FanFair Alliance is delighted to announce that leading ticketing companies Gigantic, See Tickets, Skiddle and The Ticket Factory have signed the campaign’s Declaration against online ticket touts. They join more than 100 music managers, agents, promoters, entrepreneurs, ticket retailers and trade bodies supporting the campaign – amongst them representatives of artists including Arctic Monkeys, Biffy […]
Today, a cross-party group of MPs and Peers led by Sharon Hodgson MP and Nigel Adams MP joined with famous faces, such as Imogen Heap, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child producer Sonia Friedman, and Josh Franceschi of You Me At Six, to call on the Government to accept the “Ban the Bots” amendment during […]
Yesterday (November 1st), Nigel Adams MP presented his amendment to the House of Commons Public Bill Committee for the Digital Economy Bill, aiming to make illegal the misuse of bot technology by ticket touts to purchase excessive numbers of tickets and to knowingly resell them on the secondary market. Similar legislation has been introduced by […]
Please sign this petition to enforce the Consumer Rights Act and push Parliament to debate online ticket touting. 100,000 signatures needed! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/128969
Press Release – Adam Tudhope, manager of Mumford & Sons: “Unregulated ticket resale websites are out of control. While we wait for Government to act, it is essential that music businesses develop ticketing strategies that aim to disrupt the touts and help fans.” – Guide available to download here – Leading ticketing and D2C services Active Ticketing, […]
FanFair Alliance: New campaign unites music businesses, artists and fans against online ticket touts Managers of artists including Arctic Monkeys, Mumford & Sons, One Direction, Little Mix, Jess Glynne, PJ Harvey, Biffy Clyro, Iron Maiden, Ed Sheeran, Chvrches and Noel Gallagher, as well as leading agents, promoters and music trade bodies sign Declaration against online […]
Daniel Gumble, Music Week A cross section of managers, artists and trade bodies have joined forces in the fight against ticket touts with the launch of a new campaign dubbed the FanFair Alliance, which is lobbying Government to clamp down on online touting. Launched today at Somerset House, London, by the managers of Arctic Monkeys, […]