Fee Free Friday, your weekly summary of the controversy surrounding ticket fees, it hot off the press! The Minnesota state senate has voted on a highly charged ticketing bill. Lollapalooza tickets evaporate in minutes and someone is very unhappy about that. And the ticket scalping debate rages on in Houston, Texas. All that and the Divine Tragedy that…
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The competition for control of your event’s shared experience is heating up. Twitter, Gather and BuzzMob offer to help you participate, monetize, and in some causes, control your event’s experience. With so many companies and apps trying to profit from your event’s experience, the hard working venue owner should ask: “Am I making the most…
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Fee Free Friday is back with the TMZ-style news of outrageous ticket fees and services charges. This week, more than one major media outlet has called the ticket sales for Kraftwerk at the Tate Modern museum a “fiasco” and we find out why. We also find some very, very unhappy New York Yankee fans standing on top…
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The recession’s effect on entertainment ticket sales is shared across all venues and geographic regions, but nowhere is it felt more than Nascar auto racing. Nascar draws its fans from a largely blue collar and predominantly male work force, the two demographics hit hardest by the recession. Even the celebrated removal of the ban on…
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