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What’s a fair price for a ticket surcharge?

I came across an interesting graphical analysis published in Rolling Stone about ticket service fees from Ticketmaster and where the fees go.  The optics of these ticket fees are way out of whack – when you start calling something a “ticket fee” and it approaches 50-80% of the ticket...

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Eventric – The Best Venue Database…Ever

Posted by Brian Carpizo | Posted in Eventric, Logistics, Master Tour | Posted on 10-11-2009

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iStock_000000635669XSmallWe’re releasing a massive update to our Master Tour venue database in a few days and while its impressive in its breadth and depth (which I’ll discuss below), the more revealing concept is our unique process for creating and developing this data set consisting of over 6,000 venues. We have venues from over 20 countries of every type and size – sheds, arenas, clubs, theaters, and stadiums. How is it possible for us to manage this amount of information?

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U2 Tour by the Numbers

Posted by Brian Carpizo | Posted in Business, Logistics | Posted on 30-09-2009

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The scale of the current U2 tour is just amazing.  According to a recent Pollstar Pro article (membership required), some facts about the tour:

  • Tour overhead (whether or not they are performing) is $750,000 per day
  • There are more than 200 trucks used to transport crew and equipment
  • The tour has generated $300 million in ticket sales so far and still has not broken even
  • The estimated gross of the three tours they have committed to Live Nation is $1.46 billion

U2 – give Eventric a call and we’ll help you break even sooner!

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