event-discovery
(5)
Eventbrite and the price of an empty room
Eventbrite made it easier to put on a show. Its costly experiment with organizer fees revealed something harder: keeping the people who fill the calendar.
Peatix sells the ticket. The return visit is the real business.
A ticket gets you through the door. Peatix wants to give you a reason to come back - and its latest redesign admits how much work remains between those two things.
The Calendar That Learned to Go Looking
Seeker began by asking travelers to share the places they loved. Then it found the more interesting problem: towns already had plenty to share, but no sane way to keep track of it all.
Posh Built the Operating System for a Night Out - Now It Wants to Pick Where You Go
The New York startup won organizers with faster payouts, built-in promotion and pages that keep the host in the spotlight. After processing $350 million in ticket sales, its next trick is harder: making the group chat choose a plan.
SeatGeek
SeatGeek is a New York-based ticketing company that runs a mobile-first marketplace for live sports, concerts and theater alongside an enterprise platform that powers primary ticketing for teams, leagues and venues. It is best known for Deal Score, an algorithm that rates every listing by price and seat value, and it competes with Ticketmaster and StubHub across both the primary and secondary ticket markets.