Ticketfly, the independent ticket company that Eventbrite acquired for $200 million from Pandora in 2017, has now been absorbed within the Eventbrite platform. The main Ticketfly.com URL now redirects to Eventbrite.com. "You can still purchase tickets to all of the best upcoming shows at your favorite venues on Eventbrite.com or…
Category archives: Live & Touring
How To Use Bandsintown To Reach Your Fans For Free
As the world’s most popular concert discovery app, Bandsintown delivers info on live shows to more than 100 million music fans each month. Impressive numbers, but the burning question is how do you reach your fans? Fans "track" artists on Bandsintown much as they follow them on social media or…
Anonymous Survey To Measure Music Industry Bias, Harassment: TAKE THE SURVEY NOW!
An anonymous global survey hopes to provide an honest look at gender bias and sexual harassment in the music industry. The survey sponsors are encouraging people to share their experiences anonymously. InChorus Group and Shesaid·so have partnered to launch the survey, with the key findings to be announced at Shesaid·so’s…
A Penny Saved Is A Tour Date Earned: How Be Frugal On Tour
DIY touring is challenging for a number of reasons, but perhaps none is greater than the financial burden it places on you and your bandmates. That said, touring is fun and necessary part of developing your career as an artist, and with proper planning, you can limit the amount of…
Fans: What Every Artist Wants
When it comes to music, the ‘build it and they will come’ mentality rarely plays out the way artists would like, and the vast majority of the time, fans have to be found and actively converted. Here, Chris Robley guides us through this process and how artists can practically go…
Lyte Empowers Fan-Friendly Ticket Resale
Lyte is on track to secure $100 million in North American event ticket reservations in 2019. The platform empowers fans to return their tickets to live events and join an event’s reservation list to get authentic tickets at a fair price while giving artist, promoters and venues more control of…
Global Live Music Ticket Sales To Top $25B By 2023
Price Waterhouse Coopers has released the Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2019–2023 report which concludes that ticket sales for live music events are expected to exceed $25 billion by 2023. The PwC study projects that aggregate industry revenues are also set to reach a record high of $31.5 million during…
Endeavor Postpones Today’s $400M IPO
Entertainment and sports giant Endeavor announced late Thursday that it has postponed its IPO which had been scheduled for this Friday. Endeavor is the parent company for major music and talent agency WME. ___________________ “Endeavor will continue to evaluate the timing for the proposed offering as market conditions develop,” the…
Concert Crowdfunding As A New Way to Fund Shows – Is It Viable?
While a lot of industry focus is put on selling or – more often – streaming music, the reality is that many performers pull in much of their revenue from live shows. Given the costs and risks commonly associated with putting on live shows, more and more artists are looking…
6 Music Industry Side-Hustles Artists Can Pursue
As a musician, making enough money to pay rent and buy food is tough enough as it is, but being able to pull down enough income to afford things like PR and interesting merch can often seem out of reach. Luckily, be a musician also opens you up to a…