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Ebay-owned StubHub acquires Zvents for event listings

by treyp on 12/15/11, 11:03 PM with 1 comments

• by MagicClam on 12/16/11, 12:45 AM

  For people in the events/ticketing space, this is a big deal. Zvents doesn't get a ton of press, but they are a major player in how people find long tail events on the web, thanks to the fact they power the local section for hundreds of major websites, particularly newspapers.

  Right now, StubHub only has bigger events held at "real" venues, whereas Zvents has an index of long tail events that's perhaps 10x bigger than StubHub's. The thing is, StubHub is a secondary marketplace for tickets, and there's basically no secondary market for these long tail events. So does this mean that ebay/StubHub wants to stop limiting themselves to the secondary market?