In 2009, the year before Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged, TicketsNow, a secondary ticketing marketplace owned by Ticketmaster, became the focus of national attention when Bruce Springsteen fans looking for tickets directly from the box office were instead pointed to expensive scalped offerings on TicketsNow.
Or a pro sports team (yep, some of those teams are part of Canopy Labs' customer base) could merge ticketing, stadium, email and website data to understand where fans like to sit and then direct their marketing messages accordingly.
In June 2016, Songkick merged with artist-ticketing service Crowdsurge in an attempt to break Ticketmaster's hold on the market.
Songkick merged with the ticketing startup CrowdSurge in June. .
Songkick, the concert discovery app and ticketing company (after it merged with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge), has raised a further $10 million in funding from previous backer Access Industries, owner of WMG.
Despite its CEO declaring that secondary ticketing should be illegal, Live Nation merged with Ticketmaster, which owns secondary ticketing traders GetMeIn!
Ticket counters and gates merged several months ago at Los Angeles International Airport.
Once before, in 2002, U.S. and European antitrust regulators nixed BA and American plans to merge operations like ticketing and scheduling by insisting on their giving up 224 lucrative takeoff and landing slots at the London airport.
ASSOCIATED PRESS Airlines Get Creative With Revenue | Continental Airlines, which merged with United last year, has been selling options on ticket prices, as the industry as a whole looks for new ways to earn profit, The New York Times reports.
Mark Sullivan, group publisher of the VNU Sports Group in Manhattan, said both factors merged in his refusal to renew his two $56 tickets for the Knicks' 41 home games.
