Every day I hear from fans about how much they dislike CAPTCHA (those squiggly lines at checkout). CAPTCHA is one of the things we do to get as many tickets as possible to fans who want to go to the show versus people whose only intent for purchasing is to resell for an astronomical profit. While the current CAPTCHA solution is effective in helping us identify and slow down BOTS (for more info on what BOTS are and what we do to fight them, check out this blog post) that unfairly cut the line, and swoop up some of the best seats to popular shows, it isn’t a great fan experience.
I could not be more excited to share with you today that we are dramatically improving this for you, on both Ticketmaster.com and our Ticketmaster mobile App for iPhone (and coming soon to the Android App). For the past year we ...
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01.30.13
Bye-bye Squiggly Lines
[caption id="attachment_1205" align="aligncenter" width="404"] Ticketmaster will donate an additional $1 for every “like” to Ticketmaster’s Facebook page now through 12/31.[/caption]
At Ticketmaster, we value service to strengthen our ties with charitable partners and build community. Ticketmaster is proud to announce another year with the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital® in support of their ninth annual Thanks and Giving® campaign. Over the last four years, with your support, we have raised almost a million dollars to help save lives. One hundred percent (100%) of the donations benefit St. Jude, the nation's leading pediatric research and treatment center devoted solely to children with cancer and other deadly diseases. St. Jude has developed protocols that help push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962, to 80 percent today. And no family ever pays St. Jude for anything.
This year, we’re pleased to ...Topic(s): Latest News
Tomorrow on Worlds AIDS Day, Ticketmaster will make a donation for every ticket sold throughout the day to Lifebeat: Music Fights HIV/AIDS thus encouraging music and live entertainment fans to help fight HIV/AIDS.
Lifebeat is a national nonprofit that uses the power of music and the music industry to help educate young people about HIV/AIDS prevention. Every year, Lifebeat reaches thousands of concert-goers across the country with safer sex education, free condoms, HIV/AIDS prevention information, counseling, and testing. In 2012, Lifebeat conducted HIV/AIDS outreach at concerts and festivals headlined by Madonna, Coldplay, Juanes, Wiz Khalifa & Mac Miller, and Rita Ora.
Held on December 1st every year, World AIDS Day provides an opportunity for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV. Nearly 34 million people are currently living with HIV and AIDS worldwide, with young people between the ages of 13 and 24 accounting for 1 in 3 ...
In the tragic wake of Superstorm Sandy, are you wishing you could do more to help those affected by natural disasters? Ticketmaster and the American Red Cross have partnered to make it easy for you to contribute.
Last week we started accepting donations on behalf of the Red Cross here at Ticketmaster.com. When you buy your tickets, you have the option to donate increments of $5 to relief efforts, 100 percent of which go directly to the Red Cross. Generous fans from all over the country are already making contributions but as you can see from the news, many people are still in dire straits and need our help.
The campaign ends Monday, November 19. If you miss our deadline, remember the Red Cross will continue accepting donations for Superstorm Sandy relief efforts--as well as in support of people affected by other unfortunate disasters. Please make a donation today with ...Topic(s): Latest News
At Ticketmaster, we use food, fun and service to strengthen the ties between us. We do regular team service work in our local communities, we financially support a host of wonderful organizations around the globe that help others, and we use our connections with fans to raise awareness for causes we believe in. But we’ve never done this: for the first time in more than 35 years, we are changing the color of our tickets! We are making all Ticketmaster tickets pink to raise awareness for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In addition to raising awareness with millions of pink tickets, we’ll also be supporting the American Cancer Society by donating a portion of the proceeds from all NFL tickets sold on Ticketmaster.com and the NFL Ticket Exchange during the month of October. The proceeds will help fund cancer research and treatment programs across the country by the American Cancer ...Topic(s): Latest News
Paperless ticket holders share their thoughts about their concert experience with paperless tickets.
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The Tropical post-punk band, Ghost Lion, led by vocalist Blake Hanley, won Live Nation’s inaugural In House Artist Project. Live Nation created the employee competion, under the moniker In House Artist Project, to help support and develop emerging artists who also happen to be Live Nation Employees....
Over a six month period, 119 bands from around the world competed. Six winners were selected and an epic battle-of-the-bands culminated at the House of Blues on Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Vintage Tone, Magnuson, S.K. Robot, Ghost Lion, Mount Fabric and Carbellion rocked it out on the stage, with Ghost Lion emerging as the winner.
In addition to management consultation and a marketing fund, Ghost Lion earned a slot in an upcoming national House of Blues club tour.
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03.7.12
Check Out Tonight’s Set List
Setlist.fm®, the growing community-managed database of more than 400K set lists for 24K artist in more than 70K venues, is coming to Live Nation. This one-of-a-kind archive spans decades of live music history, from the 1950s to last night’s concerts from around the world. We LOVE the community at Setlist.fm and are thrilled to nurture and support it going forward.
Stay tuned as we extend the fun of a concert to before, during and after the show by integrating Setlist.fm across mobile, apps and online. In the meantime, you can get ready for a concert by looking up the band’s most recent set lists or relive a favorite concert at www.setlist.fm ...Topic(s): Latest News
12.13.11
Ellen’s 12 Days of Giveaways!
We helped make the holidays a little brighter for Ellen’s TV audience today with Ticketmaster gift cards. In case you missed it, here it is. To share in the holiday cheer, you can check out our holiday daily deals offered in the Ticketmaster Merchandise Store. New deals are revealed each day at 12:00 noon Eastern at http://store.ticketmaster.com, on Ticketmaster’s Facebook page and through Twitter by following @Ticketmaster and will only be available to redeem from the Ticketmaster Merchandise Store for 24 hours (Friday deals will be extended through the weekend). Fans also have the opportunity to enter drawings for a chance to win Ticketmaster Store gift certificates on Ticketmaster’s Facebook page. Three lucky sweepstakes entrants will win one of three $100 gift certificates in the final drawing on December 24th.
The Ticketmaster Merchandise Store is the perfect place for those hard to from the hard to shop for people still ...Topic(s): Latest News
[caption id="attachment_440" align="alignnone" width="516"] Lifebeat Music Fights HIV[/caption]
On December 1st, World AIDS Day, Ticketmaster will donate $.10 for every ticket purchased through Ticketmaster to Lifebeat. Tickets may be purchased through Ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster call centers, and/or at participating retail outlets including Walmart locations, Simon Malls and Taubman Centers. Lifebeat was founded in 1992 and leverages music and the music industry to educate young people on HIV/AIDS prevention and provide the healing power of music to people living with HIV/AIDS.
Last year, Ticketmaster donated more than $22,000, which enabled Lifebeat to provide safer sex education to over 30,000 concert goers throughout the US and put on over 200 live concerts in 2011 for people living with HIV/AIDS in the New York City and Washington, D.C. ...Topic(s): Latest News
