Tag: ticketing

Single Music is a startup that makes a 'monetised video' tool for ecommerce platform Shopify, so that artists using the latter to sell merch can also use it for ticketed livestreams. The company says that it has sold...

Ticketing firm Dice has raised $122m in its Series C funding round. Venture capital giant SoftBank's Vision Fund 2 led the round, with Future Shape.

Audience Republic is the startup that has just opened up its pre-registration platform for promoters, festivals and artists. Meanwhile, Event Genius is the British ticketing company that was acquired in 2019 by festival...

Aimed at promoters, festivals and artists, it's a way for them to sell presale tickets to their superfans, but also to get those fans promoting their events.

Finding ways for artists to gather their fanbases for communication and commerce is one of 2021's key music/tech startup categories. Planet is looking beyond just ticketing.

Dutch firm TicketSwap pitches itself as an “ethical ticket resale platform”, letting fans buy or swap tickets for live events with a 20% cap on how much they can charge over the original price. More than five million...

As the industry eagerly awaits the return of physical concerts at scale in countries where they were shut down due to Covid-19, so the startups around the live industry are preparing too. One of the newest is Tixxy, based...

UK-based ticketing firm Dice has spent the Covid-19 pandemic expanding its business into livestreams and merch. Now it is expanding geographically too, building on its US launch in 2019 with a new “second HQ” in New York....

Anyone looking for a reminder not to get too carried away with the NFTs bonanza would do worse to look at the fate of some of the blockchain music companies from a few years ago that had big ambitions. Big Neon for example,...

In 2018, ticketing startup Seated made people, ahem, sit up and take notice when it was one of the winners at the Midemlab startups contest. We reported on its winning pitch at the time, with the company working directly...

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued its verdict on secondary ticketing firm Viagogo’s acquisition of rival StubHub. The regulator says Viagogo will have to sell StubHub’s business...

It still feels a little strange to be writing about ticket touting (scalping) controversies, given that the bottom has dropped out of the secondary ticketing market just as it has the live industry more generally. The concerns...