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Celebrating 15 Years of Moshtix

Written by Jay-Dee Pitcaithly on 10th November, 2018
Celebrating 15 Years of Moshtix

Turning 15 is a big deal, especially in the Australian ticketing industry which is heavily dominated by Ticketmaster and Ticketek, accounting for 80 per cent of all live entertainment tickets sold in the country.

"When Moshtix started in 2003, online ticketing was really just starting to evolve which created an opportunity for new entrants like Moshtix and Oztix who weren't required to invest in the same physical distribution infrastructure as the bigger players."

We've been one of only a handful of independent ticketing companies to bridge the gap and remain competitive against the big players.

Our CEO Harley Evans, a seasoned ticketing veteran with experience in the UK and his homeland, New Zealand, sat down with The Industry Observer to discuss our future plans and continual evolvement of the industry.

A hot topic in the industry at this time is around scalping and resale. What do you think the solution is to curbing touts and creating a legitimate resale market?

Blockchain technology appears to offer a path that will protect buyers and sellers of tickets and legitimise the secondary market. But it's an emerging technology and expensive at present. I'm a big believer in providing event-goers with a safe platform to re-sell their tickets at face value or less, to discourage the rogue scalping behaviours we're now seeing...

Read the full interview HERE!


 Read Full Interview Here 


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