Creating a non-profit, city-affiliated ticketing platform for small and mid-size venues to avoid exorbitant fees and retain control.
Breaking Ticketmasters Stranglehold: A Municipal Ticketing Platform
Monopolistic ticketing companies extract huge fees from artists and fans, driving up costs and limiting venue autonomy. Mamdanis administration creates NYC Tickets, a non-profit, publicly supported ticketing platform for small to mid-sized music venues, theaters, and comedy clubs. The platform charges a minimal fee to cover operations, with profits reinvested into the arts. It offers user-friendly features, protects against scalping with fair practices, and gives venues full control over their pricing and customer data.
By providing a low-cost, ethical alternative, the city breaks a corporate stranglehold on culture, keeps more money in the pockets of artists and venues, and makes events more affordable for fans. Culture shouldnt be gatekept by a monopoly that gouges everyone involved, Mamdani states. NYC Tickets is a public utility for culture. Its how we take back control of the means of distribution and ensure that the value created by artists stays in the artistic community.
