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Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: Featured Client Profiles
A petition calling for Government legislation to "end the robbery of real fans" by secondary ticketing websites has been launched.
Using the #stopticketabuse, the petition names sites such as Viagogo, eBay-owned StubHub and Ticketmaster-owned Seatwave as websites where organisers claim fans are being held to ransom by touts, who as well as indulging in resale, list tickets that are banned from resale and sell fake tickets.
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Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: News from Audience Magazine
Venue operator AEG Europe is working with white-label mobile platform LiveStyled to develop apps for a selection of its arenas.
The first venue-branded app will be launched in the UK at The O2 (cap. 20,000) in London, followed by The SSE Arena, Wembley (cap. 12,750), also in the capital, and then at Germany's Barclaycard Arena (16,000) in Hamburg and Mercedes-Benz Arena (17,000) in Berlin.
Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: News from Audience Magazine
Andre Lieberberg, president of Live Nation Germany (LNG) and Melvin Benn, MD of UK multi-event promoter Festival Republic, will be sharing their industry expertise with delegates at Hamburg's Reeperbahn conference and music festival.
Lieberberg, who moved to LNG with his father Marek after leaving promoter MLK a year ago, will be joined with LNG MD and chief operating officer Matt Schwarz during the conference section.
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Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: News from Audience Magazine
Promoter and agency Fullsteam has acquired domestic hip hop and pop act promoter Rähinä Live.
As part of the deal, Rähinä's CEO Mika Sorola and agent Sami Siilin join Helsinki-based Fullsteam, which is majority owned by German pan-Europe festival promoter FKP Scorpio Konzertproduktionen.
Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: News from Audience Magazine
The merger of two of the country's biggest ticketing companies Ticketcorner and Starticket has been vetoed by its Federal Competition Commission.
Wetthewerbskommission (Weko) ruled the creation of a joint company would give the operation a monopoly on ticket sales.
The merger, announced in November, would have involved 75 per cent of the firm being owned by Ticketcorner's parent companies, Germany-based ticketing giant CTS Eventim and Swiss media group Ringier, with Starticket...
Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: News from Audience Magazine
Promoters behind some of the country's biggest music events are taking legal action against performance rights organisation Societe d'Auteurs Belge Auteurs Maatschappij (SABAM) over its tariff rise for festivals and concerts.
Introduced on 1 January, the new rate sees festivals generating over €3.2 million ($3.6m) paying 3.5 per cent, up from 2.5 per cent, while shows generating more than €400,000 ($448,971) have seen an increase from 4.5 per cent to 5.75 per cent.
Posted on: 29/06/2017Categories: News from Audience Magazine
The inaugural Spanish edition of the famed rock/metal festival was welcomed by a community 'crying out for an event of this magnitude in the capital', says LN Spain.
More than 100,000 people attended last weekend's inaugural Download Madrid, exceeding the expectations of Live Nation Spain and cementing the event as one of Spain's "rock and metal festivals of reference", says the promoter.
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Posted on: 28/06/2017Categories: News from IQ Magazine
A record-high 21m people tuned into BBC Music's coverage of Glastonbury 2017, with Ed Sheeran's set also achieving record viewership for a BBC Glasto programme.
The BBC's 21st year covering Glastonbury Festival was also most successful, the corporation announced today, with BBC Music's television and online coverage of the event reaching a record audience of almost 21 million.
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Posted on: 28/06/2017Categories: News from IQ Magazine
A storm on Thursday notwithstanding, Mother Nature was kinder to FKP's twin festivals this year, with 138,000 people lapping up the German sun.
FKP Scorpio founder Folkert Koopmans has hailed the success of this year's Hurricane and Southside festivals, which last weekend made a triumphant, (mostly) sunny return after a disastrous 2016.
Posted on: 28/06/2017Categories: News from IQ Magazine