Their most recent acquisition was ThaiTicketMajor on Jul 21, 2022. Key companies in the industry are forming partnerships with financial institutions, such as digital wallet service providers and banks, for providing additional offers to customers, thereby leading to increased traffic and financial transactions on websites. The report will account for Covid19 as a key market contributor. Live Nation reports revenue growth in 2019 to $11.5bn - TheTicketingBusiness News All the latest entertainment ticketing ecosystem news from around the globe and up-to-the-minute media coverage from all the leading voices in the ticketing business industry, all in one place - curated and edited by TheTicketingBusiness team at Xperiology. Event-Related Deferred Revenue of $2.3 billionAlmost Double Year-End 2019 Confirmed Show Bookings and Ticket Sales Up Double-Digits Across Major Venues 45 Million Tickets Already Sold for 2022 Shows, with Pricing on Top 10 Tours Up Over 20% (vs 2019) Sponsorship Commitments Up Double-Digits Relative to 2019, Already Over 80% Sold For Year The audience of Ticketmaster.com is made up of 49.68% women and 50.32% men. Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate (CAGR 2023-2027) of 3.59%, resulting in a projected market volume of US$82.61bn by 2027. Ticketmaster's funding is not shown to the public. [4][5] The company originally licensed computer programs and sold hardware for ticketing systems. Ticketmaster.com receives 115.9 million monthly unique visitors on average. Ticketmaster sells nearly 500 million tickets per year for a wide range of concerts, events, and games, and their websites receive over a billion visits per year. The company believed this would help circumvent brokers and scalpers. The ratio of male-female Ticketmaster users is almost perfectly balanced. To make the Ticketmaster weekly e-shot more relevant to the recipient, it is distributed to over 9 million subscribers and divided by location. Following the widespread criticism of the company's handling of the pre-sale of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour in November 2022, the Department of Justice began a formal investigation into Live Nation Entertainment on the grounds of monopoly, antitrust law and consumer rights violations. Let's now look at the key data about Ticketmaster Entertainment! Live Nation Entertainment Reports First Quarter 2022 Results "[105], On December 26, 2022, American country singer Zach Bryan criticized Ticketmaster for his Burn Burn Burn tour (2023) and listed out non-transferrable tickets to stop scalpers. Income Statement :: Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Irving Azoff, Ticketmaster CEO at the time, released an apology and stated that the TicketsNow link would no longer be shown for Springsteen's concerts. Several companies have started using the Internet for cutting marketing costs to stay ahead in a highly competitive market. [26] In 2017, TicketWeb, Ticketmaster's self-service ticketing platform, acquired Strobe Labs, a marketing platform that allows users to market to fans through social media.