The Kansas City Chiefs plan to move to a mobile-only ticketing system at Arrowhead Stadium in the near future, mirroring plans from teams across professional sports that are experimenting with ways fans can use their smartphones rather than paper tickets to check-in to games. At the National Football League’s annual meeting last week, Chiefs President […]
The Vegas Golden Knights are attempting to curb attendance of away-team fans at home games in the playoffs with a new digital ticketing program that stops ticket holders from reselling on StubHub. The Las Vegas-based hockey team will offer cheap tickets to season ticket holders for its first-round playoff series through a newly-created “Knights Vow” […]
Major League Baseball and Tickets.com have a solution for those times when you’re rushing to the game just before first pitch — as long as you own an Apple device. Tickets.com has partnered with technology provider Infinite Peripherals to continue implementing contactless ticketing at more MLB ballparks after a pilot with MLB and the Oakland […]
Some fans may have waited hours in the rain to get into the College Football Playoff national title game in Atlanta because a visit from President Donald Trump that put security on high alert, but as far as Ticketmaster is concerned, the mobile ticketing went “amazingly well.” In an interview with SportTechie after the game, […]
The NFL and Ticketmaster, which have a partnership that dates back to 2008, are extending their deal. Paramount in the new agreement is Ticketmaster providing the NFL with its next-generation venue software, Presence. Presence represents the move to a paperless, digital ticketing system. Using proximity-based technology, Presence deploys a “tap and go” system for fans […]
