Event Ticketing Platforms Charge High Commissions and Override Organizer Branding
Independent event organizers lose significant revenue to ticketing platform commissions while having their brand identity subordinated to the platform's. Operational fragmentation across disconnected tools for ticketing, marketing, and check-in adds further friction. The dominant platforms optimize for their own revenue at the expense of organizer autonomy.
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