Indie Ticketing Platform Eventbrite Passes $1B Sales
Independent ticketing platform Eventbrite announced today that it has issued tickets and registrations totaling $1 billion in cumulative sales. The self-service ticketing platform that is available to artists, concert promoters. Continue reading
Ticketmaster Offers Deep Discounts On Many Summer Concert Tours
This morning Ticketmaster announced deep discounts on many of the summer's top concert tours. Discounts for shows at many of Live Nation's top sheds and outdoor venues are being offered. Continue reading
Bandsintown & Eventric Partner For VIP Tickets & Merch Sales
Bandsintown is teaming up with Eventric to provide special ticket and merch sales via artist's Bandsintown tour dates page on Facebook. Called Specials, the service leverages Eventric's Live Access VIP. Continue reading
Connecting Music & Tech At Decibel Festival And MoSoFEST
From the 9th Annual Decibel Festival in Seattle to the newly launched MoSoFEST Conference and Festival in Saskatoon, musc and tech are connecting in a variety of ways that feature. Continue reading
A Place For Jazz: Moving Beyond Audience Development
A discussion broke out on the web about building audiences for jazz. It began at the Huffington Post (with a blogged prelude elsewhere) and continued on NPR at A Blog. Continue reading
Hypebot Presents The Upward Spiral Podcast Episode 2 [LISTEN]
Hypebot presents the second episode of The Upward Spiral Podcast, which features Kyle Bylin of Live Nation Labs (and former Hypebot Editor), music industry consultant Jason Spitz (Former Director of. Continue reading
Overheard @ EDMbiz in Las Vegas: Day 1
EDMbiz, the inaugural industry conference for electronic dance music and precursor to this weekend’s massive Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC), is well underway at the Cosmopolitan Hotel in Las Vegas. Our. Continue reading
Louisiana Soundtrack Heralds Cutting Edge Conference In NOLA
Though they are entirely separate events, the launch of multimedia site Louisiana Soundtrack and plans for the Cutting Edge music business conference in New Orleans are certainly connected. The Louisiana. Continue reading
SFX/Live Nation Founder Bob Sillerman Betting $1 Billion On Electronic Dance Music
It's just about the only thing that the industry crowd gathered in Las Vegas for EDMbiz wants to talk about. Media mogul Robert F. X. Sillerman, who launched the concert. Continue reading
Concert Promoters AEG Pacts With LivingSocial For Discounts & Premiums
Concert and event promoters AEG has signed a deal with LivingSocial that gives members access to seats at AEG owned and promoted events and venues across the country. The agreement. Continue reading