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The company was founded by former Ticketmaster and Match.com executive Joe Cohen, and in 2009 it signed exclusive ticketing deals with MTV UK and the music festival Gaymers Camden Crawl, and in 2008 the company agreed to buy the entire share capital of Skelper B.V., a Netherlands-based ticket exchange service.
Seatwave joins The Echo Nest’s Rosetta Stone platform
The Echo Nest, a music intelligence application platform and Seatwave, a London-based online ticket marketplace, recently announced a partnership that will allow thousands of application developers to integrate ticketing buying features within their applications while also earning a portion of revenue from tickets sold via their apps.
Seatwave, Europe’s top online fan-to-fan ticket exchange for live events, debuted their new ticketing and event application programming interface (API) at Music Hack Day in San Francisco on Feb. 11–12. The API became part of The Echo Nest’s Rosetta Stone platform, along with a host of other APIs that help developers integrate music-related features within their apps.
Red Hot Chili Peppers turn to Seatwave to sell paperless tickets on European tour
Veteran rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers, whose upcoming European tour will only use restrictive paperless tickets, are apparently finding it difficult to move tickets and have turned to secondary ticket marketplace Seatwave to help with sales, despite claiming they want to keep tickets out of the secondary market.
According to the company, more than 5,700 tickets for the tour are listed for sale on its site, or approximately 200 for each of the 27 shows in 11 countries for which it lists tickets.
Seatwave reaches milestone with 1 millionth ticket sold
PRESS RELEASE: "Seatwave marks one million tickets sold in style"
London, ENG (Seatwave) 10 December 2010 – Seatwave, Europe's leading fan-to-fan ticket exchange, has reached the landmark of one million tickets being sold through the site. To mark the occasion, Seatwave identified the buyer of the millionth ticket and gave that lucky person two tickets a month to any event of their choice for a whole year. Keen concert-goer and jewelry model maker Simon Keeling from Brockley, London, was the one who struck gold when he bought a pair of Mystery Jet tickets.
Seatwave hires new general counsel
PRESS RELEASE: "Seatwave appoints Eleanor Krivicic as General Counsel"
LONDON, ENG (Seatwave) 09 February 2010 – Seatwave, Europe’s largest ticket marketplace (1.4 million unique visitors - comScore, July 2009), has appointed Eleanor Krivicic as General Counsel. The move comes at an important stage in Seatwave’s growth as the company reaches profitability and continues its expansion into Europe. In her role Krivicic will report to Joe Cohen, founder and CEO.
Seatwave scores big gain in European ticket sales in 2009
PRESS RELEASE: "Live entertainment an antidote to the country’s financial woes"
LONDON, ENG (Seatwave) 20 January 2010 – The third annual review of live entertainment ticket sales from Seatwave, Europe’s largest ticket marketplace (1.4 million unique visitors - comScore, July 2009), revealed that this was the year that Britons turned to live entertainment as an antidote to the country’s financial woes. With stadium music and comedy tours continuing to be the top attractions, the volume of live entertainment tickets being exchanged on the Seatwave site increased by 87% on 2008.
Seatwave reaches one million tickets on its exchange
PRESS RELEASE: "One million tickets for sale on Seatwave!"
LONDON, ENG (Seatwave) 6 October 2009 - One million tickets to events across Europe are now on sale on Seatwave, Europe’s leading fan-to-fan ticket exchange. The vast majority of tickets have been posted by new fans, evidence of the ever increasing popularity of the site. Seatwave launched in February 2007 and provides a marketplace for buyers and sellers of music, sports and theatre tickets. This milestone comes as Seatwave celebrates a revenue rise 2,203% in the past three years alone. The company which operates local businesses in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands has transformed the secondary ticketing industry and established itself as a trusted consumer brand.
Seatwave named one of UK's top tech and media companies
PRESS RELEASE: "Seatwave named number 1 Tech Media Invest Company for 2009"
LONDON, ENG (Seatwave) 7 September 2009 - Seatwave, Europe's leading fan-to-fan ticket exchange (1.5 million unique visitors - comScore, July 2009), has today been named the number one Tech Media 100 Company for 2009.
Seatwave reports continued strong sales
"Seatwave continues to drive down the cost of live entertainment"
LONDON, ENG (Seatwave) 20 July 2009 - Seatwave, Europe's #1 fan-to-fan ticket exchange, today announced continued strong growth for Q2 2009. This comes as fans rush to buy tickets in one of the most action-packed summers in sports and live entertainment history. Seatwave’s UK site experienced an 86 per cent growth on the same quarter in 2008, while its European exchanges witnessed staggering growth of 125 per cent for the same period.
Seatwave partners with Bauer Media for relaunch of Aloud.com
By Kelly McWilliams
German multimedia force Bauer Media recently relaunched its ticketing site, Aloud.com, and it has invited resale site Seatwave.com to take on the secondary ticketing piece of the venture.
Seatwave raises $17 million in new round of financing
"Seatwave raises $17 million"
London, ENG (Seatwave) June 2, 2009 - Seatwave, Europe’s largest fan-to-fan ticket exchange (comScore, April 2009), has announced it has raised $17 million in fourth round Series D funding led by Accel Partners. Accel Partners is joined by existing investors Fidelity Ventures, Atlas Venture, Mangrove Capital Partners and Adinvest. Sonali De Rycker, who helped to found the company while at Atlas Venture, returns to the Seatwave board as part of Accel’s investment.
Over the past three years, Seatwave has pioneered the European ticket exchange category and established itself as a trusted consumer brand in the live entertainment space. The company continues its core mission of providing safe and rationally priced tickets for fans of live music, sport, arts and a host of activities. Seatwave operates local businesses in the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands.
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