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Ticketing Company Lyte Shuts Down Suddenly

Ticketing company Lyte, which has increasingly embraced ticket reselling in recent years, shut down its website with no warning last week.

Lyte founder and chief executive Ant Taylor has resigned from the company, according to multiple sources, with an emergency board/creditors effort underway to try to identify a potential buyer that could repay the fans and promoters affected by shutdown, which one source said felt akin to being “ghosted.” Currently, the company’s website is offline and has been for days, having been replaced by an image that says “Be Back Soon,” with smaller text reading, “Our website is currently undergoing scheduled maintenance. As recently as Sept. 9 the Lyte blog was announcing new clients for that initiative, including Digilogue Days, an October event in Brooklyn that billed itself as a meeting point for “music executives, artists, creatives, students and aspiring professionals with the tools and knowledge to shape the future of the music industry.” Today, Digilogue Days’ ticketing page has the same “be back soon” message that has come to replace nearly all of Lyte’s known web footprint. “If that happened, the board of directors will be forced to account for those funds, even if that means piercing the corporate veil and going after their ability to raise money.”

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