Ticket troubles – can there be a better system?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Niall speaks to secondary ticketing site Viagogo on this episode. While it wasn’t part of dynamic pricing, it has offered resale tickets for thousands of pounds since Saturday.
Matt Drew from the company accepts the industry needs a full review while Adam Webb, from the campaign group FanFair Alliance, explains the changes it would like to see.
Later, our data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire tells Niall about how a rise in online propaganda has helped the Afghan branch of Islamic State become “the greatest external terror threat”. It’s been linked to the concert hall attack in Moscow and the plot to disrupt Taylor Swift gigs in Austria.
Producers: Soila Apparicio, Emma Rae Woodhouse
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 0:56.7 | Legacy to find out how. Hi, welcome back to the Sky News Daily. I'm Neil Patterson. And we've got two |
| 1:05.3 | separate stories for you today. Later, we're going to be talking about Islamic State Khorasan, |
| 1:10.1 | ISK, as they're also |
| 1:12.3 | known, the terrorist group based in Afghanistan that have been linked to, well, a number of |
| 1:16.7 | attacks, including those aborted, those thwarted attacks in Austria on three separate |
| 1:21.6 | Taylor Swift concerts. Now, Sky News has seen data showing just how much they're increasing their |
| 1:26.3 | strength and their influence globally. |
| 1:28.4 | I will have our data and forensics correspondent Tom Cheshire joining us soon to talk us through that. |
| 1:33.9 | But we begin with Oasis. |
| 1:36.9 | And I don't know if you were stuck in front of a computer at the weekend, |
| 1:39.9 | but certainly there was huge interest in acquiring tickets for their reunion show, |
| 1:44.8 | but there were also huge problems with sales. |
| 1:48.3 | So-called dynamic pricing saw tickets that did originally have a face value of 150 pounds, |
| 1:54.2 | later rising to over 350 quid. |
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