TicketsNow is among the largest ticket marketplaces in the world. Adding TicketsNow as a ticket search partner means FanSnap now displays the latest ticket-level detail results for 16+ million sports, theater, and concert tickets. FanSnap’s ultimate objective is to work with every ticket provider in the U.S. to provide fans unparalleled choice and the best value for their entertainment dollar.

We are pleased to welcome TicketsNow, a leader and pioneer in the industry, to what is rapidly becoming the most extensive accurate view of the available live event tickets on the market. The timing couldn’t be better.  We’re approaching one of the hottest times of the live event calendar, when fans are buying MLB tickets, NBA tickets, NHL tickets, NCAA Tournament tickets, and gearing up for the big concert ticket season.

We look forward to making it fast and easy for fans to see the wide selection of high quality tickets available on TicketsNow.com.

Many, many thanks to the FanSnap and TicketsNow teams that made this possible!

The National Championship game is set and it is huge. Alabama and Texas face off in this year’s BCS National Championship game (BCS National Championship Game: Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Texas Longhorns tickets. Tickets for the January 7 game are averaging $1,376. The get-in price (lowest price ticket) is currently $800.

Here’s how the major bowl ticket picture is looking right now. BCS National Championship tickets average =1,376 (get-in = $800)
Orange Bowl tickets average = $233 (get-in = $63)
Fiesta Bowl tickets average =   $285 (get-in = $110)
Rose Bowl tickets average =     $455 (get-in =  $238)
Sugar Bowl tickets average =  $206 (get-in = $107)

For BCS National Championship tickets, Texans are outsearching Alabamans more than 2:1. People from 36 states and five countries have already searched for National Championship tickets.

Here are the states with the most BCS National Championship tickets searches:

Texas
California
Alabama
New York
Florida
Georgia
New Jersey
Tennessee
Connecticut
South Carolina

See also:

• Rose Bowl Tickets: Oregon Ducks vs. Ohio State Buckeyes
• Fiesta Bowl Tickets: Boise State Broncos vs. TCU Horned Frogs
• Orange Bowl Tickets: Georgia Tech vs. Iowa Hawkeyes
• Sugar Bowl Tickets: Florida Gators vs. Cincinnati Bearcats
• Cotton Bowl Tickets: Oklahoma State Cowboys vs. Ole Miss Rebels
• Meineke Car Care Bowl Tickets: North Carolina Tarheels vs. Pittsburgh Panthers
• Gator Bowl Tickets: West Virginia Mountaineers vs. Florida State Seminoles
• The Capital One Bowl Tickets Available: Penn State Nittany Lions vs. LSU Tigers
• Alamo Bowl Tickets Available for Texas Tech Red Raiders vs. Michigan State Spartans
• Las Vegas Bowl Tickets now Available for Oregon State Beavers vs. BYU Cougars
• Other Bowl tickets

Christian

The FanSnap Map team has been a juggernaut, continuing to create our patent-pending interactive maps for more and more venues at a stunning pace.  The latest milestone blown by?  500 maps!

Our newest FanSnap Maps now bring the joys of the pricing heat map and best value stars to fans on the prowl for college football tickets (with a special shout out to Pac 10, Big 10 and SEC fans).  Check out some great examples:

• USC Trojans @ Ohio State Buckeyes tickets
• Navy Midshipmen @ Notre Dame Fighting Irish tickets
• Syracuse Orangemen @ Penn State Nittany Lions tickets
• Oklahoma Sooners @ Texas Longhorns tickets
• Tennessee Volunteers @ Florida Gators tickets

Also, check out our new FanSnap Maps, designed especially to help you find Broadway tickets, built out for more of the top current and upcoming shows, including:

• Wicked tickets
• Lion King tickets
• Billy Elliot tickets
• Jersey Boys tickets
• Memphis the Musical tickets

Have fun!

Mike

On FanSnap, searching fans rarely select a single sports, concert, or theatre ticket.  They pick two, four, …or more tickets.

Of course this makes sense - the best thing about going to events is sharing the experience with your family, friends, or colleagues.

Equally obvious, when several fans go to an event together, they don’t each buy a ticket.  One buys them all.  The “organizer.”  The most trusted member of the group (maybe the designated-driver as well?)  Often this person checks out the options and gains approval from the group before buying.

One day, if a track record of outstanding seat recommendations has been built up, this paragon of fandom is given the proxy for the group.  Yes - they are authorized to buy on behalf of the group.  Post-purchase, they let the group know where they will be sitting.  Now that’s trust.  (For family purchases, it goes without saying that mom usually handles everything.)

Which are you?  The organizer.  The “empowered” organizer?  Mom?  Or are you the lucky beneficiary of the efforts of one of these wonderful people?  It doesn’t matter.  FanSnap has a great feature to make life easy for you all.

Sharing!

Just by clicking on the icons, you can share a single ticket set, your “short list” of tickets, or all the tickets for an event.  And on FanSnap you have lots of ways to share - Facebook, Twitter, Email, MySpace, and Digg.

