags: Booking, CAA, Ed Sheeran, Fanfair Alliance, Scalping, Twickets

House of Lords amendment could have ‘significant’ impact on ticket resale market

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 30th March 2017

The House of Lords’ backing of legislation that would order ticket resale sites to disclose information about their inventory has been welcomed by FanFair Alliance. Lords members yesterday (Wedne...

Tags: Bots, Fanfair Alliance, House of Lords, Parliament, Resale, Terms

See Tickets launches ‘ethical’ resale platform Fan2Fan

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 22nd March 2017

See Tickets has entered into the secondary ticketing market for the first time via its new “ethical” resale platform Fan2Fan. Fan2Fan lets fans resell tickets legally for any of the 35,000 conc...

Tags: Fan2Fan, Fanfair Alliance, Secondary, See Tickets

Sheeran backs FanFair Alliance ticket-buying guide

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 20th March 2017

Stars including Ed Sheeran have backed a new ticket-buying guide from FanFair Alliance that urges music fans not to use secondary ticket sites such as StubHub and Viagogo. The document lists 10 ti...

Tags: Fanfair Alliance, Fans, Twickets, Viagogo

Live Nation artist management division soaring despite resale link

Posted by TheTicketingBusiness
on 28th February 2017

Live Nation, the owner of resale sites GetMeIn! and Seatwave, now has a stake in more than 140 managers looking after more than 500 acts within the music industry. In details released in last week�...

Tags: artist, Fanfair Alliance, Financial, GetMeIn, Live Nation, Seatwave

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