A Reuters-produced segment which aired in several countries worldwide, featuring interviews with the creators of, and behind-the-scenes footage from, UNBOUND: A ★Instaminiseries (2016), an Instagram project based on David Bowie’s final studio album.
A Topographic Tour of the Online Music World Research report commissioned by Liquid Audio and prepared by Michael Tchong of Iconocast, Summer/Fall 1997 Market Dimensions More than one million publicly-visible sites dot the World Wide Web today, according to Netcraft (see chart, right) from just 50 in January 1993, less than five years ago. This…
EP/49: REVAMPING TICKETING Ticketing is Broken. Can it be Fixed? It’s no secret that concert ticketing is a mess. Service fees are sky high, sophisticated bots scoop the best seats and resale prices on secondary markets are too high for many fans. While the problem is widespread – help may be on the way. A…
How Ticketing Company Lyte Found Success by Going Heavy on Ticket Flexibility Back of House, Issue 041, March 23, 2021 “Just because the industry has been selling tickets online for almost 30 years doesn’t mean it has had anything like state-of-the-art ecommerce,” said Lawrence “LP” Peryer, Lyte’s Chief Strategy Officer. “If you look at what…
Lyte-ing It Up: Q’s With Lyte’s Ant Taylor And Lawrence Peryer by Francisco Rendon on Pollstar.com, April 6, 2020 With the live industry dramatically disrupted, some have adopted anxious or more doom and gloom tones when talking about the business. Ticketing platform Lyte was seeing astronomical growth before the shutdown, matching its total 2018 revenue…
Emerging Secondary Market In ‘Presale’ Passwords Irks Dues-Supported Fan Clubs By Joseph De Avila, September 20, 2007; Page D1 Stephanie Kendrid, a 31-year-old accountant in Los Angeles, could have paid $29.99 to join Kelly Clarkson’s fan club and gain special access to concert tickets. Instead, she placed an ad on Craigslist and paid $4 for…
You Are The DJ: Custom-CD Web Sites Allow Music Lovers to Create Their Own Mixes By Tom Gogola, DIRECT Magzine, November, 1999 If true one-to-one marketing is based on treating a particular customer differently based on data collected during an interaction, then CustomDisc is a true market leader. The company doesn’t merely customize its product offerings,…