EUTicket News Contributors
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EU Ticket News provides comprehensive B2B news coverage and market analysis for and about the European ticketing and events industries.
It features breaking news and opinion on the European ticketing and events markets – in addition to the latest ticketing industry-relevant concert, theatre and sports news.
EU Ticket News is an official Google News site and is syndicated to Lexis Nexis, Ebsco, Thomson and other closed intranets via their relationship with Newstex.com.
With more than 1200 European industry leaders subscribing to the weekly email digest and rapidly rising unique visitors, EU Ticket News’ readership includes ticket buyers and sellers, ticket brokers, venture capital analysts, venue management, affiliate marketing professionals, consumers, sports management professionals, concert/event promoters and software vendors from across the continent.
The site also contains a vast, highly-educational section with videos on Legal Issues around secondary ticketing, the European Ticketing Industry, Mobile Ticketing, the Social Media aspects of the Ticketing Industry, Paperless Ticketing, and the World Cup 2010 in South Africa
EU Ticket News is published by Canadian expatriate Richard Kastelein – a Netherlands-based C-level strategist with a number of start-ups. He also has strong skills in Social Media and Social TV Architecture and Analysis – Community/SNS building using Open Source technology as well as experience with New Media publishing and remodeled old school print media using on-demand technologies.
The managing editor of EU Ticket News, Adriana Hamacher is a highly-skilled, professional broadcast journalist and award winning writer who works with the BBC and has also written for NME and Mixmag magazines.
For BBC television and radio, she has worked in producing, editing and writing foreign news and human interest programmes, features and bulletins; studio producing and presenting music and youth programmes. She has also worked with high profile subjects such as legendary sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem (Discovery Channel interview), British artist Mark Quinn (Mentorn TV feature) and techno wizards, the Prodigy (Mixmag Feature) and was awarded IPC Feature Writer of the Year 1990 – in competition with journalists and writers from 100+ publications.
Managing Director - Groningen, Netherlands
Richard Kastelein - Linkedin Profile
C-level strategist with several start-ups with strong skills in Social
Media and Social TV Architecture and Analysis - Community/SNS building
using Open Source technology. New Media publishing and remodeled old
school print media using on-demand technologies. Top notch
communicator.
Adept team player - a publisher, writer, photographer, marketing
director, web developer and graphic designer with more than 20 years
experience in the development and operation of newspapers, magazines,
web media and marketing of multinational, companies in international
settings.
Managing Editor- London, UK
Adriana Hamacher - Linkedin Profile
Highly skilled broadcast journalist and award winning writer.
Broad media experience including:
* BBC Television and Radio: producing, editing and writing foreign news
and human interest programmes, features and bulletins; studio producing
and presenting music and youth programmes.
* Working with high profile subjects such as legendary sci-fi writer
Stanislaw Lem (Discovery Channel interview), British artist Mark Quinn
(Mentorn TV feature) and techno wizards, the Prodigy (Mixmag Feature).
* Awarded IPC Feature Writer of the Year 1990 - in competition with journalists and writers from 100+ publications.
* Huge subject range: from science and technology to Africa and the Far East.
* Familiarity with new media: taking projects from research stage,
through to shooting, directing and editing for transmission on the web.
Contributor - Germany - Groningen, Netherlands
Brenda van de Wal - Linkedin Profile
Brenda van de Wal - a Germanist based in The Netherlands - has an MA in German studies from the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and covers the German, Swiss and Austrian markets for EU Ticket News.
She has been a professional translator for a number of years and is also actively involved with Dutch-German cultural exchange group Buro05.
Contributor - Italy - Groningen, Netherlands

Bruno Crema - Linkedin
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Bruno Crema - a Italian marketing executive based in The Netherlands - Bruno covers the Italian market for EU Ticket News and has worked for a number of European start-ups in marketing, affiliate strategies and brand building.
His love of music and quirky sense of humour, coupled with his in-depth knowledge of the events market in Italy are a welcome addition to the team and he's the eyes and ears for EUTN in the Italian market.
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