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TicketCo, a Norwegian event payments and ticketing platform, is due to open offices in Poland and Sweden, continuing its European growth. The company has confirmed a five-year partnership with Poli...
Tags: Expansion, Legia Warsaw, Poland, Sweden, TicketCoShowClix has been identified as the ticketing company responsible for Burning Man’s main sale technical issues last Wednesday, which led to organisers apologising to frustrated fans. Dave Brooks,...
Tags: Burning Man, Festival, ShowClix, Sold Out, TechnologyStubHub has increased its fees to 15 per cent for ticket sellers in North America that rake in less than $250,000 (€221,000/£191,000) in sales, while big brokers see no change. In an email to it...
Tags: Brokers, Fees, North America, Sellers, StubHubAEG and its ticketing partner AXS have launched a price-capped resale platform at AEG-owned venues The O2 and SSE Arena, Wembley, effectively halting the activities of touts. AXS launched its cappe...
Tags: AEG, AXS, Flash Mobile Delivery, Price Cap, Resale, SSE Arena Wembley, The O2FlipTix, the tertiary ticketing firm that sells “unused time,” has partnered with events producer Danny Wimmer Presents (DWP). Under the agreement, the proprietary ticket flipping option become...
Tags: Danny Wimmer Presents, DWM, Festivals, Flip, FlipTix, Refunds, ResaleNorth American ticket marketplace Vivid Seats has acquired Toronto-based B2B technology firm Fanxchange for $60m (£46m/€53m). Fanxchange lists tickets across multiple distribution verticals wher...
Tags: Acquisition, Fanxchange, Live Events, Resale, Technology, Vivid Seats, White LabeledTicketmaster Italy has teamed up with Italian festival promoter Home Entertainment to expand its portfolio of events. The ticketing giant will provide end-to-end ticketing services for all Home Ent...
Tags: Events, Festivals, Home Entertainment, M&A, Ticketmaster ItalyAustralia’s Splendour in the Grass music and arts festival recorded its largest on-sale to date, shifting more than 42,500 tickets. Hitting this milestone is due, in part, to the event securing a...
Tags: Australia, Festival, Live Nation, Moshtix, On Sale, Sales, Splendour in the GrassPixelPin, a UK-founded image-based authentication start-up, has raised £1.5m (€1.7m/$1.9m) in a funding round to expand its presence in Asia. The London-based firm, which became a hit amongst th...
Tags: Asia, authentication, Funding, Images, Investment, Passwords, PixelPin, TBF19, TokyoThe UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced today (Thursday) that it has launched a preliminary investigation into the proposed merger between venue management services company SMG an...
Tags: AEG, AEG Facilities, CMA, Competition and Markets Authority, SMGAll Elite Wrestling (AEW), a new promotion headlined by members of The Elite, has teamed up with Lyte to provide resale options for fans The Elite includes wrestlers such as Cody Rhodes (pictured),...
Tags: AEW, Lyte, Resale, Wrestling
