NEW YORK (AP) — A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary had a harmful monopoly over big concert venues, dealing the company a loss in a lawsuit over claims brought by dozens of U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
NEW YORK — Incendiary internal messages in which a Live Nation employee mocks customers as “so stupid” and says the company is “robbing them blind, baby” have been made public as over two dozen states weigh whether to continue their antitrust trial against the entertainment giant and its subsidiary Ticketmaster.
Republican state attorneys general are blasting the Justice Department’s abrupt settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster, warning the deal leaves the entertainment giant’s dominance largely intact and vowing to continue the antitrust fight.
The FTC has filed a bombshell lawsuit against Ticketmaster, accusing the online ticket broker of raking in profits through excessive fees and turning a blind eye to bots illegally reselling millions of tickets to customers.
The FTC is probing whether Live Nation’s Ticketmaster has done enough to prevent illegal ticket resales by bots on its platform. Ticket bots are a constant plague on consumers simply hoping to buy event and concert tickets.
Ticketmaster is under fire again, this time by the FTC, which has accused the ticketing giant of turning a blind eye while scalpers gouge fans and then trying to twist President Trump’s ticket reform push into a scheme to grab even more power.
NEW YORK (AP) — Swifties, your girl has spoke on the Ticketmaster meltdown. Taylor Swift posted a story Friday on Instagram expressing her anger and frustration over the hours spent by fans trying to buy tickets for her tour next year.
Greg Maffei, the CEO of Ticketmaster’s largest shareholder, Liberty Media, blamed bots for the ticket-selling company’s struggle to get Taylor Swift concert tickets into the hands of over one million “verified fans.”
Abortion provider Planned Parenthood is ready to unleash a record $50 million spend across the nation ahead of November’s midterm elections.
Pop Star Lizzo is vowing to donate $500,000 from her tour proceeds to Planned Parenthood, which the entertainment company Live Nation will match for total of $1 million. The Joe Biden campaigner made the announcement on Friday, after the U.S. Supreme Court overruled Roe v. Wade.
HOUSTON — A congressional committee has launched an investigation into the promoter of the Astroworld music festival in Houston, in which 10 people were killed during a massive crowd surge and attendees were packed so tightly that many could not breathe or move their arms.
Dozens of people who attended the deadly Astroworld Festival in Houston are suing rapper Travis Scott and other organizers for a total demand of $750 million in compensation.
Rapper Travis Scott and the entertainment company Live Nation are now facing an additional seven lawsuits in the wake of chaos that ensued Friday at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, where at least eight people were killed.
Rappers Travis Scott and Drake, as well as the venue and entertainment company Live Nation, are being sued by concertgoers who say they were injured on Friday at the Astroworld Music Festival in Houston, Texas, where at least eight people were killed.
The entertainment industry likes to lecture ordinary Americans about the importance of diversity while continually failing to live up to its own woke standards. The latest evidence: a new study showing music company executives are overwhelmingly white men, with less than 5 percent of CEO, chair, and president roles occupied by black people.
Live Nation announced that it will be converting its concert venues into polling locations for the November election. The concert industry giant says it is “working with local officials to examine the feasibility of using more than 100 Live Nation venues” across the country.
Investors fear that people will avoid movie theaters, concert venues, and gyms if the coronavirus hits the U.S. hard.
Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster has partnered with a facial recognition software developer in an effort to create a concert experience that doesn’t require a physical or digital ticket at all — just your face.
