AEG Launches New AXS Ticket Service: Competition for Ticketmaster?
By Rob Scott
August 29, 2011
August 29, 2011
- Since Ticketmaster merged with Live Nation last year, the Justice Department mandated that Ticketmaster share its software to avoid creating a monopoly.
- As a result, Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) has launched AXS, a ticket service that “lets you buy tickets at the theater’s or arena’s own website rather than linking you to a ticket website, like Ticketmaster. And it shows all the fees upfront,” as explained in a Marketplace radio report.
- “They’re not going to charge the much-hated ‘print-at-home’ fee, that no one could ever really understand why that fee was even there in the first place,” says Gary Bongiovanni of the concert trade magazine Pollstar. “And then that is part of what generated such ill-will against Ticketmaster.”
- ETC’s David Wertheimer was also quoted in the report: “This deal represents competition, and competition is good. It’s good for the venues, it’s good for the artists and the teams. And you know it’s just good to have choice in the marketplace.”
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David, I heard you on Marketplace when it was originally broadcast. Nice exposure for ETC! (You were very pithy!)
David, I heard you on Marketplace when it was originally broadcast. Nice exposure for ETC! (You were very pithy!)
Yes, I was driving in my car and suddenly thought “that sounds like David!” and it was… Very stately. Nice job.
Yes, I was driving in my car and suddenly thought “that sounds like David!” and it was… Very stately. Nice job.
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