For outdoor event-goers, weather can be both a blessing and a curse. While a sunny day can make for a perfect concert or festival, the prospect of rain or extreme heat can leave ticket-holders second-guessing their purchases. Enter Sensible Weather, a provider of weather-related protection...
A new lawsuit brought by fans of Taylor Swift and other musicians reportedly accuses Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, of colluding with other organizations to drive up ticket prices. The plaintiffs allege that this conduct violates the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, as...
Drip pricing, or added fees consumers only learn about at checkout, are coming under fire from consumer groups as proposed rules make their way through Congress. In the context of live event ticketing, the practice of drip pricing is “problematic because it can lead to...
SeatGeek has reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO). The event ticketing firm is making the move as people continue to return to concerts and sporting events after the pandemic, and it expects its revenue to top $500 million this year, The Information...
March 25, 2019
The current best-in-class method of payment for a ride on a subway in any American city works just fine – until it doesn’t. Loading funds onto a prepaid card that opens the turnstile once scanned, swiped or inserted works terrifically well – until the customer forgets to check the balance on his transit pass, and finds himself […]
December 22, 2025
Ticketing platform StubHub has launched an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company said the partnership, announced Monday (Dec. 22), makes Stubhub one of the first businesses of its kind to launch an app on ChatGPT with a discovery experience and lets fans replace “tab-switching and manual filtering with a conversational assistant that understands what you’re […]
November 18, 2024
A new lawsuit brought by fans of Taylor Swift and other musicians reportedly accuses Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, of colluding with other organizations to drive up ticket prices. The...
April 19, 2023
SeatGeek has reportedly filed confidentially for an initial public offering (IPO). The event ticketing firm is making the move as people continue to return to concerts and sporting events after...
August 10, 2022
Streaming music service Spotify is making another venture into live music with plans to sell concert tickets directly to fans instead of linking to outside ticket companies. As Music Ally...