Tickets.com® Partners with Mad Mobile

Tickets.com® Partners with Mad Mobile to Power ProVenueMobile™ for MLB Clients

New mobilized web site solution improves experience and future potential

Today we announced our partnership with Mad Mobile to deploy an updated mobile-optimized sales tool for all of Tickets.com MLB Clubs.

Tickets.com has been an early leader in mobile ticketing and the first vendor to offer end-to-end search, purchase and ticket delivery all from the mobile device. Tickets.com continues to stay on the leading edge of innovation and partnering with Mad Mobile provides some immediate gains:

• Superior UI - Professional design without templates and a mobile UI framework that delivers a quick, app-like interaction with the consumer, creating a more pleasant search and transaction experience.

• Powerful Platform - Quickly mobilizes website content and functions with minimal impact to IT resources.

• Innovation – Mad Mobile brings a culture of innovation based on a solid understanding of emerging   technologies and standards.

John Rizzi, SVP of Client Services for Tickets.com, points out, “Ticketing transactional sites are surprisingly complex, and given the need to tailor the experience for our clients, having a partner who does not assume a ‘one size fits all’ attitude is key to success. Mad Mobile gives us that flexibility and positions us for further innovation going forward.”

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Tickets.com® Welcomes Jennifer Zick!

Tickets.com is excited to announce the appointment of Jennifer Zick as Vice President of Business Development. Jennifer’s first official function will be to join members of the Tickets.com team at the International Association of Venue Managers (IAVM) conference in Ft. Lauderdale, FL, July 21-24, 2012.

Zick spent the past 5 years with New Era Tickets helping to launch a digital marketing platform, and was responsible for securing high-profile clients in auto racing, the NBA, NHL, NFL and MLS.

“We’re thrilled to have Jen join us as we are radically changing the ticketing experience for venues, teams and fans with ProVenue,” states John Walker, President and CEO of Tickets.com. “Jen brings not only a wealth of industry knowledge and strategic relationships, but a solid grasp of technology and digital marketing that we can immediately put to work with our clients to help them reach more fans and sell more tickets."

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University at Buffalo Center for the Arts to Use ProVenue®

Western New York becoming a stronghold for the state-of-the-art platform

Tickets.com and the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts announced a new partnership agreement centralized on ProVenue.

“The Center for the Arts remains committed to keeping ticket prices affordable in Western New York, and the fight against rising ticketing service charges is central to that mission,” states Joel Thompson, Director of Ticket Operations for the Center. “This new partnership with Tickets.com allows us to move forward with no fee increases in the foreseeable future, allowing our patrons the best opportunity to see the great entertainment they’ve come to expect from our stages at reasonable prices.”

Tickets.com has served the collegiate and arts markets for many years, however the newer, industry-leading ProVenue platform has been primarily operating in regional ticketing as well as the sports (major and minor league) markets until now. This win celebrates the first foray for the platform in the University Arts segment. It is also one of many conversions to ProVenue in the upstate New York region in recent years, giving Tickets.com a strong presence in the area.

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Tickets.com® Proud Sponsor of the 2012 SEAT Conference

Exclusive Technology Summit to be held in Boston August 5-8

Tickets.com is partnering with the Sports and Entertainment Alliance in Technology (SEAT) at their 2012 conference at Boston’s historic Liberty Hotel in August.

The SEAT conference is in its 6th year of bringing together the very top leaders in Information Technology in the Sports and Entertainment field and provides education and the exchange of ideas to further the effective development and use of technology in venues across the country and around the world.

“Tickets.com has a long history of innovation with leading-edge ticketing technologies, particularly with the launch of their state-of-the-art ProVenue® platform, and has been a source of hope and excitement to technology leaders in our industry” said Christine Stoffel, Founder of SEAT. “They have been extremely helpful and supportive in the formation and growth of SEAT over the last several years, and we’re excited that they continue to be key participants in our conference.”

Tickets.com recently began publishing APIs for their Oracle and Java based ProVenue ticketing application, beginning the next generation of ticketing – integrating directly with other applications for real-time data and transaction sharing. One example using this approach, will allow tickets to be purchased directly from a team or venue’s website without the usual re-direct to a different set of web transaction pages.

“We have consulted extensively with technology leaders in the sports and entertainment space during our development of ProVenue, many of whom are now key participants and members of SEAT. It is a natural fit for us to embrace and support this organization of our colleagues to help foster communication and the evolution of ideas in this community” explained John Walker, President & CEO, Tickets.com.

The 2012 SEAT conference will feature speakers from illustrious organizations such as: TD Garden/Boston Bruins, FELD Entertainment, International Speedway Corporation (ISC), the NFL and Ohio State University. Doug Lyons, Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Tickets.com, will be participating on a panel entitled “Driving Revenue through Ticketing Technologies”.

For more information on attending the 2012 SEAT conference-event, visit www.seatconsortium.com. Follow SEAT on Twitter: @seatconference; LinkedIn: search for SEAT Sports Group and FaceBook: facebook.com/SEATconsortium.