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Ontario’s proposed concert ticket legislation is dumb and doomed to fail

May 11, 2018 Alan Cross 2 Comments Concert Tickets, Scalping, Secondary Market, StubHub, Ticketmaster

After a couple of years of consultations, the Ontario Government’s legislation regarding tickets for concerts, sporting events, and theatre productions

Music News

Random music news for Thursday, April 19, 2018

April 19, 2018April 18, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple, Audiophiles, Bono, CBC, Drake, Facebook, KEXP, Prince, Record Store Day, Rolling Stones, Scalping, Sloan, Syria, Texture, Whistling

If you’re in Toronto, I’m holding another one of my Music Tech meetups TONIGHT at the Toronto Reference Library. There’s

Music News

Random music news for Thursday, March 8, 2018

March 8, 2018March 7, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments Apple Music, British Columbia, Concert Tickets, Cranberries, Dolores O'Riordan, Drum Machine, Flaming Lips, Fred Durst, Fyre Festival, iPhone, John Travolta, Leonard Cohen, Limp Bizkit, Pussy Riot, Roland, Scalping, Tommy Lee, Wayne Coyne

Happy International Women’s Day! Remember that as you peruse the music news for March 8, 2018 There will be one

Music History

Ticket Scalping Won’t Ever Go Away. Here’s Why.

August 2, 2017 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bots, Scalping, Touts

The history of scalping tickets to events goes back more than hundred years and perhaps even longer. Can’t you imagine

Music Industry

Newport Folk Festival Still Rocking the (Ticket Selling) Boat

May 11, 2017May 11, 2017 Amber Healy 0 Comments Bots, Eventbrite, Lyte, Newport Folk Festival, Scalping, Secondary Market, Tickets

The Newport Folk Festival is legendary. Not only is the place where Bob Dylan plugged in and went electric, it’s

Music Industry

The UK Gets More Serious About Abuse in the Concert Ticket World

November 25, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Bots, Scalping

The whole planet has a problem with concert tickets. How can we make sure that robots don’t elbow us meatbags

Music News

How Secondary Ticket Sellers Get Around Ticketmaster’s Credit Card Pickup Rule

November 25, 2016November 25, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Scalping, Secondary Market

If you’ve ever bought tickets for a concert on Ticketmaster, you may have run across the following caution: All tickets

Music News

Tickets to Metallica’s Opera House Show are Going for HOW MUCH on Secondary Sites? You’re Kidding…

November 24, 2016 Alan Cross 8 Comments Metallica, Opera House, Scalping, Secondary Ticket Market

Mike really wanted tickets to Metallica’s Daily Bread Food Bank benefit show at the Opera House in Toronto this coming

Music News

Random Music News for Tuesday, November 22, 2016

November 22, 2016November 21, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments AC/DC, Adele, Black Sabbath, Bots, Brian Johnson, Iron Man, JFK, Kanye West, Presidents of the United States of America, Scalping, Soundgarden, Spotify, The Edge

JFK day. And now, the music news. Here’s a fun story on branding radio stations “The Edge.” Let’s review some

Music News

All the Tragically Hip Tickets are Gone. The Only Thing to Do Now is Move On–Or Pay Up.

June 3, 2016June 5, 2016 Alan Cross 5 Comments Bots, Scalpers, Scalping, StubHub, Tickets, Tragically Hip

Did you get Hip tickets? Did you even try? Or did you give up in disgust and frustration? Let’s be

Podcast

Geeks and Beats Podcast, Episode 137: Scooby Snacks

February 3, 2016February 3, 2016 Alan Cross 1 Comment B.o.B., Coffee, David Bowie, El Macombo, Flat Earth Society, Lisa Oake, Lou Schizas, Making a Murder, Michael Wekerle, Michael Yurkovich, Passwords, Pearl Jam, Scalping, Singapore, Ticketmaster, web design, Will

I’m back home now, but the last two weeks’ worth of podcasts were done from hotel rooms, one in London

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Gamifying the Movie Theatre Experience – Aaron Silverberg in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 031 May 9, 2021
People yearn for live experiences that they can share with others. Though fan and crowd-based events such as sports and concerts may be the source of most of our FOMO, movie theatres are even more appealing. Although the film may be the main attraction, movie theatre owners are constantly looking for new ways to maximize […]
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Revenue Architects… Beyond the : 30-second spot – Derek Myers, Christos Nikitopoulos, Kevin Worsley in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 030 May 4, 2021
Well behind the scenes in the media business lurks smart folks who really know their way around a spreadsheet. They’re the ones who have charted out and flighted all the commercials, billboards, features and other innovative forms of sponsor integration. We’re of course referring to… revenue management. If you’ve never heard of this career path, […]
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King of the Deal – Phil King in conversation with TBP Podcast EP 029 April 26, 2021
Sports fans today can watch more games and global competitions than we could have possibly imagined, even 20 years ago. For those of us that can remember, which generally means Boomers and Gen-X, there really weren’t many sports to watch until the advent of pay-TV in the mid-80s, which saw the dawn of specialty channels […]
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