Live Nation president and CFO Joe Berchtold plans to blame scalpers for Ticketmaster's disastrous Taylor Swift onsale during Tuesday's senate hearing.
which caused the company totemporarily suspend salesand made it harder for fans to acquire face-value tickets.Countless fans who had registered to receive presale codes struggled to buy tickets. Almost immediately, Swift tickets popped up on the secondary market. SomeTaylor Swiftfans paid as much ...
How did Taylor Swift's Eras tour presale turn so calamitous? Ticketmaster says bots and unregistered fans caused service delays and website crashes.
have ushered in a new era of scams. In the past year, fake video of celebrities likeTom HanksandMr. Beasthave been used to shill products they don't actually endorse. The latest of these scams is a phony giveaway ofcookware Le Creuset by deepfakedTaylor SwiftandSelena Gomez, theNew York...
AnEras Tour update account wrote, "Meredith and Olivia Swift are silent amidst the reveal of Benjamin Button Swift’s feature on Taylor Swift’s cover shoot for TIME’s 'Person Of The Year.'" Another fanjoked, "she got one male cat and he’s the one on cover where’s the feminism."...
We had 14 million people hit the site, including bots, which are not supposed to be there.” Maffei said Ticketmaster sold more than 2 million tickets on Tuesday and demand for Swift “could have filled 900 stadiums.” “This exceeded every expectation,” he said, explaining that much...
Among the other bills is a bipartisan plan to crack down onautomated ticket botsthat keep fans from getting tickets to see their favorite artists. House Bills 5661 and 5662 were passedand are dubbed the "Taylor Swift" bills because tickets for Swift'sEras Toursold out within minutes but were...
"There was unprecedented demand for Taylor Swift tickets," according to the company's opening testimony, shared ahead of the hearing with Dark Reading. "We knew bots would attack that on-sale, and planned accordingly." However, the testimony went on to say that Ticketmaster received triple the...
Taylor Swift fans are given the opportunity to register for "verified fan" tickets courtesy of the artist and Ticketmaster as a way of cutting down on scalpers and bots, but the way fans move up in the virtual ticket line is by engaging in &quo
More than two dozen Taylor Swift fans are suing Live Nation over Ticketmaster’s botched sale of tickets to her Eras tour last month, accusing the company of “anticompetitive conduct,” fraud and other forms of wrongdoing. In a complaint filed Friday in Los Angeles court – the first known...