Tickets.com Partnet With Mobile Marketing Company Txtstation
COSTA MESA, Calif. (PRNewswire) May 5, 2010 - Tickets.com— a leading global provider of integrated, high- performance ticketing solutions—has announced a partnership with Txtstation Global Mobile Marketing, the recognized leader in mobile interactivity. The new alliance allows Tickets.com— the first and only ticketing company in the United States to offer both mobile ticket transactions and mobile barcode delivery— to expand and enhance the products and services it offers its clients in the explosively growing mobile realm.
By harnessing the power of mobile marketing from Txtstation, Tickets.com makes it possible for clients to dynamically interact with fans at games, concerts, events, and broadcasts in real-time. In addition to heightening the overall experience for consumers with interactive promotions and marketing, Txtstation capabilities will help Tickets.com clients strategically build brand identity with target markets with an engaged and captive audience in place. Custom programs and graphics will differentiate campaigns for each individual brand and client’s needs.
Additionally, real-time one-to-one dialogue with event attendees will allow Tickets.com clients to identify and capture data on potentially all audience members—not just ticket buyers—that can be used for opt-in, ongoing mobile marketing, cross promotions, and other revenue-building initiatives. Mobile marketing solutions from Txtstation also deliver incremental revenues from premium text messages (SMS), multi-media messages (MMS), and content downloads.
“Our alliance with Txtstation is in alignment with our strategy to partner with industry-leading companies who can provide exceptional technologies at competitive pricing,” said Sheri Fink, eCommerce and Strategic Alliances, Tickets.com. “We look forward to offering our clients real- time mobile interactivity with their fans.”
Txtstation Global Mobile Marketing (www.txtstation.com) has been providing mobile interactivity products and services to events, sports teams, music/entertainment properties, broadcasters, brands, and agencies since 2004. “We are excited about collaborating with Tickets.com to boost mobile interactivity for their clients,” said Michael Falato, Vice President of Sales & Business Development, Txtstation. “I think our companies are well matched in terms of commitment to technological innovation and customer service, and I see many opportunities for synergy in supporting Tickets.com and its broad range of clients.”
Tickets.com is at the vanguard of mobile technologies and website mobilization in the ticketing and admissions service industry. Its proprietary ProVenueMobile™ product is the first mobile ticketing technology allowing fans to browse listings and make real-time purchases from their mobile phones without the need to “click to call” to finalize the transaction. Its Tickets@Phone® technology is another pioneering product, offering consumers the option to digitally receive unique barcoded tickets directly and securely to their mobile phones for a 100% mobile—and green—ticket-buying experience.
About Tickets.com
Tickets.com is a leading provider of fully integrated event ticketing technologies, solutions, and services for thousands of top arts, entertainment, and sports organizations worldwide. Delivering the latest in ticketing technology, Tickets.com offers the advanced ProVenue® ticketing platform, which serves the core of a comprehensive web-based suite of integrated features, products, and services that help clients enhance ticket sales, marketing efforts, and overall customer experience. A privately held subsidiary of MLB Advanced Media, LP, since 2005, Tickets.com is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA, and has regional offices across the U.S. and around the world. The company also sells tickets directly to consumers at www.tickets.com.
About Txtstation
Txtstation is a leading mobile marketing company specializing in sports and entertainment that allows broadcasters, event owners, sponsors and general media to communicate with viewers or fans directly through mobile phones, internet, and landlines.
Txtstation creates one to one ‘real time’ dialog with consumers at specific times and places such as events, concerts and live or pre recorded broadcast. Since 2004, Txtstation has been at the forefront of mobile interactivity designing ‘live’ integrated programs that harness the excitement of live events and broadcasts while delivering high consumer response, encouraging brand loyalty, building email and cell phone databases, and increasing sales. www.txtstation.com
Media Contact:
Chaeli Walker
Tickets.com
(Tel) 714-327-5492
cwalker@tickets.com
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Fatsoma Ltd Launches a Customer-Facing Social Ticketing Network
UK online promotion and ticketing platform, Fatsoma Ltd, have launched their own customer-facing event listings portal. The is consistent with their social ticketing solution as it gives promoters access to the thousands of online reps.
