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YouTube adds ticket links in the UK and Ireland
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 28 November 2019
YouTube has just added ticket listings to its platform in the UK and Ireland via partnerships with Ticketmaster, See Tickets and Eventbrite in order, it says, to make “music more accessible to fans” and to bring “more revenue to artists on the platform”.
The Google company has stuck ticket links right next to musical videos on its US site ever since 2017 in what cynics (OK, us) dubbed at the time as a “stop moaning about your royalties and we’ll help you sell stuff” strategy. Since then the “shut the fuck up” ticket links have also started appearing in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Confirming ticket links had now arrived here too, YouTube’s Artist Partnerships Manager for the UK and Ireland, Roz Mansfield, said yesterday: “At YouTube, we are focussed on both making music more accessible to fans and bringing more revenue to artists on the platform, so are delighted to be fulfilling our promise to bring our successful ticketing feature to the UK and Ireland”.
“As online viewership and engagement continues to grow”, she went on, “we want to help artists keep fans updated on their upcoming shows and sell more tickets. We hope this new feature helps connect fans with not only the global artists they love, but also will give them a chance to discover more intimate events with breakthrough local talent”.
All three of YouTube’s UK ticketing partners think the idea is just swell. Ticketmaster’s Peter Quinlan said “watchword”. Eventbrite’s Paul Everett chipped in “integrate”. And See Tickets Rob Wilmshurst shouted “powerful”. None of which tells you much out of context, I suppose. But rest assured, they all think it’s a swell idea.
