Eventbrite Announced “Eventbrite for Causes”
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) February 23, 2010 — Eventbrite, the fastest growing social commerce company, today announced 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. The program, which includes a special non-profit rate, is open to all US-based non-profits with 501(c)(3) status.
Eventbrite for Causes is already used by a number of organizations such as the Craigslist Foundation, the Full Circle Fund, as well as a number of Haiti earthquake relief efforts. “Using Eventbrite for Craigslist Foundation’s 6th Annual Boot Camp was a great experience,” said Arthur Coddington, senior program manager at the Craigslist Foundation. “Nonprofit organizations of all sizes will benefit from the ease of use, cost effectiveness, and comprehensive feature set, not to mention great customer service.”
Eventbrite provides an easy-to-use, elegant and simple way to handle all aspects of the event management process, creating a social commerce platform that empowers event holders of any size or scale to more easily and effectively reach the people that care about their events. Non-profits who use Eventbrite are able to easily collect donations online, spread the word to promote the event through a multitude of social channels, and track the event’s progress with real-time tracking and reporting.
Additionally, participating non-profits gain access to a community-at-large resource portal that connects them with other non-profits for best practices discussion. This creates a knowledge base of expert advice, dedicated newsletters, instruction on the use of technology and tips intended to help non-profits take full advantage of Eventbrite.
“Given the difficult fundraising climate, managing and hosting successful events is becoming more important to non-profits’ development efforts. However, they often lack the internal resources, technical know-how, or use of the web for promotion and fundraising efforts to achieve these goals,” said Kevin Hartz, CEO of Eventbrite. “Eventbrite for Causes renews our commitment to this community and empowers non-profits with a set of tools and resources to take their events to the next level.”
Eventbrite for Causes partners with other companies such as Salesforce, Google, PayPal, and Mailchimp who are dedicated to empowering non-profits to leverage technology to achieve their goals. For more information about Eventbrite for Causes, visit http://www.eventbrite.com/npo
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 anywhere 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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Former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen Joins Englander Knabe & Allen
LOS ANGELES, CA (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) February 3, 2010 - Frederic C. Rosen, the former President and CEO of Ticketmaster Group, Inc. from 1982 to 1998, has joined Englander Knabe & Allen (EK&A) as a senior counselor.
“Under Fred Rosen’s leadership, Ticketmaster was transformed into a small startup ticketing company with under $1 million in annual ticket sales in 1982 into the world’s leading computerized ticketing service — with a powerful global brand synonymous with ticketing, a pioneering internet presence and more than $2.4 billion in annual ticket sales.
“Fred brings a critical element to our litigation and crisis practice, since he can help the ‘C’ suite navigate challenging situations. Fred will provide strategic counsel to clients on a range of issues, with particular focus on reputation and crisis management, litigation support and financial communications. The combination of media relations, crisis management, and public relations has always been a crucial part of litigation strategy. Increasingly, CEOs are recognizing how critical it is to combine the best legal counsel with the best professional public relations and Fred will play a critical role in our crisis and litigation communications practice,” said managing partner Harvey A. Englander.
EK&A’s Reputation Management service covers the full spectrum of CEO and corporate reputation issues — creating and maintaining an enduring reputation to recovering reputation following a crisis.
In addition to being a senior counselor for EK&A, Mr. Rosen serves as a director of a number of non-profit organizations. Among his many community and philanthropic interests in Los Angeles, he is a Board member of the Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment Commission; Board member of the Wallis Annenberg Cultural Center in Beverly Hills and a Member of the Board of Governors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and was a trustee of Crossroads School for 16 years.
Over the years, Mr. Rosen has been recognized for both his philanthropic activities and entrepreneurship, including receiving the City of Hope’s “Spirit of Life” Award in 1994; the Ellis Island Medal of Honor in 1993; University of Southern California’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” award in 1989; he was honored by the Actor’s fund in 1997; and received the Social Concern Award from the American Jewish Committee in 1997. Mr. Rosen graduated from Clark University in June 1965 and graduated from Brooklyn Law School in June 1969. He was admitted and became a member of the New York State Bar in November 1969 and practiced law in New York City from 1972 to 1982.
Englander Knabe & Allen’s client roster includes companies such as Westfield, Motorola, Downey Hospital, LegalZoom, AT&T and the Los Angeles Police Protective League. EKA provides strategic counsel to clients on a wide range of issues, with particular focus on, and experience in, reputation and crisis management, litigation support, public affairs, government advocacy, media relations, community relations, financial communications and marketing material development.
