How to get notified when Ticketmaster releases tickets: every method, including ours

You can't, from Ticketmaster. Its alerts cover new events, on-sale reminders and low-availability warnings for artists you favourite; nothing fires when a sold-out event gets seats back or a price drops. To be told, you need something that watches the event page for you: a marketplace's own alert, a generic page monitor, or a ticket tracker built for the job.

Here is what each option does and where it falls down. If you're not sure tickets come back at all after a sell-out, start with does Ticketmaster release more tickets after a show sells out?

1. Ticketmaster's own alerts

Two tools, both aimed at the start of a sale.

Favourite an artist and Ticketmaster sends new event announcements, on-sale alerts and "last-minute alerts when availability is running low". Set a reminder on an event and it texts you an hour before the on-sale.

Do both. They are free, and the low-availability warning is useful on the way in. What you won't get: a message when a show that sold out in March gets production holds released in August, or when a $340 resale listing is replaced by a $95 one.

Good for: not missing the on-sale.

Misses: everything after "sold out".

2. SeatGeek price alerts

SeatGeek has the most complete native alert of the big US marketplaces. Set one on an event and it notifies you when prices drop, or even when they rise, by email or app push. It works on the web and in the app.

The catch is scope. SeatGeek watches SeatGeek. If the seat you want reappears on Ticketmaster's primary inventory, SeatGeek won't know.

Good for: shows you'd happily buy on SeatGeek anyway.

Misses: Ticketmaster, AXS, everyone else.

3. StubHub price alerts

StubHub's alerts are app-only: you set a quantity, optionally a zone, and a maximum price, and the app tells you when a listing matches. It's a proper threshold alert, which is more than Ticketmaster offers.

Same limitation as SeatGeek, plus you need the app installed and notifications on.

Good for: resale hunting on StubHub with a firm budget.

Misses: the website, and every other platform.

4. Twickets alerts

Twickets, the face-value resale marketplace, gives you free alerts by email and app push when new listings appear, up to ten alerts, for specific dates only.

Then the small print: "high-demand events don't support alerts", and alerts are only switched on closer to the show. So the exact events you'd set an alert for are the ones where Twickets won't let you. That policy is why third-party Twickets monitors exist at all.

Good for: mid-demand shows, face-value prices.

Misses: the sold-out ones.

5. AXS and Bandsintown

AXS has no alert feature we can find. Its sold-out guidance is to "keep checking the event page" for official resale.

Bandsintown's RSVP button turns into "Waitlist" when a show sells out, which sounds like the answer. It isn't: the artist has to manually message the waitlist, and fans are not notified automatically when tickets return.

6. Generic page monitors (Distill, Visualping)

These are browser extensions and web services that watch any page and tell you when something on it changes. Fans have used them on Ticketmaster for years, and they're free to start: Visualping's free plan checks hourly, Distill's free plan includes 30 email alerts a month.

Three problems. You configure them yourself, which means picking the right element on a page that changes layout. They can't tell a $600 listing from a $60 one unless you build that logic. And Ticketmaster limits how often a single IP can request a page; Distill's own guide notes the site "has a security mechanism to limit the number of requests" and suggests running checks from your own device or paying for proxies.

Good for: technical fans, one event, patience.

Misses: fee-inclusive budgets, quantity, seating, and anything that needs to run while your laptop is closed.

7. Broker monitors (the expensive end)

There is a whole market of Discord-based monitors built for resellers: restock alerts, presale codes, sometimes auto-carting. Prices run $50 to $375 a month. They are fast and they are not for fans. Some of what they do is exactly what the BOTS Act targets. Skip them.

8. Ticket trackers built for fans

This is the category we're in, alongside services like TicketRobin and Event Spy. The idea is the same across all of them: you give the service an event, a quantity and a maximum price, it watches the listing on a schedule, and it messages you when a match appears. You then buy on the listing site. This page is about methods; the product-by-product comparison, with prices and coverage for each, is the best ticket alert tools in 2026.

Where we differ: Found My Tickets also keeps a public record of what each Ticketmaster event advertised over time, so you can see whether $180 is high or normal for that show before you set a max. Your max is compared with the fee-inclusive listing total wherever Ticketmaster exposes it. You get one free hourly tracker per calendar month; it runs for seven days or until its first matching alert. Paid pricing remains provisional and is shown on the pricing page.

We never buy, reserve, cart or check out. We watch the listing and email you. If that sounds like a smaller promise than "guaranteed tickets", it is. It's also the only one we can keep, and is a ticket alert service allowed? explains why the line sits where it does.

Which one should you use?

Whatever you pick, decide the number first, and make it the checkout total: on Ticketmaster US the advertised price has included fees since May 2025, but tax still goes on top and other sites may still show a base price. An alert set on the wrong number is worse than no alert. How to budget for concert ticket fees is the five-minute version.