The Tickets.com team made the short (!) journey along to stadiummk last weekend to cheer on MK Dons as they faced Brighton & Hove Albion.

As part of the longstanding partnership with the Championship side, Tickets.com were the official match sponsors of last Saturday’s fixture against promotion-chasing side Brighton & Hove Albion.

Having provided the club’s ticketing system since 2014, Tickets.com took a number of the team along to cheer on their local side, and joined the clubs’ captains, mascots and match officials for a photo on the pitch before kick off. Tickets.com also presented the Man of the Match Award.

In what was always going to be a tough contest for the Dons, Brighton went 2-0 up on 62 minutes and, despite MK Dons’ Antony Kay pulling a goal back eight minutes later, the south coast side hung on for a 2-1 win.

The fixture was played in front of 21, 345 – a record attendance for a Football League game at stadiummk.

Click here to read the full match report.

Tickets.com has today announced the introduction of the latest version of its ticketing system, ProVenue®, for the world renowned opera house Semperoper, in Dresden, Germany.

A client since 1993, Semperoper will utilise ProVenue® alongside the existing technology previously implemented by Tickets.com to manage all aspects of its ticketing; this includes online sales with a wide range of advanced features, as well as customer selection, data cleansing and reporting.

As Tickets.com’s most advanced ticketing system, ProVenue® is a full service, integrated ticketing solution that puts users in complete control of their ticketing operation. It enables venues to sell tickets to consumers under their own brand and capture, access and own consumer data, providing a 360° view of the buying habits and preferences of their patrons.

Alongside ProVenue®, Semperoper will also continue to use Tickets.com’s integrated e-mail system, which permits the venue to not only manage its data effectively but also build, send and track HTML campaigns.

Already well-established throughout the US, ProVenue® was launched internationally in 2015. The National Speedway Stadium and the entire British Basketball League were some of the first to take advantage of the robust platform in UK market and the advanced ticketing platform is also being used across the globe in dozens of leading performing arts venues and professional sports clubs. ProVenue’s® popularity continues to grow in North America, Europe and Australia, with an ever increasing number of clients taking advantage of its intuitive design, clever inventory management and ability to seamlessly integrate with other applications.

Commenting on the launch of ProVenue®, Doris Schneider, head of sales and service at Semperoper Dresden, said: “Having worked with Tickets.com for more than 20 years now, we continue to be impressed by its ongoing product innovation and development, so the update to ProVenue® was a natural migration for Semperoper.

“We’ve worked closely with the team throughout the development and testing phase to ensure that the system is meeting the requirements of the venue and we’ve been really pleased with our experience of ProVenue® so far; we are very confident that it will provide us with a strong platform to better engage with our existing and prospective customers and we are looking forward to continuing our longstanding partnership with Tickets.com.”

Derek Palmer, Tickets.com’s managing director and executive vice president, international, said: “Today’s announcement is a significant development in the roll out of ProVenue®, as not only does it indicate the growing portfolio of customers worldwide that are moving across to new solutions, but it also represents the expansion of our technical infrastructure throughout Europe.

“Semperoper is a fantastic venue and showcase for how Tickets.com systems continue to evolve with customer and industry requirements and trends; we remain ever focused on evolving and revolutionising technology and the ticketing landscape to deliver a seamless ticketing experience for our customers and their clients.”

Built in 1841, Semperoper hosts over 700 events and welcomes more than 400,000 visitors every year; a popular opera house widely renowned for its star-studded performances by the Saxon State Opera and Orchestra, the venue has a long history of premieres, including major works by Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss.

For more information about Tickets.com and ProVenue® visit provenue.tickets.com.
For more information about Semperoper, visit www.semperoper.de.

A huge congratulations from everyone at Tickets.com to Ross County FC – winners of the Scottish League Cup 2015/16!

Scottish Premiership side and Tickets.com client Ross County FC made history earlier this month by winning the 70th Scottish League Cup final and picking up the club’s first ever major trophy.

In what was a closely-contested game played at Hampden Park, Ross County took the lead after 25 minutes before Scottish Championship side Hibernian equalised just before half time.

The second half saw a goal disallowed for Ross County but as the game looked set to be heading for extra time, the Staggies’ Dutch striker Alex Schalk scored in the final minute of the match to seal the win and the first major trophy in the club’s history.

The Highland side has been using Tickets.com’s ProVenue® suite of products as the platform for supporting all ticketing requirements throughout the Scottish League Cup campaign, with the solution enabling the club to successfully meet the extremely high demand for the 7000 tickets allocated to Ross County supporters for the final at Hampden Park.

The club first engaged with Tickets.com in time for the start of the 2015/16 season, in a new long-term agreement as part of the club’s wider strategy to improve fan experience; a move that saw Ross County become the latest addition to Tickets.com’s portfolio of professional football clubs which includes fellow Scottish Premiership sides Aberdeen, Dundee and Dundee United.

