A year after Una buy, Sky Tickets defunct

Sky has quietly wound down its event ticketing division, IQ understands, with former Sky Tickets clients securing new partners and its director moving to Really Useful

News By | 8 September 2017

The Sky Tickets website as it appeared in February

Less than a year after announcing its first music-industry partnerships, Sky Tickets – the fledgling entertainment/sports ticketing division of broadcast giant Sky UK Ltd – is no longer doing business, multiple sources have told IQ.

Sky Tickets was, along with Amazon UK’s Amazon Tickets and Alibaba’s Tao Piao Piao/Damai.cn, one of several new ticketing ventures launched by major multinationals in recent years, and appeared to be laying the groundwork for expansion in the live music space with last year’s acquisition…

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