{"id":1003664,"date":"2026-04-18T11:21:45","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T05:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003664"},"modified":"2026-04-18T12:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:40:30","slug":"walmarts-flipkart-plans-foray-into-indias-ticketing-market-as-live-events-boom-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/walmarts-flipkart-plans-foray-into-indias-ticketing-market-as-live-events-boom-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart&#8217;s Flipkart plans foray into India&#8217;s ticketing market as live events boom, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart plans to sell movie and concert tickets in India, moving into a fast-growing space driven by consumers spending more on entertainment, two sources familiar with the matter said. <\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s live events and ticketing market has gathered pace \u200cover the \u2060last \u2060year, as demand for large-scale concerts, international tours and sporting spectacles surges, drawing tens of thousands of fans across major cities, led by the country&#8217;s lucrative cricket calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart plans to sell movie and concert tickets in India, moving into a fast-growing space driven by consumers spending more on entertainment, two sources familiar with the matter said. India&#8217;s live events and ticketing market has gathered pace \u200cover the \u2060last \u2060year, as demand for large-scale concerts, international tours and sporting spectacles surges, drawing tens of thousands of fans across major cities, led by the country&#8217;s lucrative cricket calendar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}