Ticketing platform SeatGeek has announced a $238m (£205m/€238m) Series E private financing round, with Ryan Smith, the owner of the Utah Jazz NBA basketball franchise, among the investors. Other organisations to have participated in the funding round include long-time investor Accel, as well as Arctos Sports Fund and Wellington Management. Smith is the founder and …
Washington Commanders in multi-year partnership with SeatGeek
Ticketing platform SeatGeek has announced a multi-year deal with the National Football League (NFL)’s Washington Commanders. Beginning with the 2023-24 season, the Commanders will utilise Unify, SeatGeek’s backend technology platform that enables teams, theatres and arenas to create, sell and manage access to their live entertainment ecosystem. This includes sales and inventory management allowing users …
Watford reveals multi-year deal with SeatGeek
English Championship football club Watford has opted to partner with ticketing platform SeatGeek in a multi-year deal. The club launched its new ticketing system at the beginning of the 2021-22 season. The partnership also included the implementation of a mobile digital ticketing experience, improving the customer journey from purchase through to stadium entry. Richard Walker, …
New Orleans Saints and Pelicans opt for Shift4
National Football League (NFL) side the New Orleans Saints (pictured in white) and the National Basketball Association (NBA)’s New Orleans Pelicans have partnered with Shift4, an integrated payments and commerce technology provider. Shift4 will be the official payment solutions provider for the two New Orleans outfits, and will process payments for all Saints and Pelicans …
SeatGeek adds payment options for fans with Affirm partnership
SeatGeek and payment network Affirm have agreed a new partnership to provide fans with more ways to pay when purchasing tickets for live music and entertainment. Music fans will be able to choose a payment option that suits them when selecting Affirm at checkout. Patrons can select options ranging from monthly payments to four interest-free …
NASCAR appoints SeatGeek as official marketplace
NASCAR has agreed a wide-ranging partnership with SeatGeek following the success of the platform’s marketplace in lifting sales at this year’s Daytona 500. SeatGeek becomes the North American motorsport championship’s first-ever official ticket marketplace partner after it assisted Daytona organisers to increase sales by 29x year-on-year during February’s race. As an official partner of NASCAR, …
Mobile tickets introduced at Leeds United’s Elland Road
Premier League club Leeds United has said that the upgrade of its new ticketing system has been completed, and that fans will now receive mobile tickets on their smartphones for the 2022-23 season. The club also said that all 92 turnstiles at its home ground Elland Road have been upgraded to facilitate mobile ticket entry …
Tech Stack: Shift4, events in the Metaverse and more…
Our weekly tech round-up from the world of ticketing and associated industries… Payment processing The National Football League (NFL)’s Arizona Cardinals has announced integrated payments and commerce technology provider, Shift4, as its payment processing partner. Shift4 will process payments for all Cardinals ticketing transactions at State Farm Stadium, including the Super Bowl LVII in February …
RedBall and SeatGeek mutually terminate business combination agreement
RedBall Acquisition Corp and SeatGeek have announced today (Wednesday) that the companies have mutually agreed to terminate their business combination agreement, and plan of reorganisation, with immediate effect. The special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and ticketing platform SeatGeek first announced the business combination, which was designed to take SeatGeek public, in October last year. In …
SeatGeek becomes official ticketing platform of the NHL’s Florida Panthers
Mobile-focused ticketing platform SeatGeek has announced a multi-year partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL)’s Florida Panthers and the team’s owned and operated venues. The deal is SeatGeek’s first as the official ticketing provider of an NHL team and its venues. The company signed its first deal with an NHL team in September last year, …