Ticketing

While the vitriol surrounding scalping and the secondary market is at an all-time high, perhaps a reeducation is needed about what a ticket means in the current music industry landscape, and more…

Fair Trading Minister Matt Kean has vowed to halt the use of technology in ticket scalping, outlining plans to ban the use of automated bots to buy large quantities of tickets, to resell at inflated…

Forget legislation, the free market can clean up the mess created by ticket scalpers. That’s the opinion of the live industry’s top exec, Live Nation president/CEO Michael Rapino. “As long as the…

Ticket scalping has become a scourge on the music industry, both in Australia and overseas. But fighting the scalpers - and the bots - isn't a simple thing to do, reports JOSEPH EARP. Bots And…