The portal is not only used by customers to search through the hundreds of promoters and venues already selling tickets through the Fatsoma platform, but also has functions for reps to sign up and search events that they want to recommend to their friends.
Paul Stacey, Director of Fatsoma Ltd, explained, “Each rep is given their own customisable ticket page which will list all events they’re representing. They will even have their own URL, such as www.fatsoma.com/paul/, through which they can sell tickets to all their friends. When a customer buys a ticket from that link or ticket page the rep is paid commission at a rate set by the promoter.”
Once customers have bought tickets, they too are given the option of becoming a rep and recommending the event to their friends via their own ready-made ticket page in order to earn a commission per ticket sold.
With previous innovations into Facebook integration allowing reps to sell tickets via tabs on their Facebook profiles, as well as financial incentives provided for reps who introduce new promoters to the platform, the Fatsoma team aim to provide a social and viral ticketing solution to respond to the rise in the role social networking plays in organising events and now in selling tickets.
Stacey continued, “The latest developments complete our all encompassing platform. This will encourage more promoters to use Fatsoma, which in turn attracts more reps to push events, who bring in the customers and allow ticketing to go viral. This is truly a social alternative solution to current online promotion and ticketing services available.”
To date, Fatsoma have over 4000 registered reps, selling hundreds of thousands of tickets. Clients include UK promoters Propaganda, Mission, Warehouse Project, and Rough Hill, iconic Manchester venues Fac251 and Sankeys, and Sony artists such as Chipmunk.
About Fatsoma Ltd
Fatsoma Ltd is the ultimate online promotion platform specialising in social and viral ticketing solutions for promoters, venue owners, festival organisers, and artists. The Fatsoma portal provides access to thousands of online reps who sell tickets for top UK events through their own customisable ticket page. Simultaneously, users can search through the customer-facing event listing site to find the best UK events and request to sell their tickets. With financial incentives provided to reps for selling tickets to friends and inviting promoters onto the platform, Fatsoma provides the first truly viral ticketing alternative for the new age of online social networking.
The all-encompassing platform also allows clients to sell their own tickets through their own website as well as through the new Fatsoma event portal, and access many other features including viral marketing and extended social network sales via Facebook integration, the ability to collect and use their own private consumer data, and the ability to send out targeted newsletters, eflyers and SMS marketing campaigns.
The company was established in Manchester in 2006 to meet the needs of independent promoters using the new social networking phenomenon. Fatsoma is rapidly growing towards an international market and is now being utilised across the events and live music sectors. For more information on Fatsoma Ltd please contact juliette.keyte@fatsoma.com or visit www.fatsoma.com.
Contact Information
Address:
Fatsoma Ltd.
3 The Stables
Wilmslow Road
East Didsbury
Manchester
M20 5PG
Email Contact:
juliette.keyte@fatsoma.com
Juliette Keyte, Marketing and Brand Manager
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Qcue Names Vice President of Business Development
AUSTIN, Texas (BUSINESS WIRE) April 29, 2010 - Qcue, the dynamic pricing engine for live entertainment events, today announced the appointment of Eric Freeland as vice president of business development, where he will lead the company’s client acquisition and partnership efforts.
Freeland joins Qcue from StubHub, where he was responsible for all aspects of business development supporting the company’s multi-year sponsorships with professional sports teams and NCAA Division I schools.
Sports teams, concert promoters and venues use Qcue’s software to set the right price at the right time based on shifting market conditions. By enabling fans to purchase fair-priced, face-value tickets directly from a team’s box office, Qcue’s dynamic pricing solutions ensure a more consistent, high-value experience coupled with greater price transparency and choice-of-seat flexibility.
An expert in client prospecting and value creation, contract negotiation and project management, Freeland supported StubHub’s sponsorship negotiation with 24 Major League Baseball clubs leading to an exponential year-over-year sales increase in the company’s biggest market. He also launched StubHub’s first non-sports integration with Tickets.com for a major venue, spanning all live entertainment events at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, New York.
