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Earlier this week, the UK Culture, Media and Sport Committee held an evidence session on secondary ticketing, which turned in to a bit of a grilling for Ticketmaster and StubHub’s representatives. That tone has continued...

After the Italian government’s recent move to regulate secondary ticketing, the anti-secondary action moved back to the UK yesterday, with StubHub and Ticketmaster giving evidence to MPs on the culture, media and sport...

Secondary ticketing is a very sensitive issue in the UK at the moment, so when StubHub decided to sponsor music magazine Q’s annual awards, it probably saw it as a charm offensive. Unfortunately for StubHub, a number...

The live industry is exacerbating the secondary ticketing market by over-hyping shows a year in advance so they sell out on day one while at the same time not giving consumers a proper avenue to sell on tickets they have...

Yesterday was a day of highs and lows for Adele’s management team and Songkick, as they battled to ensure that tickets for the star’s 2016 tour got into the hands of real fans rather than touts. The low was a bug with...

"The resale of tickets will not be tolerated." Adele is set to be the hot concert ticket of 2016, and the star's team is determined to get those tickets into the hands of fans rather than touts or secondary ticketing services. Some...

Ticketing app Dice.fm is weighing in to the debate about secondary ticketing services in the UK, encouraging fans to make their voices heard in a public consultation opened by the government. Professor Michael Waterson...

"It's business 101. If I'm a business trying to sell a product to a customer, and there's a way for me to put my products on the shelves of a place where millions of my customers are spending time and engaging with content...

BandPage has been helping hundreds of thousands of musicians keep their biographies updated and/or sell merchandise and VIP experiences with partners including Spotify, Vevo and Google. Now it has found a new area for partnership:...

eBay’s secondary ticketing subsidiary StubHub is looking for a new boss, after president Chris Tsakalakis stepped down with immediate effect. StubHub’s North America boss Noah Goldberg and chief financial officer Ajay...

London startup Dice made a splash when launching recently, partly through its focus on an editorial team providing gig recommendations, rather than pure e-commerce features. But it’s not the only company exploring editorial...

Seven people have been arrested after buying thousands of tickets from eBay’s StubHub service using stolen credit-card numbers. Reuters reports that the arrests were made in the UK, US and Canada, with charges including...