Category: Event Ticketing
Ticketscript announces partnership with HMV in the UK and Ireland events market
Ticketscript, European market leader in online, mobile and social ticketing solutions and HMV Group, the UK’s leading specialist retailer of filmed entertainment, games, music and portable digital technology products, have announced today that they have formed a partnership to service the UK and Ireland events market. Ticketscript will now sell tickets through HMV’s 250 plus [...]
WeGotTickets Sets ‘Site’ on Festivals for 2012
WeGotTickets is expanding their festival offering in 2012 with the launch of their custom-built festival ticketing site, WeGotFestivals. WeGotFestivals will offer customers easy access to WeGotTickets’ 200 plus music and non-music festivals, many of which might otherwise go undiscovered. Already on the site are Field Day, Bearded Theory, Electric Elephant, Meadowlands, Wychwood, All Tomorrow’s Parties [...]
Industry kitemark launched as unscrupulous ticket fraudsters prey on Brits
ONE in 10 people have been affected by ticket fraud in the UK. Research carried out by STAR, the Society of Ticket Agencies and Retailers, reveals that one of the reasons the number of victims is worryingly high is that ticket buyers seem unaware of what measures they can take to protect themselves. People splashing [...]
Ebay to Launch UK Secondary Ticket Sales Website
Online auction site Ebay has announced plans to launch its secondary ticket sales website in the UK. StubHub, acquired by Ebay in 2007 for $310m, has thus far been the US market leader in secondary ticket sales. UK rivals to StubHub will include Seatwave and Viagogo, run by StubHub’s co-founder Eric Baker. He left the [...]
Promoter Offer Alternative Dates for Traffic Affected JLS Fans
Organisers of the JLS concert at Winchester’s Matterly Bowl have offered customers who missed all or part of the show the chance to see the concert for free at alternative venues. Coz We Can Ltd has issued a letter in reply to e-mail complaints made by customers. Ticket holders can choose to see the show [...]
Government Issues Warning to Festival Goers Relating to Online Ticket Scams
An increased risk of online scams has lead the government to issue music lovers a warning on its Directgov website. In light of the busy summer festival season, Directgov has issued the warning, stating on their site that ‘More than one in ten people (or their friends and family) have already been a victim of [...]
Ticketscript enables Hed Kandi customers to buy mobile tickets for events through the Hed Kandi Ibiza App
Ticketscript, European leader in mobile ticketing and online self-service solutions announced today that it is providing world leading music and lifestyle brand, Hed Kandi with an online mobile ticketing solution across its European operations. Ticketscript’s plug-and-play ticket shop will allow Hed Kandi to sell advanced e-tickets and mobile tickets via its Hed Kandi Ibiza App, [...]
Tesco to sell affordable racecourse concert tickets
A new initiative to help make gigs more affordable to Tesco customers this summer has been set up by event and concert production company, Liz Hobbs Group Ltd. Tesco is now selling cut-price tickets for 23 open-air music concerts at a number of Jockey Club Racecourses across the UK*, through its Tesco Entertainment website. The [...]
Live Nation partner with Groupon to launch discount ticket site
GrouponLive, expected to launch in June, is aimed at easing both the perennial problem of filling empty seats at concerts and sporting events. Hoping to boost concert attendance in a hobbled economy, Ticketmaster parent Live Nation Entertainment Inc., is joining with the popular online deals site Groupon to launch a discount ticket site for live [...]
UK event organisers agree to a police idea to protect people from fraudulent ticket websites.
Two of the biggest live event organisers in the UK have agreed to a police idea to protect people from fraudulent ticket websites. Festival Republic and Livenation will send out tickets as soon as possible, rather than waiting, sometimes for six months, until just before performances. Police say the delay makes it difficult to prove [...]
Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival Uses RFID Wristbands For Events Access Control
Security wristband company, ID&C are set to provide a full RFID solution for the admission control at the famed Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in California. ID&C, leaders in admission control for live events, will supply RFID wristbands to accompany a complete contactless access control solution for April’s Coachella Festival. The wristbands will enhance [...]
Innovative marketer joins leading event wristband company
ID&C, leaders in security and admission control at live events, welcome new Marketing Manager, Craig Bennett. With over five years experience in events and marketing and a background in the music industry, Craig was the perfect appointment to propel the companies’ offline and digital marketing efforts and strengthen ID&C’s brand. Craig comments: ‘ID&C have some [...]
Ticket Tout Response Vehicle Proves Success For Leeds Festival
For the first time a multi agency tout response vehicle was deployed at this year’s Leeds Festival which happened at Bramham Park, Leeds, West Yorkshire from Friday 27th to Sunday 29th August. Officers from a number of different agencies joined forces with Leeds Festival organisers this year in order to form the new ‘Multi agency [...]
