Concert Ticket Chaos Explained: Bots and What Artists Are Doing About Them

Buying concert tickets has started to feel like an extreme sport, and there is finally hard data explaining why. In one recent high-profile sale, 96% of traffic came from bots, meaning only 138,000 of 3.3 million requests came from legitimate fans, according to Queue-it. That imbalance is why federal regulators are suing, why artists are […]