Australian concert goers pay higher fees to ticketing giants than independent agencies, industry modelling shows

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Ticket sales data reveals higher costs passed on by companies such as Ticketek and Ticketmaster

Data from ticket sales for an Australian act playing across several similarly sized venues reveals disparities in fees levied by different sellers.Data from ticket sales for an Australian act playing across several similarly sized venues reveals disparities in fees levied by different sellers.

The modelling, based on 1,000 single ticket sales for three different venues, is based on a forthcoming tour of an international act playing in Kings Park Perth – where the venue is operated by Live Nation and tickets are sold exclusively through its company Ticketmaster, Brisbane’s Great Hall– operated independently but with an exclusive deal with Ticketek, and Melbourne’s Plenary Theatre – which allows the promoter to use a ticket seller of their choice, in this case Oztix.

Sloan said he decided to go public on ticketing fees after the live music industry’s peak body, Live Performance Australia ,, which suggested the multinational’s vertically integrated business model was reducing competition and driving up concert ticket prices. “If we lose independent venue, promoter and ticket options, then that is what we have left and we all lose.”

 

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