Ticketmaster: How a Company that Does Nothing Came to Own Everything (Part 1)
Download MP3On this week's episode, Meg Sinick joins me for the saga of Ticketmaster: the company that swallowed up and digested the live music industry by making a product that literally no one wants. Find out:
- How service fees and exclusive contracts turned the thriving music scene into a $300 Lil Jon meet-and-greet atop a pyramid of bleached skulls
- Why the concentrated hate of millions of concertgoers only makes Ticketmaster more powerful
- How Taylor Swift finished what Eddie Vedder started (and also Kid Rock was there)
References:
Budnick, Dean, and Josh Baron. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. New York: Plume, 2012.
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/reports/Ticket_Sales_Report.pdf
Budnick, Dean, and Josh Baron. Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped. New York: Plume, 2012.
https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/reports/Ticket_Sales_Report.pdf
https://www.newspapers.com/image/35017641/?match=1&terms=ticket%20scalpers
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rare-humanism-behind-paul-allens-technological-vision
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rare-humanism-behind-paul-allens-technological-vision
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/business/media/bots-that-siphon-off-tickets-frustrate-concert-promoters.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/business/12tickets.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/business/12tickets.html
