40 percent of ticketing site traffic comes from bad bots

If you've ever tried to book tickets for a concert, festival or event you will know that it can be something of a frustrating experience, and bots could be making it even more so. New research from Distil Networks finds 39.9 percent of traffic on ticketing sites comes from bots used by brokers, scalpers, hospitality agencies, and sundry criminals to execute a number of attacks, including denial of inventory, spinning and scalping, scraping seat map inventory, fan account takeover, and fraud. "Although the ticketing industry has led the way in terms of bot legislation, as seen with the BOTS Act… [Continue Reading]