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Faster, Higher, Slower: LA28 Got 12 Million Registrations Before It Sold You a Thing
Event RegistrationIndustry News

Faster, Higher, Slower: LA28 Got 12 Million Registrations Before It Sold You a Thing

LA28 has 12 million ticket registrations two years out. The real lesson is not the number, it is the form that captured it.

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Margin Call: The 55% Profit Club Has a 200,000 Square Foot Door Policy
Exhibitions & Trade ShowsIndustry News

Margin Call: The 55% Profit Club Has a 200,000 Square Foot Door Policy

CEIR says large trade shows post 55% net margins. The small print, and what it tells every organiser about which event costs actually dilute with scale.

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Grounds for Concern: The Australian Open Just Capped Its Best Value Ticket
Industry NewsTicketing Industry

Grounds for Concern: The Australian Open Just Capped Its Best Value Ticket

The Australian Open will cap daily ground pass sales for the first time in 2027. What capped entry means for timed entry ticketing at your event.

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Diary Hard: The World's Biggest Show Organiser Grew 6% and Still Reported Less Money
Event Industry TrendsExhibitions & Trade Shows

Diary Hard: The World's Biggest Show Organiser Grew 6% and Still Reported Less Money

RELX grew Exhibitions revenue 6% underlying in H1 2026 and still reported less money. Here is what a shifting calendar does to a multi-event portfolio.

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Born to Run the Numbers: Congress Just Put All-In Ticket Pricing Back on the Table
Industry NewsPricing & Transparency

Born to Run the Numbers: Congress Just Put All-In Ticket Pricing Back on the Table

Congress revived the BOSS and SWIFT Act at a 22 July hearing. Here is what all-in ticket pricing would mean for event organisers.

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Face the Music: Madison Square Garden Just Showed Everyone the Bill for Watching the Door
Event RegistrationEvent Security

Face the Music: Madison Square Garden Just Showed Everyone the Bill for Watching the Door

MSG's three year facial recognition fight ended in a $30,000 paperwork fine. The real lesson for organisers is what your check-in desk collects.

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Musical Chairs Is Over: Event Hiring in the Strangest Job Market in 50 Years
Event Industry TrendsEvent Workforce

Musical Chairs Is Over: Event Hiring in the Strangest Job Market in 50 Years

The job market just hit a 50 year participation low. Five hiring shifts event organisers need to understand, and what to do about each one.

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These Go to Eleven: What the UK's New Music Plan Hands Event Organisers
Event Industry TrendsIndustry News

These Go to Eleven: What the UK's New Music Plan Hands Event Organisers

The UK's Turn It Up music plan brings longer event licences, more Temporary Event Notices and rates relief. Here is what organisers actually get.

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Mia San Digital: Bayern Just Benched the Paper Ticket
Event TechIndustry News

Mia San Digital: Bayern Just Benched the Paper Ticket

Bayern Munich is going app-only for 2026/27: no paper, no wallet passes. What the move means for fraud, friction and your next event.

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Jack of All Trades: The 17,407 Questions Your Registration Page Isn't Answering
AI in EventsEvent Registration

Jack of All Trades: The 17,407 Questions Your Registration Page Isn't Answering

An AI concierge on the Belgian Grand Prix ticketing site held 17,407 conversations in 30 days. Every one was a question the page failed to answer.

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Billion Dollar Baby: Cvent Just Bet the House on AI (and on You Showing Up)
AI in EventsEvent Tech

Billion Dollar Baby: Cvent Just Bet the House on AI (and on You Showing Up)

Cvent unveiled 70+ innovations, 34 AI features and a $1bn investment at CONNECT 2026. What the agent era of event tech means for organisers.

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Seeing Red: A German Court Just Booked FIFA Over Ticketing Dark Patterns
Industry NewsPricing & Transparency

Seeing Red: A German Court Just Booked FIFA Over Ticketing Dark Patterns

A Frankfurt court ruled FIFA's World Cup ticket flows unlawful, from bait pricing to punishing countdown timers. What the red card means for organisers.

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About Face: Ontario's Ticket Price Cap Just Discovered Face Value Doesn't Exist
Industry NewsPricing & Transparency

About Face: Ontario's Ticket Price Cap Just Discovered Face Value Doesn't Exist

Ontario is rewriting its rushed ticket resale cap after finding it unenforceable. What the face value fiasco teaches every event organiser about pricing.

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Resale Therapy: StubHub and viagogo Want to Sell Your Tickets First, Not Second
Event MarketingIndustry News

Resale Therapy: StubHub and viagogo Want to Sell Your Tickets First, Not Second

StubHub and viagogo just became official primary sales channels for TicketSocket organisers. What Open Distribution means for your fees, data and brand.

