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
Flunked streaming music firm Guvera is being investigated by the Australian Securities And Investments Commission over allegations it misled inexperienced investors who have been left wondering what happened to the $180 million that was pumped into the company.
As previously reported, Australia-based Guvera finally crashed out of business last month. The company had never really recovered from its failed attempt at an Initial Public Offering a year ago, when the Australian Securities Exchange...
Posted on: 28/06/2017Categories: News from CMU Online
Hey, so you remember that week when Ed Sheeran pretty much took up the entire UK top 20 singles chart, and everyone said the charts were broken and the Official Charts Company should do something about it? Well, the Official Charts Company has done something about it. It's made everything slightly more complicated. Hooray!
The last big change in the singles chart was back in 2014 when streaming data was first added to it. There it was deemed that 100 plays of any track was equivalent to...
Posted on: 28/06/2017Categories: News from CMU Online