We have stubhub, tickpic and I have been getting tickets from there. Better pricing than ticketmaster
Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
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#242Adam Conover has a well-watched explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayrVYwoe-DY
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#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
were they trying to compete, or just hoping to get acquired lol
Doesn't matter too much. We should all just start up one of these and all get acquired, then Ticketmaster has given us all a lot of money for no benefit to them. If enough of us do it they can't afford to keep acquiring us, and there will be real competition.
it definitely matters.
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#244Ticket Master can never be replaced because Terry Davis himself worked on it.
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#245Many of the other commenters have explained how the ownership structure of Ticketmaster gives them near monopoly control because they also own the radio stations and the venues and the promoters. (I'm using "they" and "own" very liberally in this paragraph.) The simple fact that there's an ownership link between Ticketmaster and the scalper I mean totally legit resale sites is so wildly corrupt that, well, it's textb…
Ticketmaster uses their monopoly power to unfairly squeeze the venues and the artists too. They're using their monopoly power to squeeze all sides of the live music marketplace - fans, artists, venues, and promoters. So the bad guys are really Ticketmaster, not the artists.
They also buy rivals. I worked for a small, out of the way company that added a really good ticketing app for some niche scenarios.
They basically bought us for the tech and integrated the rest of the company into various other companies that were spun off. I ended up with stock in several of them.
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#246You can use this app to search for any kind of events globally using natural language
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#247It is the same question of: "why hasn't there been a real competitor to Facebook Events and why many people post events information only there?"
A major reason Facebook dominates is consolidated discovery, but open alternatives are definitely needed. We have been building Events Map to let users discover events from around the web using natural language search and interactive map pins that display a countdown of how many days are left.
https://reloadium.com/reloadium-events-map/ Video demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/aZn0mQXpKt4?is=xNDB9ksjzXG2IdW8
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
If an artist wants to set the floor at $150 but knows fans might be upset, they can drop the price 30% and TicketMaster can help them make up the difference in fees, and Ticketmaster has nothing to lose. The artists get to keep their reputation intact instead of appearing greedy to fans This myth keeps getting promulgated and it's just that: a myth. The podcast was wrong about how the music industry actually works. V…
Do you have evidence for your claims?
Variety, Billboard.com, Ticket News, any of a dozen other industry rags. Take your pick.
Re: Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?
#249Does Ticketmaster own all the major platforms?
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#250I think the real question is, why hasn't Ticketmaster been sued for being a monopoly. It looks like they were based on this article: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/16/nx-s1-5787491/ticketmaster-li...
But it hasn't done much yet. We need to do more to break up these monopolies!