How to Use the On Sale Reports for Ticket Broker Research

New and improved On Sale Reports have just launched!

What are On Sale Reports?

On Sale Reports give you more insights about events going on sale soon and help you streamline your ticket broker research. Every event in the On Sale List links to its own On Sale Report, so just click on the event name you want to learn more about.

Insights are loaded dynamically and change with each event, pulling data from multiple sources.

On Sale Reports will load in a new tab when clicked. This allows you to research multiple events at once and easily return to the On Sale List.

Click an Event Name to load the On Sale Report.

Let’s take a look at what’s included in the On Sale Reports and how they can help streamline your ticket broker research.

Here’s What The New On Sale Reports Look Like!

Box Office Fox New On Sale Reports!

Event Basics

The event basics gives you an at a glance preview of the event and includes information like:

• Event image
• Event name which links to the ticket provider so you can buy face value tickets
• The venue
• City
• State
• Event date
• Event time
• Music genre

Face Value Ticket Prices

Click on the logo of the ticket provider to buy face value tickets. When available, we also display the face value ticket price range here. All prices are in USD.

Ai Ticket Reselling Predictions

Our system can automatically predict if an event is hot for resale. Depending on the outcome, you’ll see either a gold, grey, or red robot.

These predictions are powered by artificial intelligence and are an easy way to filter through the noise and see the hottest tickets going on sale soon. Whether you’re new to becoming a ticket broker, or maybe you’re not familiar with a certain genre of music, our Ai ticket reselling predictions will help you discover hot artists currently on tour to resell tickets for.

I love listening to every type of music, and have music on from morning until night, but I still find myself discovering new artists with Box Office Fox. Case in point the example for this post: Phoebe Bridgers.

Gold = there is strong historical demand for this event, artist, or venue.

Grey  = we don’t have enough information to make a prediction either way.

Red = there is NOT a strong demand for this event.

Learn more about how the Ai ticket reselling predictions work. 

Look for the gold robot to indicate strong demand for this event!

Shazam Score Insights

The Shazam Score shows how often an artist is getting Shazzamed on a score of 1 to 5. Shazam is a music app that allows you to discover the name and artist of a song playing around you. Just hold your phone up the speaker, let the Shazam app listen, and it will tell you the name and artist of the song. The higher the score here, the more popular an artist is.

Learn more about how Shazam Insights work.

Google Trends Insights

Google Trends shows how often an artist is being searched for on Google, on a score of 1 to 5. The higher the score, the more people are currently searching for this artist.

Learn more about how Google Trends Insights work.

Venue Capacity

If we have the venue capacity available, we’ll show it here, along with the logo or image of the venue. Knowing the venue size is an important factor for ticket resale so you’ll always want to take that into consideration.

If you’re reselling tickets, there are a few factors that you should consider with the venue size:

1. Is the artist new, relatively unknown, and still playing small venues?
2. Has the artist played small venues in the past, and is now playing bigger ones? Can they meet demand at bigger venues?
3. Did the artist once play bigger venues and is now playing smaller venues because they’re on the downswing of their career?
4. Is a hot artist playing several shows at a small venue?
5. Is there room for added dates?
6. Is the seating chart configured to fill the whole venue? The capacity does not always indicate how many tickets will be sold. Always look at the seating chart on the ticket provider’s event page.

Google Maps

Check out the Google Map to see where the venue is in North America. In the top left you’ll see the address and the reviews of the venue.

If you’re reselling tickets it’s always a good idea to be familiar with the venue, so check out the reviews and see what fans are saying. Some brokers specialize and only sell tickets for specific venues. Go with what you know.

This is also a good opportunity to research the hometown/state of the artist. You’ll want to target hometown shows for resale.

Presale Passwords & On Sale Times

Here’s where you’ll see the presale passwords and on sale times for when tickets go on sale.

• Green indicates the presale or onsale is currently happening.
• Grey indicates the presale or onsale has expired.
• Yellow indicates the presale or onsale is happening soon.

We’ll also show what type of presale is happening, or if it’s a general public on sale.

If we have the presale password, we’ll post it here as well.

Passwords are in green and you can click to copy them to your clipboard for easy access on the ticket provider page.

You can also star onsale times that are of interest to you for easy access later. You can access your starred events in your Favorites List.

Presale Passwords, Presale Types, and On Sale Times

Tour Schedule

Here’s where you’ll see other events on the tour schedule for that artist along with dates and venue capacities.

Look at the venue sizes to identify opportunities where you can buy tickets for smaller shows. But beware as there may be a second show added to the schedule which can squash profits.

Take a look at the tour schedule and see where there is potential room for added shows before you buy. You’ll need to account for travel time and days off for the artist, but if there are large gaps in the schedule that’s where additional shows could be added.

Watch on YouTube

The YouTube playlist will automatically populate with videos for that artist. This is a great way to discover their style of music and who they are. And also to get sidetrack watching videos…

Listen on iTunes

You can listen to 30 second snippets of the artist’s music here. Just like with YouTube, this is a great way to quickly research the type of music the artist performs.

Wikipedia Bio

This section attempts to pull the artist’s biography from their Wikipedia page. Please note that this section is under development and can pull unwanted results if the artist doesn’t have a Wikipedia page. This is a good opportunity to get a quick overview of who the artist is.

Get Your Ticket Broker Research Done Faster

There you have it! These On Sale Reports are designed to help streamline your ticket broker research and discover profitable tickets to resell. Do you have any ideas for what else you’d like to see on these pages? Let us know in the comments below.

What’s Next?

Thank you for reading the Box Office Fox User Manual!

Now, go check out the On Sale List, experiment with it, let us know your feedback, get some presale passwords to help get you first access to tickets, discover some profitable events to resell tickets for, and while you’re at it, go enjoy a show yourself – you’ve earned it!