For more information, visit our website at www.EnglanderPR.com
CONTACT:
Englander Knabe & Allen
Eric Rose
(213) 741-1500
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YESpay and Spektrix Form Partnership to sell UK Theatre Tickets
London, ENG (YESpay, Spektrix) 8 February 2010 - Theatres and other arts venues are increasingly deciding to move away from traditional, locally hosted ticketing and payment solutions by outsourcing their payment processing services and moving to web-based ticketing solutions. Leading box-office solution provider, Spektrix, have
joined hands with YESpay International Ltd to assist theatres nationwide with their ticketing and payment processing requirements.
Increasing pressures for PCI compliancy have lead to high associated costs and issues which are difficult to overcome when managing systems in-house. Spektrix has developed a fully supported, redundant and resilient ticketing solution, which meets these challenges. It is fully integrated with YESpay’s EMBOSS solution, which is end-to-end pre-accredited and fully PCI compliant removing the responsibility of arts venues to go through the time-consuming and costly accreditation process themselves.
Another challenge that theatres face when managing payments in-house is the high costs
accumulated by investing in and managing expensive hardware. The Spektrix/YESpay solution eradicates this need as the service is entirely outsourced.
Phil Norris General Manager of the ADC Theatre in Cambridge has commented on his choice of the Spektrix/YESpay solution, “We wanted a fast, reliable and easy-to-use box office system that removed the need for large amounts of IT hardware and was up-to-date with PCI compliancy.”
As e-commerce is becoming increasingly popular among arts venues, easy integration to existing websites is required. The Spektrix and YESpay solution offers easy integration to both e-commerce sites and Chip & PIN devices, putting it at the forefront of fully-integrated ticketing and payment solutions in the UK.
Clare Moss, Box Office Manager at the Bush Theatre says, “We have been so impressed with the approach, integration and support provided by Spektrix and YESpay that we are encouraging other venues we work closely with to consider the solution.”
About Spektrix
Spektrix is an innovative and fully-featured hosted ticketing solution for the arts. Spektrix helps venues to increase audiences through seamlessly integrated online sales and powerful CRM functionality. With no upfront costs and true scalability, Spektrix is suitable for venues of all sizes.
Spektrix was set up to fulfil a need for highly functional, cost-effective and easy to use ticketing software. It follows the “Software as a Service” model, allowing venues to reduce their ongoing overheads related to IT infrastructure, and reducing the amount of time venues need to spend managing the technical aspects of their box office, allowing them to concentrate on what really matters – maximising sales and improving the customer experience. www.spektrix.com
About YESpay Ltd
YESpay is a global payments services company providing highly secure and scalable EMV Chip & PIN, contactless and magnetic credit / debit card, e-commerce and gift card payment processing services to independent and multi-chain merchants. It provides outsourced management payment services anywhere in the world to traditional high street stores, hospitality, leisure, fuel, mail order and web environments.
Through EMBOSS™, its Gateway to Managed Payment Services, merchants can quickly accept
integrated card payments within their EPOS tills, kiosks, and hospitality payment systems as well as enhance their websites for on-line payments with minimal capital investment and low on-going services costs. EMBOSS is an on-line IP-based payment processing service that has been preaccredited (generically) by major card Acquirers in Europe and North America (including Barclaycard Business, HSBC, HBOS, Lloyds Cardnet, Streamline, Ulster Bank, Elavon, PBS, Amex and Diners). In addition, YESpay’s EMBOSS service is fully end to end certified to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) Level 1 as mandated by Visa and MasterCard.
YESpay’s EasyV-Suite of card payment products are innovative and cost-effective solutions for EPOS, Kiosk, Hospitality, Mobile and Internet Websites that combine with the YESpay hosted EMBOSS payment service to enable their merchants to perform credit or debit card payments in both card-present and card-not-present environments. www.yes-pay.com
YESpay PR Contact:
Jyoti Sekhawat
Tel: +44 (0)871 221 9510
jyoti.sekhawat@yes-pay.com
www.yes-pay.com
Spektrix PR Contact:
James Baggaley
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7785 6967
james.baggaley@spektrix.com
www.spektrix.com
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Rockhouse Partners Started by Former Ticketmaster Executives
NASHVILLE, TN (Rockhouse Partners) February 2, 2010 – Today former Ticketmaster Entertainment executives officially launch Nashville-based Rockhouse Partners, on the heels of the largest merger approval in music industry history. The technology-based entertainment agency will focus on connecting sponsor brands to consumers in the music and sports industries through digital marketing strategy, online/offline activation programs, and new digital products, along with data aggregation and analysis.
