{"id":639253,"date":"2026-10-23T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639253\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T18:34:10","slug":"under-the-radar-wraps-up-ticketing-service-due-to-pace-of-future-tech-and-ai-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/639253\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Radar wraps up ticketing service due to &#8216;pace of future tech and AI threats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"[&amp;_em]:font-serif-text-italic [&amp;_cite]:font-serif-text-italic\">Current ticketing was valid but UTR will not accept future ticket bookings.<\/p>\n<p>For artists looking for other ticketing services Fincham said there were many out there including Eventfinda, Flicket and iTicket locally, and international platform Humantix.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Sad for the local music community&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ journalist and record label boss at The Big Fresh Collective, Liam Swiggs, said he&#8217;s been using UTR to sell tickets to their local shows for the better part of a decade, since they first started throwing gigs.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks losing UTR as a ticketing service &#8220;will leave a giant hole&#8221; in a creative scene which is already really struggling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;ll just take more money and mana out of our own backyard,&#8221; Swiggs said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current ticketing was valid but UTR will not accept future ticket bookings. For artists looking for other ticketing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-639253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}