Ticketmaster

The Brooklyn venue replaced Ticketmaster, the industry leader, in 2021 in favor of SeatGeek, a competitor. It is not clear why it changed direction again.

At the time, Live Nation did not admit to any wrongdoing, and [said](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/arts/music/live-nation-ticketmaster-settlement-justice-department.html) that extending the decree was “the best outcome for our business, clients and shareholders.” Tracking the blips and dips in tour dates for concert venues can be an inexact science. The agreement, known as a consent decree, was extended by five years in 2020 after federal regulators found that Live Nation had “ But SeatGeek, and other ticketing companies, all still lag far behind Ticketmaster, which sold $485 million in tickets in 2019, the last year of business unaffected by the Covid-19 pandemic, an amount that swamps its competitors. Since 2019, BSE Global has been owned by Joseph Tsai, a Taiwanese-born tech billionaire, who bought out its previous owner, the Russian mogul Mikhail Prokhorov. “I can’t think of a time over the last decade where a major venue has dropped a ticketing platform early on in the deal cycle.” When BSE Global announced its SeatGeek deal, which took effect in October 2021, the venue company The president of SeatGeek, Danielle du Toit, expressed no upset at Barclays’ change of direction. Since its founding in 2009, SeatGeek has positioned itself as an industry disrupter. SeatGeek, which remains the ticketer for many events already on Barclays’s calendar, will gradually be replaced by Ticketmaster in coming months as new concerts and sporting events go on sale. Neither BSE Global nor SeatGeek would comment about whether there were any problems with ticketing that may have prompted a switch. “Ticketing platform deals with venue owners are not of short duration,” Mr.