Goodbye, Ticketmaster. Hello, SeatGeek. The Seattle Sounders on Wednesday announced a new deal with SeatGeek, a New York-based startup that offers a unique “open ticketing platform” and a focus on mobile apps. SeatGeek will become the official ticketing partner of the Sounders starting in 2018. It marks the end of a nine-year partnership with industry incumbent Ticketmaster. Founded in 2009 and equipped with $160 million in investment, SeatGeek has differentiated itself from other ticketing platforms with SeatGeek Open, which lets teams, artists, and others sell tickets across the internet and directly within other apps and websites. It’s different than Ticketmaster,… Read More
It’s hard to imagine Seattle’s sports scene over the past two decades without the Seahawks in town, but that could have been a reality without Paul Allen. The NFL franchise paid tribute to the Microsoft co-founder before Sunday’s home opener against San Francisco to honor his 20 years of owning the Seahawks franchise. Thanks for 20 great years, #12s! #GoHawks pic.twitter.com/X7HykL5wTP — Paul Allen (@PaulGAllen) September 17, 2017 #ThanksPaul — Seattle Seahawks (@Seahawks) September 17, 2017 The team played a short video thanking Allen before he stepped on the field inside a stadium that wouldn’t exist without him. The 64-year-old… Read More
Seahawks quarterback and Super Bowl Champion Russell Wilson has a lot of fans — and he wants a better way to connect with them. That’s one of the reasons Wilson founded TraceMe, a new Seattle-based startup building a platform for “superfans” to connect with celebrities, sports stars, and artists. As the startup gets off the ground, it’s looking for engineers that can make that platform a reality. The company is currently seeking senior frontend and backend engineers to build the tech behind TraceMe’s platform. The backend engineer will own the end-to-end architecture and development of the company’s services and lead a backend development… Read More
As part of Apple’s flurry of announcements today, the company unveiled new augmented reality features for its new iPhone devices and showed off the technology integrated with MLB’s At Bat app. The brief demo showed how a user at a baseball game can point an iPhone at the live action and see player stats on the screen above the actual players. New technology packed into the iPhone camera helps make it all happen. ¡La app de realidad aumentada para la @MLB se ve impresionante ! #AppleEvent pic.twitter.com/jTkRA0Mwuk — El Monitor MX (@SomosElMonitor) September 12, 2017 .@MLB's At Bat #AR app… Read More
The biggest upgrade at CenturyLink Field this season may go unnoticed by most Seahawks fans — and that’s just the way the team likes it. Tucked in the southwest corner of Seattle’s NFL stadium is a room packed with technology that controls what fans see on the video boards and hear on the speakers throughout CenturyLink Field on Sundays. For every Seahawks game, more than 20 people — a mix of engineers, directors, producers, editors, and more — post up in the control room and work together for several hours to help enhance the gameday experience for more than 69,000… Read More
