Resale: "Non Transferable" Tickets, Taylor Swift, and More.
'Fans For Life' in NYC is on sale now!
Hi!
I’m working on some long-form content right now.
What would you like to learn more about:
If you don’t see a choice here, reply and let me know what you want to learn about…especially regarding the secondary market.
Fans For Life in NYC: The sales page is live!
For you, I’ve put up a special deal that will expire in 48 hours…you’ll have to go to the page to find it.
What is ‘Fans for Life’?
It is my foundational ticket workshop.
We hit on all the important things like:
Branding
Strategy before tactics
Brand Codes
Discounts are for dummies
And, much more.
I’ll be putting this on in Australia in November.
And, if the demand is there, I have 2 July open in London. But you have to let me know so I can book the space.
404 Media looks at how brokers get around ‘non-transferable’ tickets:
This builds off of my recent podcast with Martin Haigh on what brokers love to see when tickets go on sale.
As I’ve told you in the past, the brokers will find a way.
Join us in the Slack Channel.
Almost 350 ticket folks from around the world.
Candace Parker is the President of Adidas’s women’s basketball division:
I was asked about the move and what it might mean for the brand.
Live Nation was a big player at “Nerd Prom”:
Many things are out of touch about DC, the White House Correspondent’s Dinner might be the most out-of-touch thing.
But it is a week of parties and schmoozing that Live Nation got in on.
This piece looks at the topic.
A good companion to this is Grace Blakeley’s conversation about her new book, Vulture Capitalism.
In her book, Ms. Blakeley talks about how the dominance of large corporations is supposed to be efficient, but we are seeing that this new breed of large corporations doesn’t act like what economics consider normal monopolies.
But a few things that will feel familiar to you:
They can charge more.
They pay less to suppliers.
Drive costs down.
Eliminate the ability for others to enter the market.
Where’s the biggest place the squeeze happens?
Labor costs.
Just looking at the gig economy, these jobs have driven real wages down 22%.
Lynn Gardner asks “are we doing enough to support the future of the arts?”
The ideas here go hand-in-hand with the idea above about the squeeze from big businesses.
Artists are putting on sold out runs that are still losing money.
This has also been the case in concerts at small & medium size venues.
David Brooks looks at why Taylor Swift tickets are cheaper in Europe than in the United States:
There isn’t one thing, but many.
The biggest one is consumer protection laws and the feelings on ticket resale in the EU v. US.
Don’t forget: I’m in London from 28 June to 7 July.
Let me know if a ‘Fans For Life’ workshop in London would be of interest. Plus, I’m looking at doing a 2 July Happy Hour.