Ticket bot software has recently become illegal. Read to find out how this impacts your arts organization and what you can do to help.
Event Ticketing Made Simple through Brown Paper Tickets
Ticket Scalping Today: Assessing the Challenge
Reselling tickets at prices above face value on the secondary market, otherwise known as ticket scalping, is a common practice in the United States. But how has the internet and advancing technology empowered scalpers at the expense of arts organizations? AMT Lab Contributor Katie Grennan investigates.
Three days left to complete the Ticketing Software Satifaction Survey!
- Click here to take survey. Photo: Gyorgy Kovacs via Flickr.
The 2011 Ticketing Software Satisfaction Survey is closing Friday, February 18!
Now in its second year, we designed this short survey to see how satisfied arts and cultural organizations are with the ticketing software products they are currently using. Many ticketing software vendors have used the results of last year’s survey to find out what is important to arts and culture managers. This survey is your chance to tell them, and the field at large, how satisfied (or not) you are with your current system.
If you are a box office manager or staff member, house manager, business manager, executive director, board member, marketing staff, or anyone else who has contact with a box office software system, then this survey is for you! Results will be sent to survey participants in April 2011.
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Get Your Phil...
The New York Philharmonic has created a subscription series that allows people under age 35 to build their own season package for only $29 per ticket. Subscribers using MyPhil, as the program has been dubbed, get the best available seats in the house at the time of purchase, so the value of the discount fluctuates depending on the seat(s) one is able to secure.
The subscription plan offers extra tickets throughout the season for guests for just $29 and also provides scheduling flexibility should a conflict arise on the date of your ticketed performance. In addition, MyPhil subscribers get a free one-year subscription to Time Out New York magazine.
This is just another example of an arts organization recognizing the unique needs and habits of the 18-35 set. I'm 31 years old, and the thing I appreciate most about plans like this is the ability to select alternate performance dates should a conflict arise. Young people are less and less likely to plan ahead, as we like to keep our social calendars flexible in the off chance that a better opportunity presents itself.
Confession: I have no social calendar. But if I did, I'd like to keep it flexible.