News ‘Premium experience platform’ Seat Unique raises $19m in extended funding round Seat Unique is currently offering VIP tickets and hospitality packages for Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift, and the recently reunited Oasis
News Ticketing startup TickPick secures $250M investment in ‘largest fundraise’ in industry to date TickPick says its all-in, no-fee pricing model has saved over $180 million in service fees alone on its platform since its inception
News DICE exploring sale valuing it at ‘hundreds of millions of dollars’ (report) The potential sale comes amid a flurry of M&A activity in the ticketing and live events space
News US House passes ‘TICKET Act’ requiring all-in pricing for major live events The bill would also ban "speculative ticketing" and the use of deceptive URLs to rip off ticket buyers
News Billie Eilish and Green Day among 250+ artists backing US Senate bill to reform ticketing industry The bill would require disclosure of a ticket's final sales price before purchase, and strengthen enforcement of laws against ticket-buying bots
News Spotify scales back ticketing ambitions after job cuts (Report) The music streaming giant may turn to M&A to achieve its goal of owning a ticketing business, a news report says.
Analysis Live Nation’s Michael Rapino lays out the argument for why concerts – not streaming – are the future of the music biz Rapino spoke at length at Liberty Media's investor conference in New York last week, breaking down the economics of his company's field
News Fan engagement app Afterparty.AI secures $5m in new funding, bringing total raised to $12m Afterparty says the money will go towards developing its new AI-powered platform
News As live music bounces back after lockdown, Spotify dips a toe into concert ticket business Spotify tests concert ticket sales direct to fans
News Touts who ran £11m ticket reselling scheme found guilty of fraud in the UK Tickets were resold for events including Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift concerts
News Investigation launched into ‘potential unfair and deceptive practices’ in US ticketing market Live Nation, AEG, StubHub, Vivid Seats, TicketNetwork, and Tickets.com sent letters by Energy And Commerce Committee
News EU Parliament votes to ban use of ticket-buying bots Landmark ruling is EU’s first action to regulate ticket resale
News Ticketmaster shuts down secondary sites in Europe GET ME IN! and Seatwave to be replaced by face value or less fan-to-fan ticket exchange
News Tixserve partners with Ireland’s largest indie ticket provider tickets.ie tickets.ie processes 2.7 million tickets annually for entertainment events across Ireland including sports, arts, music and theatre
News Vivendi expands ticketing operation in Europe and the US with LiveStyle deal Ticketing and technology company Paylogic acquired