Execs point finger at Google over ticket resale
Viagogo was blocked from advertising on Google globally in July 2019, but the ban was quietly lifted four months later
News By James Hanley | 2 June 2023
Live music professionals have raised further questions about Google’s influence on the secondary ticketing market.
In a session at Primavera Pro in Barcelona yesterday (1 June), Neo Sala (Doctor Music), ticket resale specialist Nicole Jacobsen (previously tickets.de), Sam Shemtob (FEAT) and Scumeck Sabottka (MCT-Agentur) discussed how search engines host advertisements from unauthorised ticket resale platforms such as Viagogo, which appear at the top of the search page, above organic listings for official ticket sellers.
The panel noted how the…
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