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Ticketing Food Fight: My Thoughts on FAIR Ticketing Act, Ticket Bill of Rights, the Ticket Market, and More!

Hi! I’m back! Which means Penny is back as well. I’ve been considering changing the nature of the newsletter to go a bit deeper into some of these stories, but not 5 at a time. Meaning: I’m going to start sending out multiple each week with just one story, maybe two at a time. I’ve […]

Face Value Ticket Prices are “Antiquated”?!

Hey from poolside in Miami! (The view looks the same every year because I’m almost always at the same spot. I’m a sucker.) Thanks for reading Talking Tickets! ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Subscribed You’ll get a short newsletter today with some stuff that has caught my eyes. […]

Baseball is Moving to Vegas?! What Do Y’all Think?

Hi- Start of my summer retreat this week…so a little less newsletter. I’m off to Miami next week, but not before I try to score some tickets to see: All before I leave town! I did get to see LCD Soundsystem on Sunday and they were great! Fun! 10/10. July 15th at 1 PM Eastern, […]

OPERA America’s Survey Shows an Industry in Freefall…

Hi! 15th June 2023 at 1 PM Eastern time: we are doing another FREE webinar on brand management for professional services. If you sell into the world of tickets as a service or tool provider, this is likely up your alley. My ambition is to do one of these a month as a way to replace […]

A Riff on the Padres/MLB/RSN and the Business of Sports…

Is it possible for the Padres and MLB to maintain the same business model and revenue now that Diamond Sports Group has walked away from its media rights deal? No. I’ve got two reasons why I think this doesn’t work: The idea of sliding from the RSN model to an OTT model is hard to […]

Pricey! That’s What Watching Sports on TV is Going to Become! Also, UX v. Ticketmaster!

Hey! What did y’all think of yesterday’s webinar? Let me know by replying to this email. Check out the growing Dave shop. New offers and opportunities will be coming now that I have a technical issue fixed. Also, I’m doing my first in the new series of monthly webinars on brand management for professional service firms. This […]

Brand Management for Ticket Sellers…

On Thursday, June 1 at 1 PM Eastern, I’m going to partner with AudienceView to deliver a FREE webinar called “The Basics of Brand Management for Ticket Sellers”. I’ve been working up an outline of ideas to include in the webinar. Here’s a taste of what you will learn: I. Definition of a Brand II. […]