All posts belonging to the UK tag can be found in the list below.
The UK National Theatre’s £15 cheap ticket scheme could be in jeopardy after Travelex announced it is ending its sponsorship with the performing arts venue in London. According to The Stage, N...
Tags: Cheap Tickets, London, National Theatre, Sponsorship, Theatre, Travelex, UKLive Nation UK is set to move its London headquarters, effectively doubling the size of its current offices in the capital. The Evening Standard reports that the firm, which owns ticketing giant Ti...
Tags: headquarters, HQ, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, UKTicketmaster faced tough questioning about its complete failure to prevent touts from harvesting tickets to resell for a profit during a hearing on secondary ticketing in UK Parliament. Scottish MP...
Tags: DCMS, Hearing, MPs, Parliament, Secondary Ticketing, Ticketmaster, Touts, UKThe UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced it is taking Viagogo to court for allegedly breaking consumer protection laws. The watchdog said that the resale website had failed to...
Tags: Christopher Miller, DCMS, Investigation, MPs, Resale, Secondary Market, UK, ViagogoFestival-goers reportedly consider the price of a ticket as more important than weather or distance when deciding whether to return to an event they have attended. Around 26 per cent of people su...
Tags: CGA, Festivals, prices, Travel, UK, WeatherThe UK’s High Court of Justice has ordered Active Ticketing, the UK startup that was a spin off from the Samsung Smart Ticket mobile phone launch, into liquidation. In February, Active Ticketin...
Tags: Active Ticketing, High Court, Lee Booth, Liquidation, Samsung Smart Ticket, UKThe Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers (STAR) has appointed Richard Brundle as its new chairman. Brundle was approved unanimously at STAR’s recent AGM and takes over from Adrian Sanders who h...
Tags: Appointment, chairman, Richard Brundle, Society of Ticket Agent, STAR, UKTouts that use bots in the UK are to begin facing unlimited fines as of today (Thursday). Through the addition to the Digital Economy Act, which became law in 2017, those that employ automated soft...
Tags: Bots, CMA, Digital Economy Act, Fines, Law, Legislation, Reg Walker, Touts, UKUp to 40,000 UK Ticketmaster customers may have had “some personal or payment information” stolen following a data security breach at the ticketing giant. Ticketmaster admitted it had been hack...
Tags: Data Breach, Hack, Personal Data, Safety, Security, Ticketmaster, UKAXS is to launch its AXS Marketplace resale platform in the UK with a price cap of no more than 10 per cent above face value. The secondary ticketing site has signed initial partnerships with AEG v...
Tags: AXS, AXS Marketplace, Face Value, Flash Seats, Price Cap, Resales, UK