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Champagne Supernova Economics: What Britain's Record £11.2 Billion Music Tourism Year Teaches Event Organisers
Event Industry TrendsEvent Marketing

Champagne Supernova Economics: What Britain's Record £11.2 Billion Music Tourism Year Teaches Event Organisers

A record 24.7 million music tourists spent £11.2 billion in the UK last year. What the boom, and the festival die-off behind it, means for organisers.

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Pit Stop, Full Stop: What the Motorsport Tickets Collapse Means for Event Organisers
Industry NewsTicketing Industry

Pit Stop, Full Stop: What the Motorsport Tickets Collapse Means for Event Organisers

A motorsport ticket seller with 20 years on the clock just went into liquidation. What its collapse teaches every organiser about who holds ticket money.

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Order, Order: MPs Just Called the UK's Event Support Cuts Utterly Irrational
Conference IndustryEvent Industry Trends

Order, Order: MPs Just Called the UK's Event Support Cuts Utterly Irrational

Parliament's CMS Committee backs a national business events strategy and slams cuts to VisitBritain's events team. What the report means for organisers.

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Me and My Shadow: Why Bollywood's Biggest Names Just Backed an AI Event Discovery App
AI in EventsIndustry News

Me and My Shadow: Why Bollywood's Biggest Names Just Backed an AI Event Discovery App

Ex-Paytm Insider leaders raised $3.75m for thumpN, an AI-first event discovery platform. Why the money is moving to the moment before checkout.

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Stick Season for Scalpers: Vermont's Ticket Resale Cap Is Now Live
Industry NewsPricing & Transparency

Stick Season for Scalpers: Vermont's Ticket Resale Cap Is Now Live

Vermont's new ticket resale law is in force: 110% price caps, a spec ticketing ban and disclosure rules. What event organisers need to know.

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BYOAI: Event Tech's New House Rule Is Bring Your Own Robot
AI in EventsEvent Tech

BYOAI: Event Tech's New House Rule Is Bring Your Own Robot

Event tech platforms are ditching built-in AI and letting organisers plug in their own tools. What BYOAI means for your data, stack and sanity.

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Suits You: What Hyve Buying a Three-Year-Old Legal Event Means for Organisers
Conference IndustryEvent Industry Trends

Suits You: What Hyve Buying a Three-Year-Old Legal Event Means for Organisers

A three-year-old legal event just fielded three buyout offers and sold to Hyve. Why founder-led events with senior audiences are acquisition catnip.

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Open Sesame: The Public Gets 60 Days to Weigh In on the Great Ticketmaster Unlocking
Industry NewsPricing & Transparency

Open Sesame: The Public Gets 60 Days to Weigh In on the Great Ticketmaster Unlocking

The DOJ has opened public comment on its Ticketmaster settlement. Open ticketing, fee caps and a 275 day countdown: what organisers should take from it.

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Sew Far, Sew Good: The Bayeux Tapestry Just Broke the British Museum's Box Office
Event Industry TrendsIndustry News

Sew Far, Sew Good: The Bayeux Tapestry Just Broke the British Museum's Box Office

80,000 in the queue and £2.5m in a day: the Bayeux Tapestry just gave the British Museum its biggest ticketing day ever. Lessons for organisers inside.

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Honey, I Shrunk the Ticketing Giant: What TEG's Restructure Tells Every Event Organiser
Industry NewsTicketing Industry

Honey, I Shrunk the Ticketing Giant: What TEG's Restructure Tells Every Event Organiser

Ticketek's parent TEG is cutting jobs after losing two major venue contracts. What the great ticketing contract shuffle means for event organisers.

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Access All Areas: An AI Just Talked Its Way Into a Major Ticketing Platform
AI in EventsEvent Security

Access All Areas: An AI Just Talked Its Way Into a Major Ticketing Platform

A researcher used AI to bypass a firewall and gain admin access to a major ticketing platform. The real lesson is for every organiser with a vendor.

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Fiscal Attraction: Cvent Just Moved Its Fee Rises to July, and the Maths Deserves a Look
Conference IndustryIndustry News

Fiscal Attraction: Cvent Just Moved Its Fee Rises to July, and the Maths Deserves a Look

Cvent just shifted its per-registrant fee rises to July. Here is what the $7-a-head model really costs, and why the new timing is easy to miss.

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Nothing But Net Revenue: What Stanford's AI Pricing Win Means for Every Event Organiser
AI in EventsIndustry News

Nothing But Net Revenue: What Stanford's AI Pricing Win Means for Every Event Organiser

Stanford let AI set its ticket prices and it drove nearly a fifth of basketball revenue in one season. What it means for event organisers.

