Tickets for almost 300 events, including small independent venues, were found being touted on Viagogo.

Podcast Episode · Drowned in Sound · 19/11/2025 · 56m

Band urges fans to avoid secondary sites, where more than 1,000 potentially fraudulent tickets for their shows have been found

Band urges fans to avoid secondary sites, where more than 1,000 potentially fraudulent tickets for their shows have been found

Band urges fans to avoid secondary sites, where more than 1,000 potentially fraudulent tickets for their shows have been found Radiohead have condemned ticket resale sites and “exploitative” touts who use them after more than 1,000 potentially fraudulent tickets for the band’s upcoming tour were advertised online before they had even gone on sale. The rock quintet implemented strict measures designed to limit touts’ ability to buy up tickets for shows in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid and Bologna, announced to the delight of fans earlier this month. Continue reading...

Experiences of booking for big London gigs underscore the opaque practices of some online platforms

Experiences of booking for big London gigs underscore the opaque practices of some online platforms

Experiences of booking for big London gigs underscore the opaque practices of some online platforms When Danny bought tickets to see Deftones in Crystal Palace Park he was not expecting to be initiated into an apparent subterfuge. Yet shortly before the south London gig, Viagogo, the resale platform that sold him the tickets, sent him a scanned copy of a passport ID page belonging to a Dutchman he had never met. Continue reading...

Experiences of booking for big London gigs underscore the opaque practices of some online platforms

The resale platform for entry to concerts, theatres and sport has its eyes on a US listing, but is under threat in Britain

Expert says ‘reason to suspect industrial-scale criminality’ as TGCES lists 306 Sheffield tickets for up to £248 each

Operators of secondary sites warn limit would have unintended consequences

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Operators of secondary sites warn limit would have unintended consequences

Operators of secondary sites warn limit would have unintended consequences

Operators of secondary sites warn limit would have unintended consequences

The UK's FanFair Alliance, the music campaign against industrial-scale online ticket touting, the Music Managers Forum, UK Music, and trade body LIVE, have

For twelve weeks earlier this year the UK government was accepting submissions about how it should regulate secondary ticketing. During that time ticket resale platform Viagogo continued to “engage in...

FanFair Alliance says it has catalogued a series of alleged offences by the resale site, including spec selling and breaches of consumer law

Sean Farrington discusses the latest on tariffs and takes a look at ticket touts.

For twelve weeks earlier this year the UK government was accepting submissions about how it should regulate secondary ticketing. During that time ticket resale platform Viagogo continued to “engage in...

Listings on resale site suggest that touts are speculatively selling tickets they do not yet have

Viagogo has been given yet another slap on this wrist - this time over a misleading promotional segment as part of the ‘Political Currency’ podcast from Westminster double act Ed Balls and George Osbo...

A Viagogo ad campaign was rapped by the UK's advertising watchdog recently after a complaint from FanFair Alliance.

Listings on resale site suggest that touts are speculatively selling tickets they do not yet have

Listings on resale site suggest that touts are speculatively selling tickets they do not yet have

Following a complaint instigated by FanFair Alliance, viagogo has been reprimanded by the Advertising Standards Authority for misleading claims made during an April 2024 episode of the Political Curre...

Regulator rejects claim by presenters that most events on the resale site had tickets selling at below face value George Osborne and Ed Balls read out a “misleading” advert for the controversial ticket resale website Viagogo during an episode of their podcast, the advertising regulator has ruled. The two men, who put aside their past rivalry at the dispatch box to launch a podcast in 2023, espoused the benefits of the “secondary” ticketing site in a promotion during an episode broadcast in April last year. Continue reading...

Regulator rejects claim by presenters that most events on the resale site had tickets selling at below face value

Regulator rejects claim by presenters that most events on the resale site had tickets selling at below face value

Regulator rejects claim by presenters that most events on the resale site had tickets selling at below face value