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The boss of Ticketmaster UK has told MPs tickets are" very fairly priced". Andrew Parsons was appearing before the Business and Trade Select Committee, after fans slammed his company's "dynamic ...
Taylor Swift performing on the Eras Tour in 2023. Ticketmaster received criticism for mishandling the U.S. ticket sale of the tour.. The American ticket sales platform Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment were met with widespread public criticism and political scrutiny over blunders in selling tickets to the 2023 United States leg of the Eras Tour, the sixth concert ...
“Once you take Ticketmaster out, that still doesn’t solve the underlying problems around fees and exclusives. If Ticketmaster is a separate company, they'll still be entitled to do all of that.”
United States, et al. v. Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, LLC is an antitrust lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and twenty-nine states and Washington, D.C., against entertainment company Live Nation Entertainment and its subsidiary Ticketmaster, following the Taylor Swift–Ticketmaster controversy in 2022.
Ticketmaster was founded in Phoenix, Arizona in 1976 [5] by college staffers Peter Gadwa and Albert Leffler, Gordon Gunn III, as well as businessman Jerry Nelson. [6] [7] The company originally licensed computer programs and sold hardware for ticketing systems.
Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. is an American multinational entertainment company that was founded in 2010 following the merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster.It promotes, operates and manages ticket sales for live entertainment internationally.
Ticketmaster and Live Nation want a judge to boot 27 states from the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit. The event goliath argued Wednesday that the states can't prove a direct injury to their residents.
The measure was taken in response to ticket scalping and resale markup of tickets on secondary markets and adopted during Miley Cyrus (2009) World Wonder Tour, although Ticketmaster first experimented it with AC/DC's Black Ice World Tour (2008–10). [3] [4] Ticketmaster has since changed the name of the system to "Credit Card Entry". The ...