Ticketfly CEO Andrew Dreskin to speak at Ticket Summit
December 17, 2009
Ticketfly CEO and co-founder, Andrew Dreskin, has been invited to be part of the Keynote Sessions at the January Ticket Summit! Dreskin will join CEO’s from other top ticketing companies, like Tickets.com and Ticketmaster, to discuss the future of ticketing. Ticket Summit is the leading conference and trade show for ticketing and entertainment executives. January’s conference will run over three days from Jan 13-Jan 15. The ‘Fly is honored to be included! Check out the full release below for all the important details.
Top CEOs to Speak at Keynote Session at Ticket Summit
Ticketmaster, Tickets.com, TicketFly and Veritix CEOs to Provide Insight on the Future of the Primary Ticket Market
VERNON, CT–(Marketwire – December 7, 2009) - Ticket Summit, the leading conference and trade show for ticketing and entertainment executives, today announced its notable roster of top CEOs slated to speak at the event’s Keynote session. The Ticket Summit January conference — a three-day event scheduled January 13-15, 2010 at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York City — will include a Keynote session Friday, January 15 featuring Sean Moriarty (Former CEO, Ticketmaster), Larry Witherspoon (CEO, Tickets.com), Andrew Dreskin (CEO, TicketFly), and Jeff Kline (President, Veritix).
The Ticket Summit Keynote session is scheduled to be among the culminating events of the three-day conference, following a variety of sessions ranging from ticket pricing strategies and event promotion, to brand-building, and sports and entertainment. “The Ticket Summit Keynote Session on January 15 is bound to be the conference’s most paramount event yet,” said Dr. Molly A. Martinez, Executive Director, Ticket Summit. “With ticketing agents, event promoters, venue managers, and primary ticket distributors all in the same room, the dialogue on the state of the industry will be extremely insightful.”
More than five-hundred attendees from the United States and throughout the world are expected to attend the upcoming conference. TicketNetwork CEO Don Vaccaro observed: “Ticket Summit is by far the must-attend conference where all the key players in the ticket industry come to network. And with the addition of such a notable keynote session, attendees are going to get to be part of a dialogue that’s truly one-of-a-kind.”
About Ticket Summit
Ticket Summit is the world’s leading conference and trade show for ticketing and entertainment. This event attracts hundreds of global business leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainment experts in the ticket community. Past attendees and sponsors include: Billboard, eBay, Forbes, Google, Live Nation, NBA, NFL, NHL, StubHub, Ticketmaster, among others. Ticket Summit was founded in 2006 by host company TicketNetwork, Inc. The upcoming Ticket Summit conference and trade show is scheduled to take place at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York, NY, January 13-15. For information, visit www.TicketSummit.org
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The ‘Fly Featured in Billboard!
December 15, 2009
Billboard spoke recently with Ticketfly founders Dan Teree and Andrew Dreskin to discuss the convergence of social media and the ticketing industry. Check out the full article below!
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Ticketfly Uses Social Media To Get The Word Out About Purchases
Technology has lowered the barriers to entry to the ticketing market. At the same time, social media has emerged as a key influencer. These two paths converge with the launch of Ticketfly, which aims to be a ticketer, marketer and digital ticketing facilitator, while building fan communities around the ticket-buying experience.
Ticketfly’s founding partners/co-CEOs Dan Teree and Andrew Dreskin—veteran execs of pioneering Internet ticketing company Ticketweb, which Ticketmaster acquired in 2000—are getting traction out of the gate with such clients as the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.; Knitting Factory venues; and the recently signed Troubadour in West Hollywood. And Ticketfly just raised a fresh round of capital.
In launching Ticketfly six months ago, Teree and Dreskin think they’ve built a better mousetrap, at least when it comes to online opportunities. “It seemed to us that ticketing software hadn’t changed all that much for the past decade,” Dreskin says. “You’re looking for a system that does inventory management, doesn’t oversell, you get a check on time. There are plenty of those that do that. But promoters seem keen on the next generation of ticketing technology, which will allow them to maximize revenue and have more efficient pricing.”
While Ticketfly is building technologies to deal with such issues as yield management and dynamic pricing, marketing is now a key focus. In many cases, when the Ticketfly guys think marketing, they’re thinking social media and the opportunity for venues and promoters to leverage the ticket buyer as a sales or marketing channel.
A good example of this is how Ticketfly uses Facebook to reach its growing user base, particularly in the key 20-35 demo. Ticketfly’s strategies start with such basic initiatives as rewarding Facebook users who share concert experiences with friends.
“Ticketfly is very focused on creating reward programs that excite and stimulate fans to tell their friends about what’s going on in their music lives, rewarding them with free tickets, meet the band, VIP packages, things like that,” Teree says.
