For ticket brokers
How do ticket brokers track primary inventory?
Ticket brokers track primary inventory by reading how many seats the primary market still has open in each section, and how fast they are taken. Ticker records primary seats taken by section and how that changed over time, beside the resale asking prices for the same event.
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What brokers read
- Open seats by section
- How many seats each section has open on the primary market, with the lowest, median and highest price and the section's capacity. Max and Ultra include primary seats.
- Seats taken over time
- The share of each section taken, and how it changed. Compare two moments to see which sections lost the most open seats.
- Sale windows
- How many seats each presale and the public on sale released. The seat map's time control marks each window.
- General admission
- How many tickets each general admission section had open over time.
- Face price
- The lowest and median primary price, before and after fees.
Across the market
- Taken fastest
- Events, or the sections inside them, ranked by primary seats taken over the last hour, 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days.
- Seats left
- A screen across every event on the share of capacity the primary market still has on sale, or on how that share changed over 7 days.
- Resale vs face value
- The lowest resale price after fees against the lowest primary price after fees, as one number you can screen and sort on.
- A View
- Save the screen as a View. It follows every event that fits your rule, and tells you when a new one enters.
Primary beside resale
Ticker joins 8 resale marketplaces and 3 primary markets into one event record. For each section it carries the resale asking prices, before and after fees, and completed resale sales by section and row. Read a section's open primary seats beside what resale sellers ask in it. Primary and secondary data
What you can ask your AI
- Across the market
- Which events had the most primary seats taken in the last 24 hours?
- One event
- How many seats are open in each section of this event on the primary market, and at what price?
- The on sale
- How many seats did the public on sale release, and how many are open now?
- Beside resale
- In the sections with primary seats open, what do resale sellers ask?
Where you read it
- The app
- The event page: the section map with primary and resale on one map, and its time control. The screener and Views read across events.
- Your AI
- Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and Perplexity connect to Ticker. Can ChatGPT see live ticket prices?
- The API
- Ultra includes API access. Ticket data API
Questions brokers ask next
Questions
- How do ticket brokers track primary inventory?
- They read how many seats the primary market still has open in each section, and how fast those seats are taken. Ticker shows both, beside the resale asking prices for the same event, in the app, your AI or the API.
- Can I see which events are taken fastest on the primary market?
- Yes. Ticker ranks events, and the sections inside them, by primary seats taken over the last hour, 6 hours, 24 hours or 7 days, across the market.
- Can Ticker tell me when primary seats run low?
- Yes. Screen events by the share of capacity the primary market still has on sale, save the screen as a View, and Ticker tells you when a new event enters it.
- Can I compare primary and resale in the same section?
- Yes. Read a section's open primary seats and face price, then what resale sellers ask in that section, before and after fees. Resale vs face value puts the two lowest prices after fees in one number you can screen on.
- Does Ticker count the seats each presale released?
- Yes. Ticker counts the seats each sale window released, for every stated presale and the public on sale, and marks each window on the seat map's time control.
- Which plans include primary inventory?
- Max and Ultra include primary seats. Ultra includes them through the API.