Our fees are too high. We can’t defend them,” Michael Rapino, Live Nation’s longtime head, told a band manager in 2016, ...
The Guardian reported that Ticketmaster collects an average of $7.58 per ticket sold at major venues. According to an analysis cited by Jonathan Hatch, a New York attorney, fans in the states seeking ...
From presale hoops to rising fees, the modern ticket-buying experience is frustrating fans while a monopoly battle plays out behind the scenes.
Today on Commotion, policy expert Vass Bednar and musician Rollie Pemberton join host Elamin Abdelmahmoud to discuss how Live Nation dominates the industry, and what this means for the price of ...
Jack Groetzinger, who co-founded ticketer SeatGeek in 2009, said he started reporting Ticketmaster’s “illegal conduct” to the Department of Justice in 2016.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino thinks concerts are too cheap, actually. - Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The comments from Rapino came ...
Grammy winning country music star Zach Bryan so disliked Live Nation Entertainment Inc. and its ticket selling unit that he tried to avoid the company’s concert venues on his 2023 tour and even ...
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Justice Department lawyer told jurors at a civil antitrust trial Tuesday that the concert industry is broken because Ticketmaster and its parent Live Nation Entertainment have ...
Some operators of Maryland independent concert venues say a tentative settlement of a federal antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and parent company Live Nation Entertainment isn’t enough to ...
is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content ...
With more people itching to see their favorite artists perform live in a post-pandemic world, the price of concert tickets has skyrocketed. But not all hope is lost: There are still ways to find and ...
Concert tickets have skyrocketed since the pandemic, and live music venues and artists are beholden to booking agents and ...