is more than a destination for finding out where and when your favourite artist is playing next.

Hogarth claims that other sites often won't be as transparent, since revenue is based on a percentage of the ticket price – in other words, the more expensive the ticket, the more profit. 'That way they'll know if there are still primary tickets available.' 'We only deal with the bigger secondary ticketers like Viagogo, Seatwave and GetMeIn – and we do make sure that the fan is aware if they're buying from the secondary market, as we put those tickets on separate pages,' says Hogarth. However, he accepts that they exist and that some fans are willing to pay more for being able to get in to a sold-out gig. What about secondary ticket vendors (or fan-to-fan platforms, as they often like to call themselves)? Like many concertgoers, Hogarth doesn't appear to be a big fan of them. Company CEO and founder Ian Hogarth is eager to point out that though Songkick gets a cut from each sale, the fan does not pay any more. Users can click straight through to the ticket vendor to purchase tickets, which is how Songkick makes their money. Songkick's close connection with ticket vendors is not only important for getting up-to-date info on upcoming gigs. Fans also add more 'in-the-know' gigs that don't go through ticket vendors, such as in-store shows at Rough Trade.

To reach such high figures, they use webcrawling for gathering data from 90 ticketing sites every day – anything from a small vendor in Norway to Ticketmaster.

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