Ask HN: Why has no one replaced Ticketmaster?
Ticketmaster has exclusive deals with artists and venues.<p>Artists not signing deals with Ticketmaster lose access to venues, and venues not signing exclusivity deals with Ticketmaster lose access to artists.<p>There are enough of these on both sides that neither wants to lose the other so they sign.<p>Side note: I worked at a small ticketing software shop circa the Ticketmaster/LiveNation merger. The CEO got a call from the feds(FTC?) doing background work on the industry's view on how it might affect competition. For the life of me I can't imagine why he said it wouldn't really matter, but I have to assume that Ticketmaster was already so locked in to the industry that perhaps it didn't.