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Cookie Monster Pricing: When Your Browser Decides the Ticket Price
Industry NewsPricing & Transparency

Cookie Monster Pricing: When Your Browser Decides the Ticket Price

The same ticket, two prices, decided by your browser. StubHub's personalised pricing is here, and event organisers should be watching it closely.

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Catch the Fever: F1 Just Changed Its Ticketing Operator for the First Time in a Decade
Event TechIndustry News

Catch the Fever: F1 Just Changed Its Ticketing Operator for the First Time in a Decade

F1 named Fever its new ticketing supplier in a five-year deal. Here is what the switch reveals about the buyer journey for event organisers.

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Net Zero Hour: The Events Industry Just Gave Its Climate Promise a Full-Time Boss
Industry NewsSustainability in Events

Net Zero Hour: The Events Industry Just Gave Its Climate Promise a Full-Time Boss

Net Zero Carbon Events has hired its first dedicated director. Here is what the move signals for every organiser facing sustainability questions on their RFPs.

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The Deal Floor: Apollo's $1.5 Billion Bet That the Room Always Beats the Zoom
Conference IndustryIndustry News

The Deal Floor: Apollo's $1.5 Billion Bet That the Room Always Beats the Zoom

Apollo is merging Emerald and Questex into a 160-event B2B powerhouse. Here is what the $1.5 billion deal tells every organiser about where the industry is heading.

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The Double Squeeze: Two Big Surveys Just Confirmed What Every Event Organiser Already Knew
Event Industry TrendsIndustry News

The Double Squeeze: Two Big Surveys Just Confirmed What Every Event Organiser Already Knew

Two industry surveys dropped this week, and together they tell the same story: flat budgets, rising ROI demands, and a talent recruitment crisis squeezing the events sector from both ends.

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The Price Isn't Right: What BC's World Cup Ticketing Crackdown Tells Every Event Organiser
Industry NewsTicketing Industry

The Price Isn't Right: What BC's World Cup Ticketing Crackdown Tells Every Event Organiser

BC's consumer watchdog caught FIFA, Ticketmaster and Vivid Seats breaking ticket transparency laws. Here's what the World Cup crackdown means for event organisers everywhere.

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Block Party Flop: What the World Cup Hotel Crisis Teaches Every Event Organiser
Event Industry TrendsIndustry News

Block Party Flop: What the World Cup Hotel Crisis Teaches Every Event Organiser

FIFA blocked thousands of hotel rooms for the World Cup, then cancelled 70-80% of them. The fallout has lessons for every event organiser managing room blocks.

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Creches, Captioning and Calm Rooms: Why The Meetings Show Just Raised the Bar for Every Event Organiser
Conference IndustryIndustry News

Creches, Captioning and Calm Rooms: Why The Meetings Show Just Raised the Bar for Every Event Organiser

The UK's biggest gathering for events professionals opens 24 June with a staffed creche, AI captioning and a quiet room. Here is what every organiser should take notes on.

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Going, Going, Gone: The Great British Festival Die-Off and What It Means for Every Event Organiser
Event Industry TrendsIndustry News

Going, Going, Gone: The Great British Festival Die-Off and What It Means for Every Event Organiser

20 UK festivals cancelled or postponed in 2026. The economics squeezing independent festivals are the same ones hitting every event organiser. Here is what to take from it.

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One in Four: NOWIE's New Survey and What It Means for Event Organisers
Event Industry TrendsIndustry News

One in Four: NOWIE's New Survey and What It Means for Event Organisers

A landmark new survey is shining a light on safety and accountability for women in the £60bn events industry. Here is what every organiser needs to know.

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Bend It Like Eventbrite: What Bending Spoons' $20 Billion IPO Means for Event Organisers
Industry NewsTicketing Industry

Bend It Like Eventbrite: What Bending Spoons' $20 Billion IPO Means for Event Organisers

Bending Spoons is taking Eventbrite to the Nasdaq. Here is what its buy-and-revive playbook means for organisers using the platform.

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The Platform That Ate the Fair: What AudienceView's Saffire Acquisition Means for Event Organisers
Industry NewsTicketing Industry

The Platform That Ate the Fair: What AudienceView's Saffire Acquisition Means for Event Organisers

AudienceView has acquired Saffire in a deal spanning 2,800 venues and $3.5B in transactions. Here's what the consolidation wave means for event organisers choosing a platform.

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Spot the Fan: Spotify's Reserved Launch and What It Means for Every Event Organiser
Event TechIndustry News

Spot the Fan: Spotify's Reserved Launch and What It Means for Every Event Organiser

Spotify's Reserved feature holds concert tickets for superfans using streaming data. Here's what the data-driven launch reveals about the future of event loyalty.

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