Posts Tagged Secondary Ticketing

The FanFair Alliance has this week published new research into secondary ticketing platforms that pay for prominent placement on search engines– a practice that can divert fans away from primary platforms and further distorts the boundaries between primary and...

The Digital Economy Bill, which includes measures to combat industrial scale ticket touting has now received the royal assent and become law, amid unconfirmed reports that the Queen herself was scalped on Ed Sheeran tickets earlier this year. The...

The ongoing inquiries of Parliament’s Culture, Media and Sport Committee’s into ticketing abuse and in particular the secondary market, have been canned in light of the imminent dissolution of Parliament and the minor inconvenience of an upcoming general election....

Secondary ticketing is a topic of interest for almost all parties in the live industry these days, with even major promoters whose companies facilitate it by operating secondary platforms positioning themselves as part of the solution. The important news...

Ed Sheeran is the latest artist to speak out against secondary ticketing sites after tickets for his forthcoming UK arena tour ended up on sale at hugely inflated prices. Sheeran’s representatives issued a statement saying that the singer is “deeply...

As the secondary ticketing debate continues to rumble on and on and on, face value ticket reseller Twickets has expanded into the international market with the launch of a new Australia-based operation. The company has recruited former head of...

Twickets, the face value ticket reseller has exceeded its target of £700,000 in only 32 days on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs being just a hairs breadth short of the £900,000 milestone as we go to press. Despite breaching the funding...

A cross-party group of MPs and Peers this week joined industry figures and artists to call on the Government to accept the “Ban the Bots” amendment ahead of the report stage of the Digital Economy Bill. Led by MPs...