“If you think about a kid buying a ticket and sending it to his [Facebook] wall, and all of his friends seeing that ticket having the ability to buy a ticket,” Dreskin adds, “then the kid can generate points, and for every one of those folks that buys a ticket and sends it to their wall, you think about the magnitude of the exponential opportunity there for the promoters.”
Ticketfly also helps venues and promoters coordinate their various digital marketing efforts.
“The way the ticketing world works today is you have silos that don’t really speak to each other, and it creates inefficiencies,” Dreskin says. “If I’m a promoter and I have the White Stripes or whatever band coming, and when I confirm that act I have to build it into my ticketing software, I have to have it built on my Web site, my e-mail newsletter, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter. What we’ve done is develop an integrated solution where it’s single data entry and it updates down the line.”
Ticketing clubs and small venues are one thing, but the game changes dramatically when it’s a major tour at a large venue with a hot on-sale. This is where the scale and experience of a Ticketmaster comes into play. Live Nation launched an in-house ticketing company this year and attracted attention when a massive Phish tour on-sale melted down the system (Billboard.biz, Feb. 4).
Dreskin says Ticketfly isn’t ready for a huge stadium show—yet. “The way technology has advanced has made it significantly more possible for young, technology-heavy companies like ours to handle big demand,” he says. “One thing we set out to do when we started the company was architect the system in a way that allows us to be highly scaleable and handle big demand. What only Ticketmaster could do 15 years ago with the big iron is just not the case anymore. While we’re not ready for the big stadium on-sale today, there’s no reason why we won’t be in 12 months or so.”
Does Ticketfly’s rapid growth support Ticketmaster and Live Nation’s contention that their merger won’t prevent other ticketing companies from flourishing?
“That’s certainly crossed our mind,” Dreskin says. “We’ve been selling tickets for like six months, and we’ve already signed up 10-20 of the best club-sized venues and promoters in the U.S. We don’t see any reason why we can’t move upstream and handle larger facilities, promoters, and events. There’s certainly no shortage of competitors, but we’re feeling optimistic for sure.”
Billboard // December 12, 2009 // Ray Waddell
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Big Ears Festival “Inner Ear” Weekend Passes!
December 11, 2009
Ticketfly is happy to announce the sale of the Big Ears Festival 2010 “Inner Ear” Weekend Festival Pass! Big Ears, now in its 2ndyear, is known for showcasing talent that breaks away from the ordinary. This year will be no different with artist in residence Terry Riley. Riley, who inspired generations with the creation of the Minimalist movement, will perform at several shows throughout the festival. Other acts set to appear include: Vampire Weekend, Joanna Newsom, St. Vincent, the xx, Andrew WK, DJ/Rupture, Gang Gang Dance, jj, Clogs, My Brightest Diamond, Javelin, and Nico Muhly.
The Big Ears 2010 “Inner Ear” Weekend Festival Pass offers premium access to all Big Ears 2010 happenings throughout the entire weekend (subject to available capacity for each venue, this will be based on first come, first serve basis) as well as exclusive invitations and access to select special events.
There are only a limited number of badges available so grab one while you can ‘Flyers! This is sure to be a memorable weekend!
Big Ears Festival Returns in 2010 March 26-27-28 Composer Terry Riley Confirmed As Artist In Residence
KNOXVILLE, TN. The BIG EARS FESTIVAL is proud to announce another weekend of visionary music, exploratory art, and southern hospitality for March 26, 27, and 28 in historic Knoxville, Tennessee.
This time, BIG EARS is especially proud to host the legendary American composer TERRY RILEY as Artist in Residence for the weekend with a series of concerts throughout the weekend celebrating Riley’s 75th Birthday year. In addition, the weekend will feature an exciting array of artists and performers from the worlds of rock, jazz, classical, and avant-garde music along with installations, exhibitions, interactive experiences, talks, and workshops.
One of the most influential musicians and composers of the past century, TERRY RILEY’s impact and influence on contemporary music and art cannot be overstated. In 1964, his revolutionary composition, In C, launched the Minimalist movement in music and his influence is still heard today in the work of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John Adams and other classical composers. His subsequent early works, A Rainbow in Curved Air and Poppy Nogood, with their kaleidoscopic, psychedelic atmospheres, sent waves across the musical worlds of the 1960s, strongly reflected in the music of The Who, Pink Floyd, and other rock bands of the time. That influence continues today in the music of Radiohead and Animal Collective and even The National and Bon Iver. It’s no surprise that TERRY RILEY was recently selected by the London Times as one of the “1000 Makers of the 20th Century.”
