Bloomberg Businessweek

Concert Season Is ‘Chaotic’ as Bottleneck of Shows Wreaks Havoc

by Ashley Carman, Bloomberg Businessweek, August 25, 2022

“If someone were to ask my impressions of 2022, I’d say chaotic,” says Lawrence Peryer, chief commercial officer at Lyte, a ticketing platform. “It’s a lot of factors converging all at once. Not just the uncertainty of coming out of a pandemic, not just the economic uncertainty, not just the political uncertainty, but lots of supply and lots of competition for finite dollars.”

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