B&ZAI's Katsuki Motodaka Wins JACIII Young Researcher Award For Ticket Sales Paper
A working idol writing peer-reviewed simulation research on the ticket market he performs in gives the hybrid pricing debate an author who sits on both sides of the transaction.
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Katsuki Motodaka of B&ZAI won the JACIII Young Researcher Award 2026 from the international journal Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics. He reported the award on the Nippon TV program DayDay. on Friday, September 18. The recognized paper, written with Waseda University professor Takashi Hasuike, analyzes ticket sales strategies in the live entertainment market.
Motodaka said on DayDay. that the paper was chosen as one of two from 414 published in the journal between 2023 and 2025. The paper, "Empirical Analysis of Ticket-Sales Strategies in the Live Entertainment Market," ran in JACIII in July 2025 and was written with Takashi Hasuike of Waseda University's Graduate School of Creative Science and Engineering.
It uses social simulation built on concerts held in Japan to test hybrid sales, which sell all seats at one price while auctioning some. The paper notes that premium seats for high-paying buyers can fund lower prices on standard seats, and frames the method as a way to limit resale profits in the secondary market.
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