Twickets and the Ticket Trust team up

Mobile secondary ticketing platform Twickets and the Association Of Independent Festivals (AIF) backed ethical ticket exchange The Ticket Trust have announced a strategic alliance. Together, the two platforms will aim to offer better access to face-value ticket resales as the summer festival season kicks off. Ben Turner, Co-founder and Vice Chair of AIF, which launched The Ticket Trust in partnership with direct-to-fan platform Sandbag in 2011 said: "As we move into 2014 secondary ticketing continues to dominate the live music agenda, pushing up prices for music fans and potentially stunting independent festival growth. This partnership is a fantastic step in combating secondary ticketing and gives any tickets listed on our Ticket Trust exchange platform added exposure, to the tune of 200,000 fans!"

Radiohead and Eden Sessions join TicketTrust

Following on from last week's 'Dispatches' exposé on the UK's secondary ticketing market, ethical fan-to-fan ticket exchange' Ticket Trust has announced two new partners – Radiohead and the Eden Sessions. The Association Of Independent Festivals launched the Ticket Trust last year, in partnership with D2F company Sandbag to allow fans to avoid touts and secondary ticketing sites (which may well be the same thing it seems!) and Radiohead have now appointed the website as the sanctioned platform where their fans should resell tickets to any future shows if they are unable to attend after purchase. Meanwhile Eden Sessions is the latest festival to also appoint the site as its official resale partner. The Ticket Trust is at www.thetickettrust.com