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Contactless digital ticketing service True Tickets has partnered with the Tessitura Network to offer its services to more than 700 not-for-profit arts and cultural institutions. Under the agreement...
Tags: Blockchain, Contactless, Tessitura Network, theatres, True TicketsCinema ticket sales in China have surpassed the US for the first time, making the country the world’s largest box office in 2020. Box office sales in China have surpassed $1.98bn (£1.5bn) for 20...
Tags: Box Office, China, Cinema, Sales, South KoreaFrance is reportedly preparing to ban standing concerts until March 31 due to a resurgence of COVID-19 cases. According to Les Jours, the government is preparing to outlaw all “horizontal concert...
Tags: Bans, Covid-19, Festivals, France, Live EventsAll tickets that were put on general sale for the AFL Grand Final Aussie rules showpiece were snapped up within 20 minutes this (Tuesday) morning. Saturday's event at The Gabba marks the first time...
Tags: AFL, grand final, SalesOrganisers of the Rugby League World Cup 2021 (RLWC2021) have announced a partnership with ticket insurance and protection company TicketPlan. The tournament, which is a year away, kicks off its pu...
Tags: insurance, Rugby League World Cup, TicketplanThousands of NRL fans were stuck outside Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane this weekend after a mobile ticketing failure by Ticketek, leading to concerns over an unsafe COVID-19 environment. The major ma...
Tags: AFL, Attendance, Bledisloe, Bundesliga, Covid-19, NRL, TicketekThe Ticket Factory employees are among those impacted by NEC Group's announcement that more than half its workforce will be made redundant due to the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on it...
Tags: Covid-19, jobs, NEC Group, The Ticket FactoryAmerican rock band The Flaming Lips performed in front of an audience of fans inside individual human-sized plastic bubbles at The Criterion in Oklahoma City. Frontman Wayne Coyne has been crowd su...
Tags: Concert, Covid-19, Live Events, The Flaming LipsSome 588 arts and cultural organisations, including comedy clubs, festivals, and regional theatres, have received a share of more than £76m in the second round of the UK government’s Cultural Recov...
Tags: Arts Council England, Comedy Clubs, Culture, NTIA, venuesPromoters of a summer concert featuring The Chainsmokers have been fined £20,000 from New York officials for violating an executive order by hosting a “non-essential” gathering that failed to enf...
Tags: Covid-19, In The Know Experiences, New York, Promoter, The ChainsmokersTickets for the Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL), the Australian women's domestic Twenty20 cricket competition, have gone on sale today (Friday). The 2020 WBBL will take place entirely within Sydne...
Tags: Australia, Cricket, Sales, Ticketek, Ticketmaster, WBBL
