ICYMI - Buying Concert Tickets Online is Still a Hellscape
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🗓️ 5 April 2023
⏱️ 44 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 | In case you missed it, a 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. |
| 0:48.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:50.0 | What do I do? |
| 0:51.0 | What do I say? |
| 0:52.0 | What do I say? |
| 0:54.0 | In the McMillan online community, we know what it's like to have cancer, because we have it too. |
| 1:01.0 | So whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling, whatever you need to ask about cancer, |
| 1:08.0 | whatever the time of day or night will do whatever it takes to help you. |
| 1:14.0 | To join us, search McMillan online community. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm really excited today's episode, but before we get into that, 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 ICY, my 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 gonna happen to be clear, but not as frequently, or so you hope. |
| 1:57.0 | One of those changes is the departure of our founding producer, Daniel Schrader. |
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