Posts Tagged ‘Tickets.com’
Comcast to Buy Paciolan from Ticketmaster
Here’s the news. The basic deal is that as part of the smoothing of the past for Live Nation to merge with Ticketmaster, they had to divest Paciolan, which Ticketmaster bought a couple years ago. Here’s my take on this. Wow, Comcast is getting serious. I was at the Montgomery Technology Conference yesterday and bumped [...]
AEG Considering New Ticketing Partner
As I said back in March, the potential Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger has an interesting effect on AEG: ” To Live Nation, they’re competitors in the sense that AEG Live is in the concert business, but of course, Live Nation is also a customer of its venues. They’re a customer of Ticketmaster for ticketing in all [...]
AEG to TM and Live Nation: “What Are We, Chopped Liver?”
Anschutz Entertainment Group (known as AEG) is one of those companies that quietly just kicks butt on a day to day basis without drawing undue attention to itself. AEG not only has a significant concert division (AEG Live), but it also built and developed the Staples Center (where the Lakers, Clippers, Kings, and Sparks play, [...]
Revising My Opinion on the LN-TM Merger
Actually, not my opinion of it, but of whether or not it will actually be allowed to take place by the DOJ. Initially, I felt that it was about 80 to 90% likely to go through, on the basic grounds that even this combined company wouldn’t have monopolistic pricing power because the market is much [...]
Innovation, with Mustard and Relish
Ok, ok, it’s a press release and not a true news story, but read this anyway. Here’s the key tidbit: “Tickets.com and closed loop card technologies provider Givex conducted a successful pilot of their stored value technology, Uptix(TM), at the Giants 16th Annual FanFest at AT&T Park in San Francisco.” Translating that out of Press [...]
Ticketnation? Live Master? The Biggies Talk Merger
This is monster news in our business, so despite my pre-occupation with TED this week, I have to stop and talk about this. Here’s the key snippet: “Ticketmaster Entertainment and Live Nation — two of the most powerful companies in the music business — could be merging as soon as next week, according to a [...]
Steve Jobs: The Great Innovator
Why would Steve Jobs be the subject of a post on a site called Live 2.0 about the rise and dominance of the live entertainment business? After all, isn’t he the father of the ipodosphere, the antithesis of a Live-driven world? Yes, he is, and people in the live business should thank him for that. [...]
It’s Official: The Ticketmaster-uber-alles Era is Over
Not exactly news, but now that 2009 has dawned, Live Nation is no longer using Ticketmaster in its non-House of Blues venues. Will the world change? My answer to that is complicated, but comes down to this: No, and it already has. No, because Live Nation is essentially replacing one system with another, and in [...]
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