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Nearly $3 Billion Group Revenue: CTS Eventim Posts Record 2024 Results

The Smashing Pumpkins Perform At Lucca Summer Festival
Kiki Wong, Jack Bates, Billy Corgan Jimmy Chamberlin, James Iha, and Katie Kole of The Smashing Pumpkins perform at Lucca Summer Festival on July 6, 2024 in Lucca, Italy โ€“ one of the many events contributing to CTS Eventimโ€™s record 2024 results. (Photo by Francesco Prandoni/Getty Images)

CTS Eventim continued to grow across all business segments in 2024, ensuring that the group achieved new record levels of revenue, according to its preliminary year-end figures.

CTS Eventimโ€™s business year ended with a โ€œvery strong fourth quarter of 2024,โ€ according to the press release summarizing the groupโ€™s earnings.

Consolidated revenue rose by 19,1% year on year to โ‚ฌ2.809 billion ($2.945 billion). Last yearโ€™s end result was โ‚ฌ2.359 billion ($2.473 billion). The growth was driven by both the ticketing and live entertainment segment.

CTS Eventimโ€™s adjusted EBITDA came to โ‚ฌ542.2 million ($568.4 million) in 2024, compared with โ‚ฌ444.8 million ($466.3 million) in the previous year โ€“ which marks a significant increase of 21.9%.

In the ticketing segment, revenue rose by 22.7% to โ‚ฌ879.9 million ($922.5 million) in 2024, compared to โ‚ฌ717.3 million ($752 million) at the end of 2023. Adjusted EBITDA amounted to โ‚ฌ416.5 million ($436.6 million), compared to last yearโ€™s โ‚ฌ343.9 million ($360.5 million), another significant increase of 21.1%.

In the live entertainment segment, revenue climbed by 17.6% to โ‚ฌ1.971 billion ($2.066 billion), compared to last yearโ€™s โ‚ฌ1.677 billion ($1.758 billion). โ€œAdjusted EBITDA increased significantly in this segment too,โ€ the earnings summary states, before showing an EBIDTA of โ‚ฌ125.6 million ($131.7 million), which represents a 24.4% increase on last yearโ€™s โ‚ฌ101.0 million ($105.9 million).

CTS Eventim will publish its full annual report for 2024 on March 27 on its corporate website.

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