Rudimental's is interesting though: it promises exclusive content, ticket pre-sales and other goodies direct from the band.
Then sign up, upload some content (tag your photos #vicekills), and the BO.LT guys will pick winners until the tickets are all gone.
The stats have been encouraging and it spurs us on to create more exclusive content for ticket buyers prior to the show, such as secret clues and background info, knowing that people are interested in checking out the lay of the land before attending.
Today, Imdb makes money a variety of ways: from advertising, selling publicity photos, licensing its content, selling movie tickets through partners and offering a premium Imdb Pro service (started in 2002).
Surveying Disney's list of mergers, one element that stands out is the company's willingness to spend to acquire big-ticket content.
Eventful has content but not ticketing.
Track Entertainment providing content, advertising and ticket sales for nightclub events, as well as marketing and production for larger rock and pop concerts netted "low six figures" on revenue of $16.7 million in 2004.
Since the service is a young beta, and is two weeks from launch thus it is light on ticketing content and has a few wrinkles, but they should be ironed out in the beta period.
HBO has to some extent addressed its plans on this front, saying it understands how it's important to have a wide range of offerings for streaming service users – not just top performers like "Game of Thrones," but also other content, like big-ticket dramas, documentaries, and sports programs, for example.
The new pages, which will begin in private beta form in May and are to open fully this summer, will allow artists to post their own content, and sell music, tickets or merchandise.
