Eventbrite unveils Eventbrite Venue

PRESS RELEASE:

Eventbrite,the world’s largest event technology platform which powers more than two million events around the globe each year, today announced Eventbrite Venue, the first fully integrated booking, operations and ticketing solution tailor-made for music venues. This newproduct combines the capabilities of Queue, a company Eventbrite acquired in early 2016, with the ticketing power of Eventbrite through a single login and interface. Eventbrite Venue delivers unparalleled efficiencies via a mobile-optimized platform that consolidatesand simplifies the process of booking artists, selling tickets, and settling at the end of the night. Early access to the product is available today.

Eventbrite Venue was born out of a union between Eventbrite and Queue, the industry-leading platform built to streamline workflow for venues and promoters. Queue was created in 2012 by a team focused on solving the most painful and time-consuming challenges encountered during their time running venues, producing events, booking and promoting shows.

“We acquired Queue because it’s a superior product that solves a glaring pain point for venues, built by a team of expert engineers who had all moonlit as live music promoters, venue managers, and talent bookers,” said Julia Hartz, CEO and Co-Founder, Eventbrite. “Eventbrite Venue replaces up to five different systems with one single interface, specifically designed for event producers, enabling them to focus on delivering incredible live music experiences.”

Eventbrite Venue removes the need for the countless spreadsheets and cumbersome manual processes venues had come to rely on to run their business. It was critical to replace these known operational inefficiencies with one single interface, unlike many of the cobbled together venue management and ticketing products on the market today, to truly drive process simplification and cost savings.  The platform enables easy management of artist holds, organization of booking calendars, and storage of documents like riders, artist contracts and settlement reports in a collaborative space, in addition to seamless integration with

Eventbrite’s best-in-class ticketing, real-time analytics and reporting dashboards, marketing tools, and mobile box office and point-of-sale tools through Eventbrite Organizer.

“In the live music industry, back office inefficiencies eat directly into already tight profit margins, and distract venues from delivering experiences that keep fans coming back time and time again,” said Greg Patterson, Director of Music and Live Events at Eventbrite, and former CEO and Co-Founder of Queue. “The business of running a successful live music venue is rife with tasks that take too much time,but fortunately, inefficiency is a problem technology can solve, and Eventbrite Venue does just that.”

Eventbrite Venue is yet another marker of accelerated momentum in the live music space for Eventbrite, after yesterday’s acquisition announcement of European music powerhouse, Ticketscript, and the  addition of a significant number of new live music customers in 2016, including Margin Walker Presents, Mohawk, Sidewinder, Barracuda and Paper Tiger in Texas, and iconic Chicago venues, Lincoln Hall and Schubas Tavern. Through its history servicing the world’s most famous live event venues and music festivals, Eventbrite has ticketed more than 175,000 concerts and music festivals, helping these venues, promoters and festivals sell nearly $1B in tickets. Over 60 million consumers using Eventbrite each year to discover a variety of live experiences and get tickets on a secure, easy-to-use platform.