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TicketNetwork sells the seat. The real business is the network.
A ticket broker and a software developer turned scattered inventory into a distribution business. Now TicketNetwork wants the same ticket to travel through many storefronts - with some expensive lessons about what buyers must be told.
The Club That Sold Tickets to the Giant
TicketWeb gave independent rooms a box office they could run themselves. Then it joined Ticketmaster, turning a small-venue tool into a doorway to a much larger audience.
The Ticket Site That Put the Checkout Total on the First Screen
TickPick built a ticket marketplace around one small act of retail honesty: the number you see is the number you pay. Now it is using that promise to move from resale app to a broader live-events platform.
SeatGeek
SeatGeek is a New York-based ticketing company that runs a mobile-first marketplace for live sports, concerts and theater alongside an enterprise platform that powers primary ticketing for teams, leagues and venues. It is best known for Deal Score, an algorithm that rates every listing by price and seat value, and it competes with Ticketmaster and StubHub across both the primary and secondary ticket markets.
CrowdVolt
CrowdVolt is a New York-based, Y Combinator-backed marketplace that lets fans buy and sell tickets to live events - starting with raves and EDM concerts - through a bid-ask model similar to StockX. Buyers name the price they are willing to pay, sellers set an ask, and trades clear automatically when the two meet. The platform handles secure payments and automated ticket transfers to cut fraud, inflated fees, and the opacity of the traditional resale market.
StubHub International
StubHub International is the non-North American arm of the StubHub ticketing brand, operating online secondary marketplaces where fans buy and sell tickets to concerts, sports, theatre and festivals across the UK, Germany, Spain, France and dozens of other markets. Carved out of viagogo's StubHub acquisition by a 2021 UK regulator-mandated divestiture and now owned by Boston-based Digital Fuel Capital, the company runs from operational hubs in London, Madrid, Bilbao and Berlin, backing every transaction with its FanProtect guarantee.