“It’s a tremendous honor to have Terry Riley participate in our festival this year. It’s a dream come true.” says Big Ears founder, Ashley Capps, also a creator and producer of the renowned Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
RILEY himself will perform in several different concerts of his work during the weekend, with a variety of musicians. Also, the Calder String Quartet will present a program of his work. And a sure highlight of the weekend will come when many of the artists performing during the weekend join together for an unforgettable performance of In C,“one of the definitive masterpieces of the 20th Century.”
Additions to the BIG EARS line up along with ticketing information will be released in early December.
Additional Info:
BIG EARS debuted in February 2009 in Knoxville, Tennessee with a line up that included Philip Glass & Wendy Sutter, Antony & the Johnsons, Jon Hassell, the Necks, Fennesz, Pauline Oliveros, Negativland, Michael Gira, Sparklehorse, Ned Rothenberg, Dan Deacon, Neil Hamburger, and others.
The mission of BIG EARS is to offer an exciting and dynamic platform of musical and artistic discovery by artists possessed of singular and unique visions that stand apart from the mainstream.
Response to the first BIG EARS was phenomenal from audiences and artists alike. Here’s a small sampling of what was said:
“It was a tremendous experience….It’s my impression that there’s a real cultural renaissance going on in the south…I look forward to coming back.” –Philip Glass
“…the best audience we’ve played for in America.” –Wendy Sutter
“You could say that Big Ears was for people who like hearing nuanced music in excellent theaters, in a small town with no hassle…at times, it was heaven.” –The New York Times
“…an inspiration…Artists shared advice. Fans shared gratitude. Collaborations abounded. Surprises happened.”–Pitchfork
“A phenomenal success. If next year is even half as eclectic and adventurous as the first Big Ears, it will be incredible before it even starts.” –Creative Loafing (Atlanta)
“There was something strange and somewhat magical about the atmosphere in downtown Knoxville this weekend.”–The Knoxville News-Sentinel
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Noise Pop 2010 Badges are Here!
December 09, 2009
Holiday cheer! Ticketfly is pleased to announce the sale of Noise Pop 2010 festival badges! Noise Pop is one of San Francisco’s most celebrated indie music, art and film festivals. Festival badges grant access to general admission concerts, films, happy hours and other events held between Feb 23 and March 1, 2010. Badges go on sale today, December 9, 2009.
Having a badge also allows you to register for the Industry Noise Conference at a reduced rate, and as a sweet token of appreciation you will be able to add a free subscription to DEATH + TAXES, “the tastemaker’s music magazine,” upon checkout.
Throughout the festival we’ll be bopping our heads at venues across the city. Come experience one of the best weeks in San Francisco music with us!
NOISE POP 2010 FESTIVAL DATES AND EARLY ARTIST CONFIRMATIONS ANNOUNCED;
Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines & Foreign Born
The 18th Annual Noise Pop Festival Will Take Place February 23 through March 1, 2010
Industry Noise Will Take Place on Saturday February 27th, 2010 At the Swedish American Hall
Dec 7, 2009—San Francisco, CA— Event Producers, Noise Pop Industries, have announced the dates of the West Coast’s premiere celebration of independent music, film and art – Noise Pop 2010. The 18th annual Noise Pop Festival will take place February 23rd through March 1, 2010 at venues throughout San Francisco, CA.
“Noise Pop has been described as one of California’s most important music festivals, and is a perfect opportunity to experience San Francisco’s world renowned music scene, and the 18th year will be no exception.” Co-Founder Kevin Arnold
Early artist confirmations include Magnetic Fields, Mark Kozelek, Rogue Wave, Atlas Sound, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Four Tet, John Vanderslice, We Were Promised Jet Packs, Wallpaper, Zee Avi, The Limousines & Foreign Born. More shows will be announced in the coming weeks along with films, art shows, and more.
Industry Noise will take place on Saturday, February 27th, 2010 at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. Noise Pop’s mini-conference discusses independent music, technology, and the changing industry. Musicians, independent labels, music bloggers, managers, and others involved in music shouldn’t miss this event. Attendees can meet industry pros, listen to influential speakers, advance their artistic and business ventures, and learn more about current possibilities and opportunities. In addition to panels and speakers, there are small discussion groups and individual mentoring. Panelists and Keynote speakers will be announced soon. Industry Noise Badges go onsale on Wednesday, December 9th for $65 or $50 along with the purchase of a full festival badge.
Noise Pop Festival Badges go onsale Wednesday Dec 9th at Noon for $150. A limited number of badges include access to the Magnetic Fields show at the Fox Theater on Saturday February 27th, or the Herbst Theater on Monday March 1, 2010. Tickets to individual shows go onsale Saturday December 12, 2009. Noise Pop Festival news updates will also be featured on Noisepop.com
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