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Concert Tickets

Music Industry 

Look out: I’m about to defend Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing policy

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Bruce Springsteen, Concert Tickets, Dynamic Pricing, Scalpers, Secondary Market, Ticketmaster

[This was my column for GlobalNews.ca this week. – AC] Earlier this summer, Bruce Springsteen fans were shocked to find

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Weekly survey: What do you think of Ticketmaster’s “dynamic pricing” model for concert tickets?

August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bruce Sprinsgteen, Concert Tickets, Dynamic Pricing, Scalpers, Secondary Market, Ticketmaster

Wait. Back up. Maybe before we get into this week’s survey question, everyone should read what I wrote on the

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Music News 

Spotify is now selling concert tickets as an experiment

August 12, 2022August 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Experiment, Live Events, Marketing, Spotify, Ticketmaster

On Wednesday (August 10), Spotify unveiled a new website that allows users to buy concert tickets directly from Spotify instead

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Music Industry 

Here’s an explanation of why concert tickets are so expensive this summer

July 19, 2022July 19, 2022 Alan Cross 4 Comments Concert Tickets, Facility Fees, Inflation, Service Fees

Just like the price of gas and the chaos at airports, the cost of concert tickets is a global issue.

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Weekly survey: How much is too much for a concert ticket?

July 18, 2022July 18, 2022 Alan Cross 3 Comments Concert Tickets, Prices

Yes, live music is back. And yes, tickets are way more expensive than in the Before-Times. Drake expects people to

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Music Industry 

No, it’s not your imagination. Concert tickets are WAY more expensive this summer.

July 17, 2022July 17, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Drake, Kendrick Lamar, OVO, Red Hot Chili Peppers

After a couple of years of being sidelined by the COVID pandemic, the live music industry has roared back to

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Survey 

Weekly survey: Should we go back to paper concert tickets?

July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Outage, Rogers, The Weeknd

Chunks of the country are still trying to recover from the Big Rogers Outage of 2002 on Friday. I feel

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Weekly survey: Is inflation cutting into your concert spending?

June 13, 2022June 14, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Concerts, Cost of Living, Inflation

Over the weekend, I had no choice but to get some gas. By the time the numbers stopped spinning and

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Music Industry 

The average concert ticket in Toronto now costs $121. But is anyone really surprised? (I’m shocked it’s that low.)

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments Concert Tickets, Prices

A report in the Toronto Star reveals that the average price of a concert ticket in the city is $121.

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Music News 

Random music news for Saturday, March 12, 2022

March 12, 2022March 12, 2022 Alan Cross 0 Comments AM Radio, Amazon, CDs, Compact Discs, Concert Tickets, Eurovision, Kim Kardashian, Lars Ulrich, Muppets, Paul Stanley, Playlists, Russia, Song Catalogues, TikTok, Ukraine

Does anyone else find it strange that news networks will show the uncut carnage from Ukraine but if there’s any

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Music Industry 

Live Nation introduces “digital ticket stubs” NFTs

November 1, 2021November 1, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments Collectibles, Concert Tickets, Live Nation, Live Stubs, NFTs, Ticket Stubs

As the live event industry moves more and more towards digital tickets, I’ve heard many complaints from old-schoolers who have

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