LOS ANGELES--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--May 25, 1999--
Ticketmaster and The FoxMan Group have formed a strategic alliance whereby Ticketmaster will provide the sports and entertainment industries with access to FoxMan's online consumer data management technology. Additionally, Ticketmaster will utilize FoxMan technology to develop expanded Internet initiatives, including online pre-sale promotions, for its clients, touring artists, and events.
Ticketmaster will provide the sports and entertainment industries with the opportunity to integrate FoxMan's FanTracker(c) and TourBiz(c) software into their own online systems, as well as into on-site Ticketmaster ticketing systems . FanTracker will enable users to accrue and manage comprehensive consumer data collected online as fans visit the user's website. Additionally, the technology will enable users to communicate directly with online fans. TourBiz will provide users with extensive facility and financial management software.
"We're excited to be working with FoxMan to provide the sports and entertainment industries with the newest cutting-edge technology to extend their online consumer reach and to help them develop creative and effective Internet promotions," said Jeff Kline, Executive Vice President, Ticketmaster. "We look forward to including FanTracker and TourBiz among the many resources we provide to our clients and our industry. We also look forward to utilizing the technology to expand our own on and off-line initiatives."
"FoxMan's FanTracker(c) software combined with Ticketmaster's engine creates a new business model for artists, promoters, venues and other Ticketmaster customers to expand their services and demographic via the Internet," David Cooper, CTO/Founder of FoxMan, said. "This alliance will enable an organization's loyal patrons to benefit from various exclusive offers prior to other marketing paradigms offered to the general public. The consumer will also have the option to purchase a wider selection of merchandise and services."
Ticketmaster, a USA company (Nasdaq:USAI) is the world's leading ticketing service; selling 75 million tickets valued at more than 2.5 billion dollars, through more than 3,400 retail Ticket Center outlets; 29 worldwide telephone call centers; and www.ticketmaster.com, through its relationship with Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch.
Ticketmaster serves more than 3,750 clients in the U.S., South America, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Australia. The company provides ticketing for 94 professional sports franchises and hundreds of leading arenas, stadiums, performing arts venues, and theaters including such prominent facilities as Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall in New York, the Great Western Forum and the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles and the United Center in Chicago. Clients receive comprehensive ticket inventory control and management, broad distribution, and dedicated marketing and support services. Consumers receive convenient access to tickets for more than 350,000 events a year, including a broad range of concerts, sports, family entertainment, performing arts, and movies.
The FoxMan Group, Inc., based in Norristown, Pennsylvania, is an Internet infrastructure company that has created and developed an array of proprietary marketing, customer acquisition, e-commerce, and customer retention software tools. FoxMan's licensed website operators and joint venture partners use FoxMan's VisitorTracker(c) and FanTracker(c) software systems to perform circular transactions of information and commerce via the Internet directly with both business and individual consumer customers. The FoxMan Group also sells, and services with technical support, TourBiz(c), a management and accounting software system used extensively by the touring entertainment industry.
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