Hypebot reports that Eventbrite, the self-service ticketing platform has secured $60 million in a funding round led by Tiger Global Management and new investor T. Rowe Price, bringing the total amount raised to $140 million. . Read More
It's been less than 48 hours since it was publicly announced that Irving Azoff is parting ways with Live Nation, the company he led after creating Front Line, the world's largest artist management company, selling it to Ticketmaster, and merging with Live Nation, and there is no shortage of coverage and commentary on why he left and what he'll do next. . Read More
Los Angeles - Live Nation (NYSE: LYV) announced on Friday that its Ticketmaster division will acquire ServiCaixa, the largest ticket retailer in Spain, from Spanish financial services firm la Caixa.
Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The deal will create the largest ticketing company in Spain, through the combination of Ticketmaster Spain — formerly known as TickTackTicket — and ServiCaxia, also known as Serviticket.
It will also allow Ticketmaster to offer tickets through la Caxia’s network of 8,100 ATM machines in the country.
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Los Angeles - Live event promoter and venue owner AEG announced on Thursday that it has partnered with Outbox on a joint venture to launch an electronic ticketing service to compete with Ticketmaster-Live Nation (NYSE: LYV). Outbox Enterprises is a joint venture between AEG, Cirque du Soleil, Outbox and former Ticketmaster CEO Fredric D. Rosen, with Rosen and Outbox CEO Jean-Francoys Brousseau to serve as co-CEOs.
Outbox will allow venues to sell tickets to consumers directly from their own websites.
The service is expected to launch at all 105 [...].
Los Angeles – Ticketmaster (NYSE: LYV) on Tuesday launched a number of new social features, integrating with Facebook so that users can see what events their friends are attending, and "Like" the artist and venue pages on the Ticketmaster site. After purchasing a ticket on Ticketmaster.com, consumers will be prompted with an option to click a new "Attending" button that will display the information on their Facebook profiles.
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.Los Angeles – Ticketmaster (NYSE: LYV) said on Monday that it has partnered with Iomedia, to integrate the company’s Virtual Venue interactive ticketing technology. The service lets fans digitally preview their exact seat’s location and sightlines.
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Los Angeles – In response to consumer complaints, Ticketmaster (NASD: TKTM) plans to begin listing the "convenience" and other fees added to base ticket prices on its website for consumers earlier in their transactions. "We get it — you don’t like service fees," the company said in a blog post, in response to the results of a consumer survey.
"You don’t like them mostly because you don’t understand what the heck they are for. We’ll try to do a better job in this space over the coming [...].
