ICYMI - Buying Concert Tickets Online is Still a Hellscape
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Rachelle Hampton is joined by Justin Richmond, co-host of the music podcast Broken Record and host of the new podcast Started From the Bottom. The two discuss what, if anything, has changed with the online ticketing giant Ticketmaster since ticket sales for Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour dominated headlines. How did Ticketmaster come to account for 70% of the ticketing and live event market? Now that it does, what responsibility do artists have to their fans to keep ticket prices accessible? Can real lasting change be made to system that most agree is broken?
This podcast is produced by Se’era Spragley Ricks, Daisy Rosario, Daniel Schroeder and Rachelle Hampton.
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| 0:00.0 | I never thought I'd make a video about ticket master, but here I am. |
| 0:07.0 | Literally paid about $800 for two tickets for G.A. |
| 0:12.0 | Hi, I'm Rachel Hansen, and you listening to ICYMI. |
| 0:16.0 | Incation is the slave podcast about internet culture. |
| 0:20.0 | And I hope y'all lovely listeners are doing, if not great, at least stable on this Wednesdays. |
| 0:28.0 | The ability is all we can ask for in these trying times. |
| 0:31.0 | Spring has finally sprung here in New York, which means that even though my body is currently attempting to fight the air, |
| 0:39.0 | my serotonin levels have stabilized, and that, again, all we can ask for. |
| 0:59.0 | Lad Brooks Live, the new way to win thousands of free tickets to electrifying live events. |
| 1:08.0 | Sign up at ladbrookslive.co.uk |
| 1:11.0 | 18 plus UK, max 1 account per individual, enter free draws to win a ticket from designated list, max 1 win per week, restrictions and TNC's apply. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm really excited for today's episode, but before we get into that, |
| 1:25.0 | I just wanted to give a few little housekeeping updates. |
| 1:28.0 | We are so, so, so, so so close to making the hire for my co-host. |
| 1:35.0 | You can tell by the amount of so's, like we are so close, which means a new ICYMI era soon approaches. |
| 1:44.0 | That means some changes are coming other than y'all not having to listen to me ruminate on Tumblr all the time. |
| 1:50.0 | I mean, it's still going to happen to be clear, but not as frequently. |
| 1:55.0 | Or so, you hope. |
| 1:57.0 | One of those changes is the departure of our founding producer Daniel Schrader. |
| 2:01.0 | For those of you who have been with us since the beginning, you already know and love Daniel, despite his quite frankly superhuman ability to turn everything into a pun. |
| 2:10.0 | He has kindly stayed with us through this transition period, which, as I have said many times before, |
| 2:16.0 | went on longer than any of us could have planned. |
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