Posts Tagged ‘sports’

FanSnap Partners With FanIQ

Monday, May 4th, 2009

Today we announced our partnership with FanIQ. The leading sports social network provides a rich sports and social experience through social fan interaction, casual games (trivia, quizzes, pick ’em), blogs, and scores/stats. FanIQ users go to FanIQ to gather information about their favorite teams, talk about the upcoming game, meet fellow fans of their teams, and to play team-related casual games.

initial implementation of FanSnap ticket content on FanIQ

Here are a few reasons FanIQ is  a nice match for us:

  • FanIQ is the largest independent sports site in the U.S. with more than 5.4MM unique visitors per month (March 2009). More than 35,000 people register for FanIQ each day.
  • FanIQ is home to large team communities. Fans build profiles and add team affiliations, which allows FanIQ them to provide users with the most interactive and personalized sports experience available anywhere.

Through our partnership, we’ll provide FanIQ users with highly targeted ticket content. Targeting is based on  fans’ favorite teams (from profiles) as well as location of the user.

FanIQ is a nice complement to our current partners Yardbarker and Bleacher Report.

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College Basketball League Tournament News

Sunday, March 8th, 2009

With the last regular season games completed today, the real college basketball season starts.  It’s March, and you know what that means.

This week, the big conferences have their league tournaments.  A chance for the strongest teams to lock in those high NCAA seeds, and for those “on the bubble” to impress the selection committee and score a bid next Sunday to the Big Dance.

This week is where Cinderellas get their start.  Thinking of going?  Check out the wide choice of tickets still available:

ACC Tournament tickets (Atlanta)

Big Ten Tournament tickets (Indianapolis)

Big 12 Tournament tickets (Oklahoma City)

Big East Tournament tickets (NYC)

Pac 10 Tournament tickets (LA)

SEC Tournament tickets (Tampa)

Enjoy the games!

Mike

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Posted in Fan Focused, NCAA Basketball Tickets News, Sports Tickets News

Rovell: 2009 is “The Year of the Sports Fan”

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

I just read Darren Rovell’s (the sports business reporter at CNBC - and most recently with ESPN) article, “The Year of the Sports Fan,” in the New Republic.  His key theme is that a silver lining in the current economic situation is that sports fans should expect to see more lots more TLC from their teams.

Darren mentions that, in recent years, many teams have been focused on corporate accounts, with premium tickets and services out of the reach of the typical fan.  What a difference a few hundred corporate bankruptcies and slashed client entertainment budgets can make.  He notes teams are now scrambling – freezing prices, lowering prices, and its promotional cousin – discounting multi-game packages, to reach out to the regular fans.  All good news for fans, of course.

He also notes that the ticket resale market has exploded.  He gives examples, using StubHub data, of how market prices in the resale market have declined year over year.  Of course, this has happened as well on many other resale web sites, such as eBay, TicketNetwork, Razorgator, and hundreds of licensed ticket brokers.  Teams and leagues now even endorse resale partners such as StubHub and Ticketmaster.  More good news for fans, as they are free to buy and sell to their advantage.

When fans have less money, they will be more careful how they spend it.  On the one hand, going to live events is clearly a luxury.  On the other, particularly in the current environment, experience has shown fans value experiences they can enjoy to help them escape their day-to-day worries.  At FanSnap, we know ticket market prices are always a function of supply and demand. For popular perceived-to-be unique events, the market value of tickets usually exceeds the original face value.  For other events, the market price can dip below face value.

Fans certainly do not lack for choices!  In this economy, season ticketholders will be selling many more of their tickets to individual games – tickets they used to use, give away, or eat. Now those tickets are a good source of cash, in a time when some can really make use of it.  All this new supply should put downward pressure on market prices.

What a great time for fans to have access to a ticket search engine!

Mike

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