Tag: Ticketmaster
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 [...]
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” [...]
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