“Eric did an amazing job at StubHub as they transformed the ticketing industry and changed the perception of how teams can serve fans and increase revenues,” said Barry Kahn, CEO of Qcue. “Dynamic pricing represents the next step in bringing technology to live event ticketing benefitting teams and fans alike. We are excited to bring Eric on board as someone who has done this before and has strong relationships with many of our partners, clients and prospects.”
“Qcue has quickly established itself as a leading innovator in the ticketing industry, helping teams and venues maximize revenue opportunities while being more flexible and transparent in how they do business,” said Freeland. “I’m excited to join the team and continue to capitalize on this incredible market opportunity.”
About Qcue
Qcue is reinventing the primary ticket marketplace with the world’s only dynamic pricing engine for live entertainment events. Sports teams, concert promoters and venues use Qcue’s patent-pending technology to set the right price at the right time and provide the best value for fans, from the date of on-sale to the date of the event. Customers and partners include the San Francisco Giants, the Dallas Stars, Major League Baseball Advanced Media and Tickets.com. Founded in 2007, Qcue is based in Austin, Texas. For more information on Qcue, visit www.qcue.com.
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$250 Million Private Note Offering Planned by Live Nation Entertainment
LOS ANGELES, CA (PRNewswire-FirstCall) April 20, 2010 — Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (”Live Nation”) (NYSE: LYV) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, $250 million aggregate principal amount of senior notes (”Notes”). The Notes will be offered in a private placement in the United States to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933 and to non-U.S. persons outside the United States pursuant to Regulation S under the Securities Act.
The offering price, interest rate and other terms will be determined by negotiations between Live Nation and the initial purchasers. The Notes will be unsecured.
Live Nation intends to use the net proceeds from the offering along with borrowings under a new senior secured credit facility to repay in full the borrowings under its existing credit facility and the credit facilities of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ticketmaster Entertainment LLC, convert existing preferred stock of one of its subsidiaries into the right to receive a cash payment and pay related fees and expenses. The completion of the offering of the Notes is conditioned upon our entering into the new credit facility.
This press release is being issued pursuant to Rule 135c under the Securities Act and does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities. Any offer of the securities will be made only by means of a private offering memorandum. The Notes have not been registered under the Securities Act or the securities laws of any other jurisdiction and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from registration requirements.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Live Nation’s intention to issue the Notes and its intended use of the resulting proceeds. There is no assurance that Live Nation will successfully complete the proposed offering or use the proceeds as presently intended. Investors should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements as predictions of future results. Live Nation undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect developments or information obtained after the date of this press release.
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EventBrite’s Gross Ticket Sale in Q1 Reaches $40.9 Million
San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) April 14, 2010 - Eventbrite, the fastest growing social commerce company, today announced a record quarter on all fronts, highlighted by $40.9 million in gross ticket sales (GTS) in Q1. In addition, traffic from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn grew over 250% (YOY).
Eventbrite offers event organizers across a wide breadth of industries an easy-to-use, elegant, and simple way to manage, promote and sell out their events. The company has experienced tremendous traction over the past 24 months, helping event organizers sell tickets to over 200,000 events worldwide with over $200M in ticket sales to date. Over 2 million attendees have registered for Eventbrite events in 2010 alone.
“It is our mission to bring people together around live experiences,” said Kevin Hartz, co-founder and CEO of Eventbrite. “We are achieving this through an intense focus on product and customer service.”
These statistics build on exciting milestones for Q1 2010, including:
- Sean Moriarty, former CEO of Ticketmaster, joined the Board of Directors, contributing his acute operating expertise and knowledge of the events and ticketing industry;
- Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO and co-Founder of Yelp, joined as an investor and strategic advisor, contributing his in-depth experience in local market development and social media;
- Launched Eventbrite for Causes, a new program that makes it easier for non-profits to leverage technology and best practices to manage, promote, and raise money through successful events;
- Eventbrite was selected to power registration for Twitter’s Chirp and Facebooks’s f8, two of the premier technology conferences for early 2010;
- Eventbrite was named a winner for the Small Business Commerce Association’s (SBCA) 2009 Best of Business Award in the Internet category;
- Eventbrite was honored amongst the finalists for the San Francisco Business Journal and Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal’s annual list of Best Places to Work in the Bay Area.