Co-founders Tawn Albright, Kevin Brown, and Joe Kustelski bring to Rockhouse Partners 40+ years combined experience in technology, digital media, consumer products, ticketing, live entertainment, artist management, promotions, start-ups, advertising, and Fortune 500 brands. The trio met at Echo, Ticketmaster Entertainment’s digital marketing firm, where Albright served as CEO, Brown led Strategic Marketing, and Kustelski was Vice President of Product & Technology.
“From my days at The Coca-Cola Company in corporate development to Ticketmaster and Echo where we managed the digital presence for more than 250 artists, festivals, and properties; sponsorships have become the glue in connecting brands to the entertainment industry. The way the industry is moving, brands are demanding more value in the form of measuring data and proving ROI. We see a major opportunity to activate brands and fans in a meaningful, relevant, and interactive way,” stated Albright.
Rockhouse Partners’ initial clients include C3 Presents (Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits Music Festival), Lance Armstrong and the RadioShack Pro Cycling Team, Next BIG Nashville, the Tennessee State Fair, Nashville agencies like redpepper, and other entities across the entertainment vertical. The company’s target clients are sponsorship brokers, live entertainment properties, brands and their agencies, sports entities, advertising/marketing firms, and media companies.
“We can’t say enough great things about Rockhouse,” said Courtney Graber, Director of Sponsorships for C3 Presents. “They have the unique ability to grasp digital strategy and technology at the highest level, combine that knowledge with an in-depth understanding of brand sponsorships, all the while being able to manage and measure the most critical success metrics.”
While collaborating at Ticketmaster/Echo, the Rockhouse Partners founders fine-tuned their eye toward data by managing 15 million consumer database relationships, 200,000 paid fan club subscriptions, one million mobile fan records, and more than $25 million in ticket sales annually.
“We launched this venture hell-bent on not creating just another digital marketing firm. We’re creating scalable technology products that address specific business opportunities, we understand the value of data, and we bake measurement into everything we do,” said Kustelski.
In addition to Rockhouse Partners’ initial clients, the company has formed partnerships with Nashville entities including American Songwriter magazine and email marketing firm Emma; along with Austin-based design/development shop Smith & Robot.
“The response so far to our unique model has exceeded all expectations. We’re busy growing the team, building out our technology platform, and we’re beyond excited to take this next step,” said Brown. “2010 looks bright as we’ll be focusing on business development, with programs planned at South by Southwest (SXSW) in Austin and the annual IEG Sponsorship Conference in Chicago.”
Rockhouse Partners also looks to further support Nashville’s business and music communities. Albright serves on Mayor Karl Dean’s inaugural Music Council, Kustelski led the creation of Nashville’s first Entrepreneur Center through the Chamber of Commerce and the Nashville Technology Council, and Brown spearheaded Digital Nashville’s marketing team.
About Rockhouse Partners:
Rockhouse Partners is a technology-based entertainment agency focused on sponsorship creation, activation, and measurement for the rapidly-changing music and sports industries. To activate is to set in motion, to make more active, to organize/create, or to accelerate a reaction. And that’s just what Rockhouse does. The ingredients typically include digital marketing, technology and digital products, the highest-level of business strategy, data aggregation and analysis, a whole lot of intellectual curiosity, along with partnership models and new venture creation… but the recipe is never the same. In short: Rockhouse CREATES, MANAGES, and MEASURES every element within the sponsorship life cycle.
CONTACT INFO:
Kevin Brown
615.772.4326
kevin@rockhousepartners.com
www.rockhousepartners.com
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Time Warner Cable and FanSnap Join Forces For Ticket Search
PALO ALTO, CA (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) February 01, 2010 — FanSnap, the ticket search engine for fans, today announced a new partnership with Time Warner Cable Inc., providing the nearly nine million subscribers of TWC’s Road Runner High Speed Online service convenient integrated access to the nation’s largest ticket search engine. FanSnap’s comprehensive results include 10+ million sports, theater, and concert tickets to 40,000+ events, from dozens of the leading providers.
“We know fans rely on Road Runner for the latest sports and entertainment news and content, and we are pleased to be working together with their team to provide convenient, fast access to the available live event tickets for the associated teams, artist and shows that their subscribers desire,” said FanSnap CEO and co-founder Mike Janes.
