Ticket marketplace Viagogo announces tennis deal, strong Q1 results
Viagogo, the online marketplace where anyone can buy or sell tickets for live events, announced today that it is partnering with the French Tennis Federation to create a special ticket exchange channel for tennis, making it the first secondary ticketing platform to land a deal… Continue Reading
LiveStub hopes to nuke StubHub, others, with commission-free scalping
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Thanks to the internet, selling tickets on the secondary ticket market — the act formerly known as scalping — has gone legit. EBay bought the market pioneer, StubHub, for $310 million. TicketMaster dropped $265 million to get its hands on TicketsNow, and top-tier VC firm… Continue Reading
Ticketmaster to buy ticket reseller TicketsNow for $265M
Ticketmaster, the large ticket seller, said it would buy entertainment event ticket reseller TicketsNow for $265 million.
Ticketmaster has long been the monster of ticket sales, but it has been greedy, charging high fees for its service, and now it is facing increasing competition. Even this… Continue Reading
TicketsNow raises $34 million for event tickets onlie
TicketsNow, the Chicago-based online marketplace for reselling event tickets, has raised $34 million from a group of investors.
TicketsNow competes against players like Stubhub.com, RazorGator and TicketLiquidator.com, places where you can buy tickets for events from people who already have bought the tickets — and good… Continue Reading