About Eventbrite
Eventbrite is the world’s largest, fastest growing social commerce company. We empower anyone to host successful live experiences of any type or size by providing an easy way to manage, promote and sell out the event. Eventbrite brings together transactions with social interactions to allow events to live, flourish and take flight online. The net result is an intensely social transaction experience that at once helps events sell out, while creating a whirlwind of conversation and social engagement around them. Eventbrite is the engine for a new generation of live experiences. Eventbrite is privately held and backed by Sequoia Capital. For more information, go to www.eventbrite.com.
Contact Info:
LaunchSquad
Melissa Biles or Melissa Klein
(415) 625-8555
eventbrite(at)launchsquad(dot)com
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Fatsoma Launches a Social Ticketing Solution Through Facebook
Manchester, ENG (Fatsoma) 9th April 2010 - UK promotion and ticketing platform, Fatsoma Ltd, has released a large product update. From new branding to usability improvements, the whole system has been extensively refined.
New features have also been added, with further Facebook integration taking priority. These developments include the ability for reps to sell tickets through a branded ticket page tab on their Facebook profile, and for clients to update all reps’ statuses from within the Fatsoma platform, tracking the sales made through each rep’s status.
Paul Stacey, Director of Fatsoma Ltd, said, “This release is a huge step for us as a company. We can now offer the social ticketing alternative that we have strived to develop since day one. None of our current competitors have responded to the growth in social networks, yet we believe they are fundamental to the future of event and live music promotion. With the ability to update multiple reps’ statuses, and for reps to even add a ticket page to their Facebook profile, we have opened the door to social ticketing.”
By building a free Facebook application, clients can create exposure to their events through viral promotion. Every ticket sold through their Fatsoma website can be displayed on the consumer’s Facebook newsfeed. The same applies for users who tag photos on any integrated Fatsoma site, as these too can be displayed to their entire Facebook network. These additional features extend the possibilities of Facebook integration, providing reps with the opportunity to connect with the promoter’s application, and thus allowing them to list tickets on a profile tab, and to update their statuses with tracked links. All tickets sold via Facebook are tracked and earn the reps their commission rate, set by each promoter. Online reps have proved a highly successful feature for Fatsoma, with over 270,000 clicks earning reps almost £12,500 to date.
Facebook has over 400 million users worldwide with event promotion opportunities through the creation of fan pages, groups, and events, yet Fatsoma are the first company to provide a ticketing solution within the worlds largest social networking site.
Paul Stacey, continued, “Our services have always been derived by working closely with promoters, providing new solutions to evolving promotional and ticketing needs.”
Fatsoma’s growing list of clients include UK promoters Rough Hill and Propaganda, Manchester’s Fac251 nightclub, and artists including Chipmunk. Of these clients, 105 have created Facebook applications, connecting over 90,000 user accounts. Many of these clients have been acquired through the direct involvement of shareholder Coda Music Agency.
About Fatsoma Ltd
Fatsoma Ltd offer a social online promotion and ticketing service. This all-in-one platform allows event promoters, venue owners, festival organisers, and artists to sell their own tickets through their own website, and access many other features including selling tickets through a huge network of reps, viral marketing and extended social network sales via Facebook integration, the ability to collect and use their own private consumer data, and the ability to send out targeted newsletters, eflyers and SMS marketing campaigns.
The company was established in Manchester in 2006 to meet the needs of independent promoters using the new social networking phenomenon. Fatsoma is rapidly growing towards an international market and is now being utilised across the events and live music sectors. For more information on Fatsoma Ltd please contact ray.boggiano@fatsoma.com or visit www.fatsoma.com.
Contact Information
Address:
Fatsoma Ltd.
3 The Stables
Wilmslow Road
East Didsbury
Manchester
M20 5PG
Email Contact:
ray.boggiano@fatsoma.com
Ray Boggiano, Marketing and Brand Manager
Telephone:
0844 358 8677
Website:
www.fatsoma.com
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