Category Archive: Touting News



01
Apr

What is the Skiddle Queue?

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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09
Mar

What The Budget could mean for ticket touts

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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01
Mar

Waiting List Explained

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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19
Feb

Viagogo accused of “moral repugnance” after Ed Sheeran charity tickets appear on site with excessive mark up

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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07
Feb

Skiddle contributes to GIT piece on touting

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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