Ticketfly unveils ‘first of its kind’ products to identify and reward top fans

Ticketfly unveiled its latest product Fanbase, a suite of customer analytics products that founder Andrew Dreskin said is a first of its kind. Venues and event promoters can use Fanbase to identify their top fans and offer them rewards for loyalty.

Ticketmaster finally getting rid of its awful CAPTCHA verification system

No. 1 ticketing service Ticketmaster is finally ditching its terrible captcha system for verification and will use new tech that will make it easier to buy tickets faster.

Ticketfly takes $22M to keep up its rapid growth: venues up 65% in 2012

Ticketfly, the online ticketing website, today announced a new infusion of cash: $22 million in the startup’s third round of institutional funding.

The new money comes from SAP Ventures, which led the round. Northgate Capital, Cross Creek Capital, and Series …

TickPick takes on StubHub with new site design, Priceline-like auctions (exclusive)

Secondary ticket sales startup TickPick has revamped its site and sales algorithms in a new effort to take on StubHub and Craigslist, the company revealed Tuesday.

TickPick offers a marketplace for reselling already purchased tickets, but it differentiates itself from …

TicketLeap relaunches with deeper social integration, better mobile apps, & more

Ticketing startup TicketLeap has relaunched with a new logo, webpages that encourage more social interaction, and updated iOS and Android apps that create a mobile box office, the company announced Monday morning.

TicketLeap competes in a similar space to Eventbrite …

Path CEO Dave Morin to join Eventbrite’s board of directors

Dave Morin, CEO of social-network Path, has joined ticketing startup Eventbrite‘s board of the directors, a move Eventbrite claims will help it continue innovating on the social front.

While Path had a major privacy blowup early this year, the company …

TicketLeap becomes first ticketing startup with reserved seating options (updated)

Ticking startup TicketLeap has become the first ticketing startup to add a reserved seating feature and the ability to create custom seating charts, the company announced today.

While Ticketmaster has offered the ability to do this for event organizers and …

Eventbrite launches first hardware product with “at the door” credit card reader

Popular ticketing startup Eventbrite has released a new credit card reader for the iPad to help event organizers create a mobile box office, the company announced late Tuesday.

The At The Door Card Reader, as it’s called, will interact the …

In likely march toward IPO, Eventbrite doubled revenue in 2011 (exclusive)

As popular ticketing startup Eventbrite moves slowly toward a likely IPO in the next year, the company’s financial situation appears strong with more than doubled revenue in 2011, the company has revealed exclusively to VentureBeat.

This has been quite a …

Ticketmaster and Facebook team up so you can sit with your friends

Facebook and Ticketmaster are making it somewhat easier to coordinate group outings to concerts, sporting events, monster truck rallies and the like with a new integration.

Ticketmaster’s new interactive seat maps will integrate with Facebook, so you can tag yourself …

Eventbrite aims big with $50M of new funding

Ticketing startup Eventbrite announced today that it has raised $50 million to finance its growing ambitions in the ticketing market.

The San Francisco company started out aiming for a different audience than existing ticketing giant Ticketmaster, offering an easy way …