Ticket mastersDean Budnick
Ticket masters
by Dean Budnick · first published 2012
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Read the book Ticket Masters. Explains how they've basically formed a monopoly via their merger with LiveNation - Ticket Master controls all major venues and thus all ticketing systems. https://www.amazon.com/Ticket-Masters-Concert-Industry-Scalp...
on “Ask HN: Why is it so hard to disrupt Ticketmaster?” ↗…'bad guys'. If the status quo was really a problem for the big artists (not all) then alternatives would emerge. If you want to learn all about it, this book does a good job: https://www.amazon.com/Ticket-Masters-Concert-Industry-Scalp...
on “Blink-182 tickets are so expensive because Ticketmaster is a monopoly” ↗…$10 and give you $8 of it, but you need to sign a multiyear contract and we sell ALL your tickets). If you're keenly interested in this, you should read the very excellent and recently published book Ticket Masters goes through all of the history and mechanics in great detail. Immediately upon finishing you should come work for me at Ticketfly in San Francisco where we're solving these sorts of problems on a daily…
on “Ticketmaster: Rocking The Most Hated Brand In America” ↗