Eventbrite Advocacy

Eventbrite Advocacy

Join us in supporting policies that power live experiences and strengthen our communities

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Face the Music: The Time to Support the Fans First Act Is Now

In a Billboard guest column, Eventbrite Co-Founder & CEO Julia Hartz, together with National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) Executive Director Stephen Parker, calls for Congress to pass the Fans First Act. The bipartisan legislation will bring enforcement and transparency, prohibit deceptive websites, disclose resellers, and ban speculative ticketing.

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We’re One Step Closer to Comprehensive Ticketing Reform!

Responding to your voices and others throughout the country, the U.S. House of Representatives strengthened and passed H.R. 3950, the TICKET Act. Now the U.S. Senate must pass its bipartisan Fans First Act (S. 3457). The Fans First Act builds upon the TICKET Act with additional provisions to wholly ban speculative (fake) tickets, prohibit deceptive website imagery, increase mandatory reporting of illegal BOTS, require itemization of the ticket price and fees, and provide meaningful enforcement.

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Event Creators Promote Ticketing Reform

Hear from event creators about the importance of comprehensive live event ticketing reform and how you can engage with your own members of Congress.

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Protect Ticket Buyers

Clean up predatory and deceptive practices to protect the rights of ticket buyers and live event fans.
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Ease Creator Tax Burdens

Fix the burdensome IRS reporting threshold for payments for online services, including event ticket sales.
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Foster Social Connection

Create awareness of social isolation and how shared in-person experiences can foster meaningful social connection.
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Support Safe Gatherings

Stand up for policies that empower event organizers and support safe gatherings.
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About Eventbrite Advocacy

At Eventbrite, our mission is to bring the world together through live experiences. But our work doesn’t stop there. We advance public policies to support and celebrate the live events community, and we champion the powerful role of live events in our society: fostering social connection, powering local economies, and enriching our culture.

How We Take Action

Making an impact requires a multi-faceted approach. For each key policy area, we:

  • Communicate directly with lawmakers to help them better understand event creator, consumer,  and community needs.
  • Rally our event creators and consumers to actively support legislation that can advance key public policy goals.
  • Amplify our voices.
  • Provide resources to raise awareness of issues and opportunities that can affect positive policy change.

How to Use This Resource

We know you are busy. We hope this Hub makes it easy to quickly take action on issues that matter to you. Here’s what you can do next: 

  • Take action today by learning more about each policy issue and how it impacts your business.
  • Contact your lawmakers and tell them why these issues are important. For each policy priority, we have provided sample language and emails you can copy or customize to advocate with your lawmakers.
  • Share this resource with your networks. These priorities directly support both event creators and live event fans, and our voices are stronger together!

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Urge Congress to Pass Meaningful Ticketing Reform!

Congress made unprecedented progress toward bipartisan, comprehensive, live event ticketing reform legislation in late 2023. Urge your members of Congress to cosponsor and pass it to protect live event fans and ticket buyers. Both the Senate’s Fans First Act (S. 3457) and the House’s TICKET Act (H.R. 3950) mandate ticket pricing transparency, ban deceptive advertising and websites, and ban fake tickets!

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IRS Postpones Unnecessary IRS Reporting

Progress! In the wake of advocacy by Eventbrite, event creators, coalition partners, and other online sellers and payment transactors, the IRS recently announced another delay of the $600 reporting threshold for Form 1099-K. Event creators will therefore only receive a Form 1099-K if their 2023 sales exceed $20,000 and 200 transactions or are residents of a state with a lower reporting threshold. For tax year 2024, the IRS announced plans for a $5,000 reporting threshold.

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Working to Fix the Tix

Eventbrite has joined the steering committee to help lead Fix the Tix, a diverse coalition of 30-plus organizations that are committed to fostering fairness and transparency in ticketing through comprehensive federal legislation. Fix the Tix was founded by the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) and is composed of independent venues, the performing arts industry, artists, independent ticketing companies, the music industry, and labor organizations.

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Protect Ticket Buyers

While Eventbrite works to set the right example, live event fans deserve fair, honest, transparent, and reliable ticket-purchasing experiences. Speculative tickets, predatory resales, deceptive practices, and exorbitant price gouging have no place in the live event ecosystem. That’s why Eventbrite is partnering with independent venues and artists to urge Congress to pass comprehensive live event ticketing reforms. Join us.

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Save Creators from Unnecessary IRS Reporting

A new law means millions of Americans will face new IRS burdens for low-dollar online transactions. In this current 2023 tax year, the minimum IRS 1099-K reporting threshold for online sales drops from $20,000 in annual payments and 200 transactions to just $600 and one transaction. Join Eventbrite in telling Congress to fix this burdensome requirement this year!

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Check out our Safety Playbook for events

Eventbrite is thrilled to share our newly revamped Safety Playbook for Events! We’ve designed it in partnership with The Chertoff Group to help creators provide the safest environment for attendees and staff. While most events go off without a hitch, you can never be too prepared, and we’re here to help. Find more about Safe Gatherings below.

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Progress Toward Paid Family Leave

Eventbrite joined small business organizations and larger employers who support small businesses and entrepreneurs in a letter applauding the new Bipartisan Paid Family Leave Working Group in the US House of Representatives. As a creator and consumer advocate, we called for the voice of entrepreneurs and small businesses to be reflected in their policy development.

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Your Vote is Your Voice

Voting is central to individual expression in our democracy — it allows us to stand up for our beliefs, take action, and impact our communities. No matter what issue drives you or what policy is important to your community, your vote is your voice and every single voice deserves to be heard.

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Increase Civic Engagement in Your Community

Vote! To increase voter participation, we first need to make sure every eligible American is registered to vote. We’re asking community leaders like you to throw a voter registration party, which you can do by following these easy steps.

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Eventbrite Joins NIVA to Celebrate #SaveOurStages

Eventbrite partnered with the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) to host an exclusive reception in Washington D.C. to thank members of Congress for their bipartisan leadership on the 2021Save Our Stages Act – a lifeline to independent venues during the pandemic.

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