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Apple has announced that Live Nation Entertainment will sell the tickets and power the concert listings feature on iTunes 10. TechCrunch reports that the partnership is a logical step as Live Nation Entertainment "sold a grand total of 140 million tickets, promoted 21,000 concerts, partnered with 850 sponsors and averaged 25 million unique monthly users of its e-commerce sites."
Michael Rapino, President and CEO of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: LYV), stated:
"We are thrilled to power the concert listings feature on iTunes and deliver this new and simple way for millions of iTunes users to purchase concert tickets at Livenation.com and Ticketmaster.com. Our partnership with Apple is a key part of our strategy to empower fans with the greatest access to live entertainment."
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Media Week is reporting today that the UK live music community is bracing itself for a downturn in the
market for 2010, with an absence of big-name acts and tours in the
crucial fourth quarter.
“Autumn and spring are looking
a bit quiet,” Solo Agency founder John Giddings told Music Week. “I think the
disappointing [ticket] sales figures in America might be partly
responsible. People are very wary about touring there at the moment and
the US definitely sets trends.”
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Norwegian paper Dagbladet recently uncovered a list of 250,000 names and passport
numbers of FIFA's Match customers, allegedly sold on the black market to
high-end organised international ticket touts by a rogue Match employee.
Passport numbers, names, dates of birth and more personal information
reportedly for 250,000 people who purchased World Cup
tickets was allegedly leaked and believed to have been sold on the black
market, including former
Sweden Prime Minister Ingvar Carlsson, Norway's national bank governor
Svein Gjedrem and Swedish skiing champion Anja Pärson.
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The USTA, TicketsNow, and Ticketmaster, a Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. operating business, have launched the US Open Ticket Exchange, the premier resale marketplace for buying and selling US Open tickets. The US Open Ticket Exchange
is the only resale marketplace to provide fans with ticket barcode
authentication technology, meaning every ticket purchased and sold is
validated and authentic, and is the only resale marketplace endorsed by
the USTA.
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Viagogo and NME Ink Deal
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Musicweek is reporting that NME has inked a deal with Viagogo to make
the ticketing exchange site its official secondary ticketing partner.
This is hot on the heals of Viagogo agreeing a similar contract
with Bauer Media's Aloud.com ticketing platform yesterday to provide readers of Q,
Mojo and Kerrang! with access to sold-out gigs and festivals.
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A New Jersey judge has tossed out a case against two ticket resellers in a a lawsuit filed by the state against two concert ticket resellers over the resale of tickets to Bruce Springsteen shows at Giants Stadium last
year.
Orbitz Worldwide and TicketNetwork Direct were charged with violating
the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act by offering tickets before they were made
available to the public, some of which they allegedly didn't possess at
the time or which didn't correspond to actual seats in the stadium.
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Sportsbusinessjournal.com is reporting that Paciolan and StubHub have inked a partnership in which StubHub’s secondary ticketing functionality is
offered with Paciolan’s primary ticketing systems for an impressive roster of American college football and
basketball teams.
When the Department of Justice made Ticketmaster’s divestiture of Paciolan a
requirement of the merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation, a company
that became Live Nation Entertainment, Comcast-Spectacor regained 100 percent control of the company. Paciolan sells over 100 million tickets annually. Whether Stubhub will participate in the other partnerships in pro sports and major venues remains to be seen.
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The Birmingham News is reporting a con man is facing jail after selling £8,000 of fake Take That tickets on auction site eBay. Jason Debney ripped off over 100 fans who wanted to attend the sell-out show at Birmingham’s NEC Arena, by taking their money and simply not supplying tickets.
He sold tickets to about 100 unwitting customers, netting him between £7,000 and £8,000.
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In making, what seems to finally be an attempt to enter web 2.0, Live Nation Entertainment is attempting to 'reach out' and present a new, consumer-friendly face on it's largely-despised brand - with a... blog. Called Ticketology- the brand, it appears, will now inform us the ins and outs of the business - starting with service fees.
"We get it – you don’t like service fees. You don’t like them mostly because you don’t understand what the heck they are for.
Well that's enticing. Followed by...
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Bob Dylan and His Band performing one show on Wednesday, August 25, at
The Warfield in San Francisco, USA and, interestingly, All tickets are general admission and
will be available at The Warfield box office on the day of the show
only. No advance tickets will be available anywhere for this
performance. Admission to the show is $60 cash. No credit cards will
be accepted. Goldenvoice VP David Lefkowitz said, "Given the state of touring and how
fees have escalated, it was a real breath of fresh air to do something
so consumer oriented by eliminating all ticketing charges, almost a
throwback to another time. It's been almost twenty years since Bob Dylan
played The Warfield and in my opinion, he is an artist that needs no
big promotions or hoopla. He comes, he plays, and it's an incredible
experience."
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