SeatGeek Wins $100 Million Deal To Resell MLB Tickets

Take a long look at the ticket windows at Marlins Stadium in Miami. They may be extinct soon, like the dodo. getty Major League Baseball has a new secondary ticket marketplace. Mobile platform SeatGee...

Ticketmaster Urges Congress To Crack Down On Ticket Scalping As Lawmakers Take Aim Over Taylor Swift Debacle

Topline Ticketmaster called on Congress to regulate ticket scalping tactics and giving artists control over sales Thursday, months after the company drew widespread criticism for a botched Taylor Swif...

Bruce Springsteen Tickets For Houston Now Cost The Same As Two Gallons Of Gasoline

NEW YORK, NEW YORK—DECEMBER 13: Bruce Springsteen performs at the 7th Annual John Henry’s Friends … [+] Benefit held at Town Hall on December 13, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Al Pereir...

If Ticketmaster Botches Beyoncé ‘Renaissance’ Tour, BeyHive (And Congress) Could Sting

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA FEBRUARY 5: Beyonce accepts the Best Dance/Electronic Music Album award for … [+] Renaissance onstage during the 65th GRAMMY Awards at Crypto.com Arena on February 05, 20...

Bruce Springsteen’s Ticket Prices For His February 14th Show Are Crashing

NEW YORK, NE(W YORK – NOVEMBER 08, 2021 (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for SUFH) Getty Images for SUFH Just this week the Senate Judiciary Committee posted an ominous message to Ticketmas...

Ticketmaster braces for high demand

Beyoncé performing. Larry Busacca | PW18 | Getty Images Ticketmaster is gearing up for what’s expected to be high demand for tickets to Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance World Tour,...

Beyoncé Partners With Ticketmaster For ‘Renaissance’ Tour Presale—Here’s Why Some Fans Are Worried

Topline Tickets for Beyoncé’s upcoming “Renaissance” world tour will go on sale next week with Ticketmaster, leaving some fans concerned about securing seats for highly-anticipated concerts after the ...

Waiting On Taylor Swift

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JULY 10: Taylor Swift performs onstage as Taylor Swift, Dua Lipa, SZA and Becky … [+] G perform at The Prime Day concert, presented by Amazon Music at on July 10, 2019...

The Live Nation and Ticketmaster monopoly of live entertainment

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing this week titled, “That’s the Ticket: Promoting Competition and Protecting Consumers in Live Entertainment,” which focused on the state ...

CEO Blames Bot Cyberattack For Website Crash In Congressional Testimony

Topline Live Nation President Joe Berchtold told members of Congress that “industrial scalpers” and a “cyberattack” caused the Taylor Swift ticket sales meltdown last year in testimony before a Senate...

Ticketmaster Gives Some Fans Another Chance At Taylor Swift ‘Eras’ Tickets After Presale Fiasco

Topline Ticketmaster gave select fans another opportunity to purchase tickets for Taylor Swift’s “Eras” tour on Monday, after the company was widely criticized by Swift and her fans for website glitch...

E-commerce Bots Boosting Prices, Causing Shortages, And Taking Advantage Of Crises

When TicketMaster melted down in November under the avalanche of Taylor Swift fans trying to get concert tickets, the company blamed bots. The site was supposed to open up only for 1.5 million Swift f...

Inside Metallica’s ‘Enhanced Experience’ Ticket Packages

MADRID, SPAIN – JULY 06: Guitarist James Hetfield of the band Metallica during the first day of the … [+] Mad Cool 2022 festival in Valdebebas, on July 6, 2022, in Madrid, Spain. The U.S. ...

Taylor Swift tour promoter says it had no choice but to work with Ticketmaster

Taylor Swift accepts the Artist of the Year award onstage during the 2022 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter | Getty Images Entert...

Live Nation Reportedly Under Investigation By The Justice Department—Before Taylor Swift Mess

Topline Live Nation Entertainment is being investigated by the Department of Justice, the New York Times reported Friday, citing anonymous sources, over concerns the company has abused its power with ...

Taylor Swift Says She’s ‘Not Going To Make Excuses For Anyone’ In First Statement About Ticketmaster Mess

Topline In Taylor Swift’s first statement since Ticketmaster canceled the general admissions sale of tickets for her upcoming “Eras” tour, the singer said she was assured by the company it could handl...

