Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2023

Cash and Cash Equivalents [Abstract]

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Restricted Cash

The Company considers all highly liquid financial instruments, including bank deposits, money market funds and U.S. Treasury securities with an original maturity of three months or less at the date of purchase, to be cash equivalents. Due to the short-term nature of the instruments, the carrying amounts reported in the consolidated balance sheets approximate their fair value.

Cash and cash equivalents balances include the face value of tickets sold on behalf of creators and their share of service charges, which are to be remitted to the creators. Such balances were $344.3 million and $269.4 million as of March 31, 2023 and December 31, 2022, respectively. These ticketing proceeds are legally unrestricted, and the Company invested a portion of ticketing proceeds in high quality U.S. Treasury bills. These amounts due to creators are included in accounts payable, creators on the consolidated balance sheets.

The Company has issued letters of credit relating to contracts entered into with other parties under lease agreements and other agreements which have been collateralized with cash. This cash is classified as noncurrent restricted cash on the consolidated balance sheets. The following table provides a reconciliation of cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash reported within the consolidated balance sheets that sum to the total of the same amounts shown in the consolidated statements of cash flows (in thousands):


	March 31, 2023		December 31, 2022		March 31, 2022
Cash and cash equivalents	$	518,446	$	539,299	$	709,853
Restricted cash	882		875		1,416
Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash	$	519,328	$	540,174	$	711,269