Welcome to Pollstar’s and VenuesNow’s annual Impact International: UK/Euro edition, which once again celebrates our colleagues across the Atlantic who are making great strides, championing worthy causes, and excelling in their respective line of work. Continue Reading 2024 Impact International: UK/Euro
LOS ANGELES, California — Crypto.com Arena will be hard pressed to top its 238 events over the past fiscal year — a record for the 25-year-old venue — despite greater date flexibility with the loss of the Los Angeles Clippers. Continue Reading Content in play at Crypto.com Arena
PHOENIX, Arizona — Corey Mintz was caught off guard when he found out the Seattle Mariners had signed a deal with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe for naming rights to T-Mobile Park’s diamond club, a high-profile premium space situated behind home plate at the Major League Baseball stadium. Continue Reading Expect the unexpected for naming rights
Casey's General Store, the Iowa-born convenience store chain that forged its brand into the pop culture mainstream through its creative take on the most important meal of the day, took over naming rights for the 16,000-capacity arena in Des Moines. It's a 10-year deal, valued at a total of $18 million. Continue Reading Casey’s in store for naming rights
Key figures in the Toronto music industry came out Nov. 12 to Toronto’s Hotel X to see how Loft Entertainment and Oak View Group (parent company of Pollstar and VenuesNow) are taking long-running industry conference and festival Canadian Music Week into the future. Continue Reading Canadian Music Week Rebranded As Departure Fest
What was supposed to be a celebration to conclude the Copa America soccer tournament at Hard Rock Stadium on Sunday became a security nightmare with unruly fans, many without tickets, forcing their way into the NFL facility by storming the gates, climbing on top of the box office roof to reach a pedestrian ramp, and most shockingly, crawling into the building's ventilation system. Continue Reading Prep questioned for chaotic Copa final
TOO LATE: UFC 295, which took place in November 2023, is among the events listed in an email scam offering two free tickets for Ticketmaster customers who were victims in July’s massive data breach of the ticketing firm. (Getty Images) Life is imitating art in the bizarro world of live entertainment. The massive Ticketmaster data breach that took place in July is now manifesting itself in phishing scams offering two free tickets to sports events and concerts to customers whose personal data was stolen in the breach. An email forwarded to VenuesNow on Wednesday from a Ticketmaster customer showed a message tagged with “Ticketmaster data breach — IMPORTANT UPDATE” in the subject line. VenuesNow forwarded the email to Ticketmaster officials as requested and they confirmed that the email was fake and not issued by the company. The bogus email, featuring a plain blue Ticketmaster header, contains a message that starts… Continue Reading Scam: free tix tied to Ticketmaster breach
After wrapping up 50 shows to mark its 50th anniversary, the 600-capacity Belly Up Tavern now coasts into what is the legendary North San Diego County busiest time of the year. Continue Reading Belly Up’s 50th Coasting Into December