“People are not always aware of upcoming events in their area, andeven if they are, the experience of finding tickets can befrustrating and time consuming,” said Steve Cook, Senior VicePresident of HSO Strategy for Time Warner Cable. “Integrating the FanSnap ticket search engine throughout Road Runner provides our subscribers dynamic, relevant event and ticket information targeted to their specific location and interests, saving them time and money. “With this partnership, Road Runner subscribers will be able to accessthe FanSnap’s several industry-first features, the most prominent being its patent-pending dynamic FanSnap Maps(SM), which help fans to:
– Determine at-a-glance the ticket price range by section, using colored “heat map” markers
– Zoom into the interactive venue maps, and see the ticket offers from numerous providers placed in clearly labeled rows– View at-a-glance the “Best Value Tickets”
– the lowest price tickets available in key areas of the venue, easily identified as blue stars on the FanSnap Maps
– Share events and even actual ticket listings via Facebook, Twitter, or Email
In October, FanSnap was named to the “PC World 100: Best Products of2009.” In August, FanSnap was also named winner of the “Most Innovative New Search Engine” category of the Search Engine Watch(SEW) Awards 2009.
The Road Runner-FanSnap co-branded solution ‘powered by FanSnap’ is made possible by FanSnap’s proprietary suite of ticket search technology, designed to make it fast and easy for FanSnap partners to provide access to highly relevant event and ticket data throughout their web sites. Providing this information and experience increases audience engagement, increases the partner’s value proposition, and creates an exciting new potential revenue stream for publishers of web sites and portals that host music, sports, theatre, news, or other relevant content.
About FanSnap
FanSnap is the live event ticket search engine for fans. Our missionis to provide the most comprehensive, accurate, fast and easy-to-useresource for fans to find the tickets they desire to sports,concerts, and theatre events. FanSnap provides free ticket searchresults for dozens of the leading ticket providers, including TicketNetwork, StubHub, RazorGator, Las Vegas Tickets, Gold CoastTickets, eBay, Barry’s Tickets, AllShows.com, and Ace Ticket.
Our detailed ticket-level search results are made possible by thecombination of strategic industry partnerships and systems integration, as well as our FanSnap TicketData(SM) systems andpatent-pending dynamic FanSnap Maps(SM). Palo Alto, CA-based FanSnap was founded in 2007 and is funded by General Catalyst Partners and Highland Capital Partners.
About Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable is the second-largest cable operator in the U.S., with technologically advanced, well-clustered systems located in five geographic areas — New York State (including New York City), the Carolinas, Ohio, southern California (including Los Angeles) and Texas. Time Warner Cable serves more than 14 million customers who subscribe to one or more of its video, high-speed data and voice services. Time Warner Cable Business Class offers a suite of phone, Internet, Ethernet and cable television services to businesses of all sizes. Time Warner Cable Media Sales, the advertising arm of Time Warner Cable, offers national, regional and local companies innovative advertising solutions that are targeted and affordable.
More information about the services of Time Warner Cable is available at www.timewarnercable.com,www.twcbc.com and www.twcmediasales.com.
PRESS CONTACT:
FanSnap
Christian Anderson
(206) 251-3469
christian@fansnap.com
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Digionex and Cleveland Cavaliers Partner For Dynamic Pricing Consulting Deal
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (Digonex) January 28, 2010 – Indianapolis-based pricing software developer Digonex Technologies, Inc., today announced that that the Cleveland Cavaliers will be the first sports franchise to leverage its Sports & Entertainment Analytical Ticketing System (SEATS), which was launched in November 2009.
While sports teams and franchises have traditionally used a tiered-pricing structure, which is set at the beginning of a season, unexpected factors throughout the season are causing teams and franchises to evaluate alternative ticket pricing structures and technologies that enable them to demonstrate their commitment to the fans.
SEATS is a fully automated commerce engine that analyzes sales data and provides price suggestions based upon econometric and behavioral principles. SEATS takes a customizable approach, making use of dozens of parameters to evaluate ticket sales and offer price recommendations.
“Our technology helps sports franchises stay in sync with an ever-changing marketplace and provides a fair-to-all pricing solution that benefits both sports teams and fans,” said Jan Eglen, Ph.D, CEO for Digonex. “We are thrilled to be working with the Cavaliers to help them understand how our technology can positively impact the franchise and extend loyalty to their fans.”
“We are excited to be working with Digonex on this initiative,” said Mike Tomon, vice president of ticket sales & service for the Cavaliers. “With the SEATS system in place, The Cavaliers organization will offer a value-based pricing system driven by fan demand in the market.”
SEATS will perform an analysis on fan based pricing structure for single games and will make instant price recommendations to the Cavaliers for selected games and other Arena events. Digonex plans to begin working with the Cavaliers following the All-Star break.
About Digonex Technologies, Inc.
Digonex Technologies focuses primarily on development of automated and optimized dynamic pricing platforms for e-commerce, allowing client companies to increase customer retention and maximize revenue. For more information, visit Digonex Technologies’ Web site at www.digonex.com.
Media Contact:
Melissa Liton for Digonex
206-282-4923 Ext 115
melissa@communiqurepr.com
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