VERNON, CT–(Marketwire – September 1, 2009) – Ticket Summit, the leading conference and trade show for ticketing and entertainment executives, today announced that it has partnered with iggli, inc. to expand its reach to Ticket Summit attendees, enabling industry professionals to network online prior to the conference. The Ticket Summit conference and tradeshow will take place January 13-15, 2010 at The Waldorf=Astoria hotel in New York City.
iggli’s Web 2.0 viral marketing tool — invite — leverages the power of friend-to-friend communication to sell more tickets and enables partners to promote events, programs and ticketing opportunities to large fan bases. The company’s green invite button is designed to be placed in emails, on web pages and on ticket purchase confirmation pages. A single click on the button generates an instant invitation to an event that is distributed to other individual contacts via email and social networks similar to Facebook and Twitter. All invite users have a single online destination to post notes, manage responses, track social conversations and buy tickets to events.
“We look forward to integrating the invite service to provide ticketing and entertainment professionals with a medium through which they can pre-network before Ticket Summit, and chat about the industry as a whole,” said Dr. Molly A. Martinez, Executive Director, Ticket Summit. “The web is improving everyone’s ability to reach larger audiences and iggli’s service will help us achieve our overall conference goals,” added Martinez.
iggli CEO Tom Higley also stated: “We’re excited that Ticket Summit has selected iggli’s invite service to boost their 2010 conference attendance. It’s a great venue for us to showcase the effectiveness of our service and for Ticket Summit to connect with ticketing and entertainment professionals and sell more tickets to the event,” added Higley.
Ticket Summit –Ticket Summit is the world’s leading conference and trade show in the ticketing industry. This event attracts hundreds of global business leaders, entrepreneurs, and entertainment experts in the ticket community. Past attendees and sponsors include Billboard, eBay, Forbes, Google, Live Nation, NBA, NFL, NHL, StubHub, and Ticketmaster, among others. Ticket Summit was founded in 2006 by host company TicketNetwork, Inc. Ticket Summit 2010 is scheduled to take place at The Waldorf=Astoria in New York City January 13-15. For more information on Ticket Summit visit www.TicketSummit.org.
About iggli, inc. — Founded in 2007, iggli, inc. is the creator of invite, a web-based invitation service that serves fans and providers in the sports and entertainment ticketing industry. Fans use the service to create invitations for ticketed events, track responses, and create social conversations around an event. Partners, such as ticketing sites, venues, promoters, artists, sports teams and event aggregation sites, use invite to generate more awareness of events and make it easier for visitors to invite friends and buy tickets. For more information about iggli and invite, visit http://iggli.com/partners.
Molly A. Martinez, Ph.D.
Ticket Summit
molly@ticketsummit.org
Tracy Collier
iggli, inc.
tracy@iggli.com