Taylor Swift slams ‘outside entity’ over Ticketmaster tour sale fiasco

Taylor Swift performs onstage during iHeartRadio’s Z100 Jingle Ball 2019 Presented By Capital One on December 13, 2019 in New York City. Kevin Mazur | Getty Images Taylor Swift responded to fans...

Ticketmaster Cancels Public Sale For Taylor Swift ‘Eras’ Tour Amid Historically High Demand

Topline Ticketmaster said Thursday it was canceling the general admissions sale of tickets for Taylor Swift’s “The Eras” tour, after the site crashed earlier this week during pre-sale events because o...

Taylor Swift public ticket sale canceled over extreme demand, Ticketmaster says

Taylor Swift poses with her awards during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2022 held at PSD Bank Dome on November 13, 2022 in Duesseldorf, Germany. Kevin Mazur | Wireimage | Getty Images Tickets for Taylor...

Taylor Swift Ticketmaster fiasco is fault of demand, bots, Liberty Media CEO says

Now we got bad bots. The CEO of Liberty Media, Live Nation’s largest shareholder, defended the event promoter against calls that it should be broken up following a storm of glitches and site fai...

Taylor Swift ticket fiasco leads to calls for Ticketmaster, Live Nation to break up

Taylor Swift accepts an award onstage during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2022 held at PSD Bank Dome on November 13, 2022 in Duesseldorf, Germany. Jeff Kravitz | Filmmagic | Getty Images There’s ...

Taylor Swift ‘Eras’ tour presale extended by Ticketmaster

Taylor Swift poses with her awards during the MTV Europe Music Awards 2022 held at PSD Bank Dome on November 13, 2022 in Duesseldorf, Germany. Kevin Mazur | Wireimage | Getty Images Never doubt the po...

Spotify Launches New Site To Sell Tickets To Live Music Events

NEW ORLEANS, LA – SEPTEMBER 02: Aubrey Drake Graham aka Drake at Smoothie King Center on September … [+] 2, 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Erika Goldring/Getty Images) Getty Ima...

Ticketmaster Announces Collaboration With Dapper Labs To Mint Event Tickets As NFTs on Flow Blockchain

The world’s largest online ticketing platform is teaming up with blockchain firm Dapper Labs to enable event organizers to mint tickets as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on the Flow (FLOW) blockchain. Dap...

Ticketmaster Chooses Dapper Labs’ Flow Blockchain for NFT Tickets

Event ticketing behemoth Ticketmaster announced today that it will adopt the Flow blockchain from Dapper Labs for minting tickets as NFTs for select events. The NFTs—unique blockchain tokens that sign...

Ticketmaster selects Flow blockchain for minting NFT event tickets

According to Flow, a digital engagement layer-1 blockchain created by Dapper Labs, Live Nation’s subsidiary Ticketmaster has unveiled nonfungible tokens (NFTs) tickets for event organizers minte...

Ticketmaster Partners with Flow Blockchain to Mint Live Event Ticket NFTs

American ticketing company Ticketmaster announced that it will enhance the fan event experience through digital collectable NFTs, and will mint ticket NFTs for selected events on Dapper Labs’ Fl...

Ticketmaster Will Help Event Organizers Issue NFTs Using FLOW Blockchain

Ticket Master, an American ticket sales and distribution company, and Flow, a decentralized network supported by Web3 builders backed by Dapper Labs, have announced a new partnership aiming at distrib...

Ticketmaster Teams With Dapper Labs’ Flow Blockchain For Live Event NFTs

Tickets have been associated with NFTs but have been largely untapped from some of the major conglomerates in the ticketing business to date. Ticketmaster could be looking to really get in the mix, ho...

Ticket Marketplace Giant Ticketmaster Chooses Flow Blockchain for NFT Push – Blockchain Bitcoin News

This week, Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. revealed the company will give event organizers the ability to mint non-fungible token (NFT) tickets via the Flow blockchain. Last November, Ticketmaster sa...

Ticketmaster Collaborates With Dapper Labs For NFT Tickets

11 seconds ago | 2 mins read NFT News According to Dapper, over five million Flow NFTs were created in the pilot program. Dapper’s NBA Top Shot NFTs have witnessed more than 21 million trades. A Giant...

Ticketmaster Will Issue NFTs on Flow

Key Takeaways Ticketmaster publicly unveiled its NFT program today after a quiet six-month pilot program. The company will issue NFTs on Flow, an NFT-centric blockchain developed by Dapper Labs. Ticke...