How to Get Free Tickets to Concerts (5 ways)

 Marketing is huge when coming to concert touring and concert season is coming up as well as festival season so here is how you can get free tickets and it could be easier than you think...

1. Radio Giveaways

Social media, concert announcements, street team activities all have free ticket opportunities for multiple concerts. Social media, sometimes its random winners from their comment sections or calling into a number or chosen from a mailing list....Concert announcements have dozens of tickets given out per station. Hundreds of free tickets for the year per station....Also they have other free item giveaways and gifting stuff like purses and other promos and events too.....shoutout iHeartRadio... They also have meet and greets for up and coming acts as well as small performances as well....

2. Social Media Giveaways 

The band gives away free tickets sometimes, sometimes the label gives out free tickets and sometimes there are partnerships with other companies too with ticket giveaways. Social media also has tons of promo codes out there too for discounts. Ticketmasters $25 ticket week is hugeeee don't forget that....Also Groupon is huge too....crazy discounts there...

3. Venue staff 

Sometimes an usher manager sees a superfan and has tickets to upgrade whenever they like! Also managers in venues who are full time get free tickets to shows and if you're friends with them they have tickets to spare. They are working the concerts a lot of the time and sometimes going to a concert ends up feeling like work haha.

4. Know someone from Livenation

They are given 10 free shows a year I believe for employees and even though they are not like venue staff and don't work the shows, its always worth a shot for a free show...Livenation employs a million people it seems..

5. Know someone in the band or works with the band

Knowing a musician or video tech or dancer is huge, and you could be put on a guest list if they are close by you or you're willing to travel. You could get tickets, you could also head back stage too! tours are set aside a block of tickets per stop and release the extra if they don't need them!

Like beside putting in paperwork to being media or a photographer or actually applying to work at a venue there a lot of different options....Some sites have said using credit card points or volunteering at the event or looking for resellers...huge companies do send out influencers to free shows and stuff so that's a huge marketing plan people do. Similar to the Super Bowl, huge companies buy out skyboxes to fill with influencers to promote their business or coloration with their audience. Concerts, a company will buy out a box or floor seat to promote their business saying "thank you Pepsi for the free tickets to Billy Eilish". There are seat fillers for things like iHeartRadio Music Festival and stuff for live production stuff, unpaid I think on 1iota. Seatstir you pay a subscription tho....