Ticketmaster, Eventbrite to sell tickets through Facebook
As the world's leading social network opens itself up to ecommerce, the two ticket agencies are ready to take advantage
News By IQ | 12 April 2016
Following Facebook’s announcement in December that it would start selling concert tickets directly through its event pages via a ‘buy tickets’ button, the social media behemoth has signed up its first two ticketing partners: Ticketmaster and Eventbrite.
The former will start selling event tickets on Facebook by the end of April as part of an agreement that will see it pay the social network an affiliate fee for each ticket it sells, while Eventbrite will pilot a similar scheme but will not pay any fees…