Ticketing, fundraising and marketing solutions provider for college athletics, Paciolan, suffered an outage over the weekend, affecting a number of college football games in the US. The issue left many fans across the country unable to download digital tickets onto their smartphones for several hours. The outage also forced secondary marketplace StubHub to suspend sales …
NFT-ticketed convention welcomes 7,000 patrons
ASM Global-operated US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis recently hosted VeeCon, the first-ever NFT-ticketed convention. Launched by media mogul Gary Vaynerchuk, the inaugural VeeCon, which was produced by VeeFriends, was attended by 7,000 patrons from 47 states and 70 different countries. Some 83% of attendees were first-time visitors to Minnesota, according to VeeCon spokesperson, Maha Abouelenein. …