![]() ![]() ![]() You have the more traditional, experienced providers who have their brand firmly planted in consumers’ minds, offering large databases and sturdy systems, but then there are the newer start-ups, like us, with cutting-edge technology offering a more client-first approach.” “There are more agencies than ever before each vying for the same business. “All sectors of the market are fiercely competitive,” agrees Lisa Brown, client services director for Ticket Arena. “Go back only five to six years and the market was solely dominated by the big companies, but now it seems like smaller companies spring up every week to offer niche solutions.Īs the bigger companies are getting more and more control over artists, the fight for the rest of the tickets out there is becoming much more intense.” “The industry, especially in the UK, is hugely competitive,” remarks Dale Ballentine, development director of Eventim UK, subsidiary of German giant CTS Eventim. That ever-growing list includes Ticketmaster, Eventim, Amazon Tickets, Vibe, See Tickets, AXS, Eventbrite, Skiddle, Dice, Ticket Arena, Gigantic, .uk, The Ticket Factory, Twickets, Ticketweb and WeGotTickets, to name but a few. No other aspect of the live business finds itself in the news quite so frequently (admittedly, not always in a positive way, but more on that later), and with the concert market booming, it’s no surprise to see more and more competitors battling for a piece of the pie. If that’s true, then the ticketing industry is definitely doing something right. Oscar Wilde once quipped that there is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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