Q Magazine puts lucky golden tickets in U2 vs Muse
Q Magazine is the UK’s biggest selling music magazine, with music news, reviews and features. Q Magazine is published monthly. 20 lucky readers of Q Magazine Q288, found golden winning tickets inside their copy. Each golden ticket entitled the winner to a pair of Q’s Golden Glastonbury tickets, celebrating 40 years of Glastonbury Festival from [...]
BIG’s New Brand Focuses on Quality, Service and Fun
This spring, international badge specialist BIG unveils a new image for 2010, bringing the renowned BIG brand up-to-date in a way that better reflects the company’s personality and present profile. BIG has come a long way in the last ten years since its last rebrand. Joe Jones, BIG’s UK sales and marketing manager explains, “since [...]
Festival Organisers Select Trinity Mobile to Minimise Ticket Fraud
Trinity Mobile, an industry leader in mobile ticketing, mobile couponing and mobile marketing, announced today that it is enabling UK festival organisers to sell tens of thousands of tickets through its mobile ticketing platform to ease the ticketing process and minimise fraud by virtually eliminating the number of fake tickets presented on the day of [...]
Facebook to start selling tickets to gigs and other events soon
Facebook appears to be testing a way of selling tickets for Facebook events. A page suggesting a partnership between events site Eventbrite and Facebook was briefly spotted but has now disappeared. Could Facebook start selling tickets to gigs and other events soon? Facebook is selling tickets for its forthcoming F8 developer conference using Eventbrite but [...]
Former Ticketmaster CEO joins board at Eventbrite
A hot ticket among start-ups in the events industry these days is San Francisco based Eventbrite. The online event ticket-selling company for event organisers is backed by $6.5 million from Sequoia Capital partner Roelof Botha, the same guy who took a gamble on YouTube, is just coming off a successful year in which it had [...]
TicketDisaster.org Coalition Statement on Competition Commission Approval of Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger
In response to the approval of the Ticketmaster-Live Nation merger by British regulators, the public interest and live event industry members of the TicketDisaster.org coalition today urged the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to consider the profound differences between Ticketmaster’s and Live Nation’s dominance of the U.S. live event market and their market position in [...]
Fake wristbands threaten music festivals
Fraudsters making “highly convincing” fake wristbands are planning to target UK music festivals in 2010, an industry adviser has warned. Thousands of the fakes are likely to be in circulation next summer, according to Reg Walker from Iridium Security, who works with several major festivals. He added there was evidence that criminals staged a “test [...]
OFT promises ‘clearer and fairer’ terms on ticket sales
Music fans and theatre lovers will finally enjoy better rights after Britain’s main consumer watchdog announced that the small print on ticket purchases would be “clearer and fairer” in future. The move comes four-and-a-half years after the Office of Fair Trading uncovered evidence that some ticket sellers were breaking the law and using “potentially unfair” [...]
Reading Festival tickets, another 6,500 may become available
Reading Festival organiser Melvin Benn and Festival Republic are in the process of asking Reading Borough Council if they can sell up to 6,500 more tickets over the next two years. Festival bosses are also proposing to increase the number of “early arrivals” from 7,500 to 20,000. Currently the festival sells 78,500 tickets with 4,999 [...]
Beachdown organisers will honour all ticket sales
Beachdown festival bosses have told everyone their tickets are safe – after a sales company went into administration. Trinity Street Direct Limited the company processing the £97.50 tickets for the August Bank Holiday festival went into administration leaving 750 customers fearing they had lost their ticket and their cash. But yesterday Joe Pidgeon, organiser of [...]
Two year jail sentence for Isle of Wight festival fakes man
THE aftermath of the fake wristbands that hit the Isle of Wight Festival cost organisers tens of thousands of pounds, a court was told. Sophisticated scanning equipment cost more than £40,000 and extra staff and ramped-up police and private security an extra £45,000 in the wake of the 5,000 counterfeit wristbands being produced for the [...]
Glastonbury 2009: Locals lose out on free tickets
Glastonbury festival organisers have provoked the wrath of local residents by reducing the size of the catchment area for free tickets. Festival organiser Michael Eavis has kept on good terms with residents of Pilton, Pill and Sticklynch, three tiny villages near the site, by handing out free passes to compensate for the noise and disruption [...]
Isle of Wight festival signs secondary ticketing deal with Viagogo
Isle of Wight has become the latest major festival to sign up Viagogo as their official secondary ticketing and ticket exchange partner. This follows yesterday’s announcement that Festival Republic (previously fiercely opposed to secondary ticketing sites) had signed a historic deal with the same company to be the official platform for their Reading, Leeds and [...]
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