LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept.
15, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- T-Mobile Arena, Las Vegas' newest sports and entertainment
venue, named StubHub, the world's largest ticket marketplace, and
AXS, a leading ticketing and digital media platform, as its
official secondary ticketing partners.
The strategic agreement, negotiated by AEG Global Partnerships,
also designates both StubHub and AXS as T-Mobile Arena as Official
Founding Partners of T-Mobile Arena. As part of the deal, both
sites will be open and integrated, providing consumers with the
ability to seamlessly list and purchase tickets with greater ease
and security, across both platforms, for each and every
transaction.
"We are excited to once again partner with StubHub and merge the
industry's most innovative, convenient and secure digital ticket
format, Flash Seats from AXS, with the leading marketplace for
tickets, StubHub," said Bryan
Perez, president and CEO of AXS. "Through this
partnership, T-Mobile Arena is leading the way in fan convenience,
flexibility and security."
With this new partnership, customers will have the ability to
link to their StubHub and AXS accounts, seamlessly access their
available tickets, post them for resale, purchase authenticated
tickets and scan into events at T-Mobile Arena, from the StubHub or
AXS Flash Seats Mobile apps for iOS or Android.
Perkins Miller, general
manager, North America, at
StubHub, said, "Las Vegas is a
premier destination for live events, and by joining forces with
AEG, AXS and T-Mobile Arena, StubHub is delivering on our vision to
connect people around the world with the thrill of live events. As
an official resale partner, StubHub will offer event-goers a
simple, reliable experience, integrated directly with T-Mobile
Arena, to find great seats to the best performances in the
city."
Las Vegas is a city known
worldwide for its live entertainment and T-Mobile Arena is
Las Vegas' newest home to the
biggest names in sports and entertainment. The multi-purpose arena,
a joint venture with AEG and MGM Resorts International, opened in
April 2016 and in its first year
hosted more than 75 live events.
Nick Baker, senior vice
president, AEG Global Partnerships, said, "We are thankful and
appreciative to continue to grow our long-standing global
relationship with StubHub. This is a true collaboration of
technological innovation and large market reach between AXS and
StubHub that will streamline the ticketing process for fans,
providing an end-to-end enhanced consumer experience."
In addition to the ticketing integration, StubHub and AXS will
receive a portfolio of sponsorship and marketing assets in the
venue, including a presenting sponsorship entitlement for StubHub
to the T-Mobile Arena Box Office, plus social and digital
collaborations.
About StubHub
At StubHub, our mission is simple: help
fans find fun. We connect fans with their favorite teams, shows and
artists and introduce them to the ones they'll love next. As the
largest ticket marketplace in the world, we enable fans to buy and
sell tickets to tens of thousands of events, whenever they want,
through our desktop and mobile experiences, including our StubHub
app for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Android. Offering a superior
fan experience at its core, StubHub reinvented the ticket resale
market in 2000 and continues to lead it through innovation. Our
industry firsts include the introduction of the first ticketing
application, the first interactive seat mapping tool and the first
live entertainment rewards program, Fan Rewards™. Our business
partners include more than 130 properties in MLB, NBA, NHL, MLS and
NCAA, plus AEG, AXS and Paciolan. With the acquisition of Ticketbis
in August 2016, throughout the world,
StubHub provides the total end-to-end event going experience.
StubHub is an eBay company (NASDAQ: EBAY). For more
information on StubHub, visit StubHub.com or follow @StubHub on
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or YouTube.com/StubHub.
About AXS (Note: pronounced "Access")
AXS is a leading ticketing, data, and marketing solutions provider
in the US, UK and Europe. The
company and its solutions empower more than 200 clients -- teams,
arenas, theaters, clubs and colleges-- to turn data into action,
maximize the value of all their events and create joy for fans. It
is an enterprise event technology platform that services venues,
promoters and sports teams; providing fans the opportunity to
purchase tickets directly from their favorite venues via a
user-friendly ticketing interface. AXS serves all phases of the
event life-cycle beyond just ticketing, through its consumer facing
website, AXS.com and the AXS App. Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, AXS employs more than
400 professionals in multiple locations worldwide: Cleveland, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, London and Stockholm.
About T-Mobile Arena
T-Mobile Arena, the 20,000-seat
venue located on the Las Vegas Strip between New York-New York and Monte Carlo, opened April 6, 2016. The arena hosts more than 100
events annually including major headline entertainment, awards
shows, UFC, boxing, basketball and other sporting events, family
shows and special events. This fall T-Mobile Arena will
welcome the Vegas Golden Knights, a National Hockey League
expansion team and the city's first professional sports team. The
city's newest landmark, recently named "Best New Major Concert
Venue" by Pollstar Magazine, features 50 luxury suites, more than
two dozen private loge boxes, complete broadcast facilities, and
other specially designed exclusive hospitality offerings and fan
amenities destined to create a guest experience second to none.
Toshiba Plaza, an adjacent two-acre outdoor entertainment space,
features performance stages, a variety of video screens and other
interactive content and display areas. Industry-leading
architect Populous designed T-Mobile Arena to meet the U.S. Green
Building Council's standards for LEED® Gold Certification. T-Mobile
Arena is a privately funded joint venture between AEG and MGM
Resorts International. For more information, visit the T-Mobile
Arena website at www.t-mobilearena.com.
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