Need a group “thumbs up” for your selection?  You can click on any of the sharing icons at the top right of the ticket selection page to share all of the ticket choices you see for an event, or just your narrowed list of tickets.  You will also find sharing icons next to each individual ticket set, in case you would like to share a particularly high potential listing.

After you have found the perfect tickets on FanSnap, and purchased them from one of our dozens of ticket partners, we give you one final opportunity to share that information as well.

As one of the other fans in the group receiving this information, you can easily click on the link and see the ticket information!  No confusion.  No more asking “where are the tickets again?” or “did you get good ones?”

The FanSnap team is hard at work, making it as easy as possible for you (and your group) to find - and share - the perfect tickets. Let us know how we are doing, and what you want us to work on next!

Mike

As if seeing the amazing variety of great sports, theatre, and concert tickets available and getting the most value for your money (not to mention saving lots of time) aren’t enough reason to use the FanSnap search engine all the time (and to tell all your friends and family about us) …

During May, all fans who sign up on FanSnap will be eligible for our “Fans Welcome” drawing.  On June 1, the winner will be randomly selected, and will be able to select $1,000 worth of FREE sports, concert, or theatre tickets from any of the dozens of ticket companies FanSnap searches!  The second and third place winners will be able to select $500, and $250, worth of free tickets, respectively.

BONUS: Have family, friends, or colleagues who are also fans?  After you sign up, every time you use the share feature on FanSnap, you will receive an extra entry in the drawing!

This is the time of year to be a fan looking for great tickets!  Concerts.  Baseball.  Basketball and hockey playoffs.  Football tickets available already.  Broadway and the national theatre tours.  There are over fourteen million ticket listings available in the FanSnap ticket search results!

Check out the site and sign up!

Many thanks to the brothers (literally) over at AllMyFaves for naming FanSnap to their latest “weekly faves” list.  AllMyFaves is a pretty cool site that highlights the latest and greatest on the web in a really quick and easy format.  Over the years, we have discovered several great entertainment, kids, shopping, and travel sites on their recommendation.  If you get a minute, check it out.

Mike

On September 23^rd last year we opened www.fansnap.com and told you our goal was to create “a “fast, easy (and free) way for you to find your perfect tickets.”   In announcing our beta site, we told you it was big job and asked for your help.  We asked you to tell us how to make it better.  You did.  We did.  We especially appreciate your feedback on the interactive maps.

We are pleased to announce that the FanSnap ticket search engine has officially launched, and today we unveiled a new version of the ticket search engine.  We are also happy to announce:

• FanSnap’s ticket results now include more than 13 million tickets to 40,000 events from 57 ticket companies, with the addition of newest partner eBay tickets;
• FanSnap’s dynamic FanSnap Maps have been created for 215 of the top venues in the U.S., with many more on the way;
• FanSnap’s new “best value” feature, which highlights at-a-glance those ticket offers that are priced significantly lower than surrounding offers;
• FanSnap’s new “view from seat” feature for many venues (e.g., try Dodger or Angel stadiums, Fenway or AT&T parks, or Wrigley or US Cellular Fields) that will be rolled out over the next month.

Our goal was to launch in time for you find great March Madness tickets, MLB tickets for opening day, and concert tickets to all the new tours being announced daily it seems.  Check it out; the choices and values are really fascinating.

Even though we are out of beta, please keep sending us your thoughtful suggestions using the feedback link on the site.   We have learned a lot through this process, and we know we still have lots of work to do.  In fact, we have a number of great new features already in development!

The FanSnap team is working hard, and the journey remains exhilarating.  The path to being as comprehensive, accurate, fast, and easy as possible never ends…   You have played a critical role on our launch team.  We could not have launched today without you.  Feel free to put this experience on your resume.  Put us down as your reference.

Thank you for telling so many of your friends and colleagues about FanSnap.  Please keep sending them our way.  Going to events has always been a great escape from the news of the day.  Especially in these economic times, we want to help you get the best value for your entertainment dollar.

We remain focused on fans.

Mike

The map team has been working around the clock and we are pleased to announce that FanSnap now has more than 210 of our patent-pending interactive maps for your viewing pleasure.  We have built them out for MLB, NBA, NHL, concerts - we even have the NFL ready for when football tickets go on sale.

So many choices!  Cubs fans will want to use a FanSnap Map to check out the first Cubbies-Cards game of the year.  North-siders can check out the first White Sox-Twins game.  We have a little something for fans in pretty much every city.

Have fun checking out our comprehensive selection of ticket results from 57 ticketing companies (all at once!) in this easy-to-use way.  One day, sooner than you think, you will tell your kids about the old days when you used to have to look for tickets from a list!  Then you can tell them about walking to school in the snow, uphill, both ways.

Mike

By popular demand, FanSnap’s ticket results now include tickets from our newest partner, eBay.

Fans have been buying and selling tickets on eBay almost from the moment the pioneering web site launched.  Many ticket sellers only sell their tickets on eBay, so this announcement means lots of new ticket choices for you.

This brings us to 57 ticketing companies who have integrated with our FanSnap TicketData^sm system, giving “fans of FanSnap” by far the most comprehensive, accurate view of available tickets and prices from the best of the web.  Many, many thanks to the FanSnap and eBay teams that made this possible!

Mike