Click here for more information and photos from the club’s historic Cup win.

We at Tickets.com understand the excitement you feel when you secure a ticket to your favorite event on the secondary market, when the event has been sold out for months. We also understand how frustrating it is to pay a month’s worth of rent in fees that these sites are charging. You worked hard for your money, why spend it on fees? This is why our guys and gals with pocket protectors and IQs of over 249 have been hard at work creating a solution for you the consumer. All their hard work has created the most user friendly secondary ticket market in the industry, which we are calling Replay.

The Boston Red Sox were so blown away by Replay that they wanted to be the first to take it to the marketplace. They call it Red Sox Replay. Awesome name; we know! Within 24 hours of the launch of Replay, the new Tickets.com resale platform took the market by storm. There were over 28,000 tickets posted on the site during its first day, which was more than the total number of tickets posted to Stubhub during the first 30 days of March in 2015. OUCH!

Since its inception one year ago, the goal of Red Sox Replay has been to create a Secondary Marketplace option that would benefit the Red Sox and their loyal fans. We have provided an easy and enjoyable experience that can be accessed on either your mobile device or desktop. You can list your tickets on Replay with just a few clicks! When tickets are sold, they are digitally delivered safely and securely to the buyer without the hassle of printing and mailing.

Replay offers the safest, most secure and trustworthy site for fans buying or selling Official Red Sox tickets. With rapid success in its early stages, we expect Replay to gain market share and become dominant in the secondary marketplace. For the best secondary market experience, go to RedSoxReplay.com to purchase your Red Sox tickets today.

Co-written by Bucky Heath and Paige Funk

It started in June 2015, when the new Tickets.com CEO Joe Choti said, it’s time to “disrupt the ticketing industry” to a crowd of 200+ participants from the ticketing industry at our annual ProVenue Exchange.

While this momentous occasion was purposed to connect, collaborate, and discover future technology trends, Choti desired an even more true exchange when he stated, “See these people. Get to know them. I want you to tell us the success you’ve had and the challenges you’ve had.”

Here Choti emphasized the importance of sharing experiences. This is where Team Tickets.com is going—putting our patrons’ desire to experience at the forefront of everything we do by ensuring the most advanced technological tools because it’s all about less waiting and more living.

This notion birthed the idea of “Experience is Everything” as it has the power to create great stories, amazing memories, and life-changing ideas.

Cheers to your next incredible experience!

SECUREmedia’s extensive range of print products are now available to all Tickets.com customers.

At Tickets.com we are delighted to announce a new partnership with box office print supplier SECUREmedia, further enhancing the service we provide to our customers.

With clients across theatre, leisure, sports and visitor attractions, SECUREmedia provides innovative and creative ticketing and print-related products to support the sales and marketing functions of venues nationwide.

SECUREmedia’s extensive range of products include:

• Thermal tickets
• Ticket carriers and wallets
• Plastic cards
• Roll tickets
• Passes & lanyards
• Vouchers
• Wristbands (Tyvek, thermal, plastic & RFID)
• Promotional flyers, posters, envelopes & banners
• Promotional products

So whatever your print requirements, Tickets.com and SECUREmedia will work closely with you to determine the best solution for your venue.

For more information or to discuss how SECUREmedia can support your venue’s ticketing requirements, contact the Tickets.com team on +44 (0) 1908 232 404 or at uksales@tickets.com.

The 37th Annual Conference & Exhibition in Anaheim, California, was my first INTIX experience and a huge success for Tickets.com. Our company’s booth was well-staffed by our industry experts, and it provided us with an excellent opportunity to further strengthen our brand with conference attendees. It was exhilarating to be surrounded by so many brilliant colleagues, customers, and competitors willing to share their experiences and market strategies.

For me, this conference was an invaluable opportunity to see how other leaders in ticketing are leveraging combinations of sales, attendance, concession, and merchandizing data to increase overall revenue and improve patrons’ experiences. The future of ticketing is increasingly personalized customer service that rewards loyalty and curates marketing efforts based on each patron’s purchasing patterns. Part of my job will be to continue modeling our data to make it accessible for CRM in our own ProVenueForce® product as well as our clients’ other CRM solutions.

On the last day of the conference, I had the privilege of moderating a panel of CRM experts in the ticketing space, with a focus on ticket-data extraction and transformation. The panel was lively and well-attended by CRM veterans as well as managers looking for guidance for first time CRM implementation. Daniel Kim of Medieval Times, Josh Zeigenbusch of the Oakland Athletics, and our own CTO, Derek Argobright, had lively discussion with robust participation from our sizeable and very engaged audience. Our presenters and attendees left the discussion contemplating many new, game-changing ideas.