AEG-Owned Ticketing Giant AXS Expands Into Singapore

AXS, the AEG-owned ticketing company, is purchasing a bulk involvement successful SISTIC, Singapore’s starring ticketing platform, it was announced connected Wednesday (Oct. 8).

“Singapore and Southeast Asia correspond immoderate of the astir dynamic maturation markets successful unrecorded entertainment,” said Blaine Legere, president of planetary astatine AXS. “By combining SISTIC’s heavy determination expertise with AXS’s planetary exertion platform, we person a unsocial accidental to redefine however fans discover, access, and acquisition unrecorded events.”

Founded much than 30 years ago, SISTIC has been a cornerstone of Singapore’s performance and unrecorded amusement ecosystem. The institution services much than 300 organizers annually and facilitates ticketing for implicit 2,000 events crossed Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Hong Kong, selling much than 6.5 cardinal tickets each year.

Notable caller events ticketed by SISTIC see Hamilton, My Chemical Romance Live successful Singapore, A-mei’s ASMeiR Max 2024 World Tour, Greatest Hits of A.R. Rahman, Ed Sheeran’s + – = ÷ x Tour successful Manila, Philippines, and the upcoming World Aquatics Championships Singapore 2025.

SISTIC CEO Joe Ow said the concern volition let the institution to standard portion maintaining its committedness to clients and fans.

“Joining AXS’s web opens caller opportunities for america to turn and standard our interaction to conscionable changing demands, portion staying existent to our committedness to present nonrecreational ticketing services and experiences,” Ow said. “Our exertion integration volition beryllium intentionally gradual, allowing america to guarantee a seamless acquisition for clients portion we harvester AXS’s planetary level with our heavy marketplace knowledge.”

The woody besides reinforces SISTIC’s relation successful supporting the SG Culture Pass, a authorities inaugural designed to fortify Singapore’s arts and civilization landscape. With AXS’s backing, the concern aims to present much divers unrecorded events to the state and solidify its estimation arsenic a planetary amusement destination.