Ticketing 101 | Ticketmaster

Help Concerts Sports Family VIP Deals Sell Sign In Help When you buy a ticket, you are supporting your favorite live events, like your favorite sports team, Broadway shows, concerts, and family-friendly entertainment. We want you to know how the ticketing process works — and how we think it could be better for fans, artists, performers and teams. Who Owns the Tickets to Your Favorite Live Events? Tickets sold on Ticketmaster belong to the people putting on the event - aka “Event Organizers” - like performing artists, sports teams and venues. Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace, and we partner with Event Organizers to make their tickets available through our marketplace, which includes websites, apps and Fan Support centers across 29 countries. The Difference Between a Presale and an Onsale Date Before tickets go on sale, Event Organizers tell us how many tickets they want to make available, the price of the ticket, and when they want the sale, or sales, to start. In...