Segment
Ticketing
Companies whose revenue comes from selling, distributing or reselling admission to live events, principally through service fees charged on the transaction.
- Status
- Sub-index not released
- Method version
- 1.0
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-22
This page publishes the segment's eligibility rule and boundary. No sub-index level, constituent list or weight is reported, because none has been measured.
Why this segment exists
Ticketing revenue is a take rate applied to a transaction the promoter and venue originate. That makes it a high-margin, fee-driven exposure to the same attendance base as promotion, with a different risk profile: a ticketing company is exposed to volume and to fee levels, but not to the guarantee.
It is also the segment most exposed to regulation. Federal all-in pricing rules and the pending antitrust record change what may be charged and how it must be displayed, which is a revenue question and not only a compliance one.
Eligibility
A company is assigned here when all hold
- The company reports revenue from primary ticket distribution, secondary marketplace activity, or ticketing technology licensed to venues and promoters.
- The revenue is transaction-linked rather than a flat software subscription unrelated to admissions volume.
- Live-event ticketing can be separated from ticketing for non-live categories in the disclosure.
Outside the boundary
- General-purpose payment processors are excluded even where events are a large customer category.
- Travel and attraction booking platforms are excluded unless live-event admissions are disclosed separately.
Qualifying activities
- Primary ticket sale and distribution
- Secondary-market resale platforms
- White-label ticketing systems licensed to venues
- Access control and scanning tied to admissions revenue
Constituents
None. A company is listed here only once its live-revenue exposure has been measured from a primary document and the index has been released. Candidate records held to prove the record schema are withheld from publication and are not named on this page.