When a popular event is placed on sale, Skiddle can receive up to 20,000% more traffic than usual, due to the high demand. This extra traffic can also be quite unpredictable – with many customers hitting ‘refresh/f5’ to get access to tickets the minute they go on sale. As such, the demand on our servers…
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Image: Flickr Four people have been arrested as part of an operation designed to tackle ticket touting, the Guardian reports. The eCrime unit of National Trading Standards (NTS) was behind the raids, seizing computers and other digital devices as part of the sting which will hopefully see some of the shadiest protagonists in touting put behind…
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Here’s a big win for music fans! From January 2018, secondary ticketing websites like Viagogo, StubHub and Get Me In! will be subject to much stricter rules and regulations around online advertising. In a bid to crack down on secondary outlets acting like official sellers, Google will now restrict their use of Google AdWords to stop…
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Photo: Ed Sheeran Following the release of yesterday’s budget, it seems the government are serious about tackling the controversial practices of secondary ticketing companies like StubHub, Get Me In and Viagogo. The new proposals follow Prime Minister Theresa May’s response to a question by Nigel Adams at PMQs about Viagogo selling tickets to a cancer…
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Photo: Bongo’s Bingo Despite only launching in December last year, Waiting List has already enjoyed enormous success with thousands of fans managing to bag tickets to sold out events. It’s also been benefiting promoters who use the feature as returned and resold tickets go directly to genuine fans automatically, while the secondary ticketing market is…
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Image: Ed Sheeran In what might be one of the most unsavoury developments in secondary ticketing yet, tickets for a sold-out charity concert Ed Sheeran will be performing at have appeared on re-sell websites for extortionate prices. Sheeran, who is no stranger to being targetted by touts, will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall…
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Image: Justin Bieber The House of Lords has proposed a number of changes to the Digital Economy Bill, which would have grave consequences for touts. The amendments (which you can read here) look to be a clear firming of the government’s policy towards the morality of secondary selling, the key one being people being outlawed…
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UK music site Getintothis, the good folk behind the GIT Award, have published an excellent investigative piece into the secondary ticketing market which involves interviews with music promoters, Ticketmaster, and our Head of Content & Communication Jimmy Coultas. It’s a well-rounded assessment of what the practice causes on the impact secondary selling has on the music…
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Photo: Ed Sheeran Ed Sheeran fans from across the UK and Ireland have been voicing their anger and frustration on Twitter following the record-breaking artist’s announced tour, his first in over a year. The naturally high demand tickets reportedly sold out in under ten minutes, with countless fans losing out to touts. Hundreds of tickets…
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Photo: Olly Murs The ticket resale business has reached such a state where it’s almost unsurprising to see how much music fans are being ripped off, but these latest figures delivered by Netvouchers.co.uk, based on figures gleaned from Ticketmaster and its resale websites, are enough to make even the most detached observer’s eyes water. The research…
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