America Online and Tickets.com Announce Strategic Event Ticketing Alliance.Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers DULLES, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 2001 Tickets.com Joins AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Box Office to Offer Consumers Increased Convenience and Greater Access to Live Events Across the Globe America Online See AOL. , Inc., the world's leading interactive services company, and Tickets.com, a leading ticketing solutions provider for live events, today announced a strategic alliance that provides consumers with access to an expanded inventory of event tickets available through the AOL Box Office, a one-stop shop One-Stop Shop A company or a location that offers a multitude of services to a client or a customer. The idea is to provide convenient and efficient service and also to create the opportunity for the company to sell more products to clients and customers. for event ticketing. The addition of Tickets.com's services makes AOL Box Office, with premiere partner Ticketmaster, the most comprehensive online ticketing and information service for entertainment events around the world. Through the multi-year agreement, Tickets.com's event ticketing services will be available to users of many America Online, Inc. brands through the AOL Box Office, which offers consumers an extensive inventory of tickets to concerts, theater and sporting events, performing arts, movies and more. In addition, America Online will provide select Tickets.com Service and Licensee clients with the opportunity to receive both local and national promotional support for specific events throughout flagship AOL service and local brands. AOL Box Office, through its premiere agreement with Ticketmaster, its movie ticket offering through Moviefone, and now its new alliance with Tickets.com, offers consumers easy online ticket purchasing for more than 40,000 featured events at more than 6,000 venues. With properties that deliver both local and national information, America Online will provide exposure for Tickets.com client events, as well as for the Tickets.com brand. AOL Box Office can be accessed through many of America Online's interactive brands, including the AOL service and local brands, including Moviefone and digitalcity.com. As a special benefit for AOL members, in cooperation with certain Tickets.com clients, AOL Box Office will offer exclusive pre-sale tickets and premium offers to select Tickets.com entertainment events before they can be purchased by the general public. AOL Box Office customers will find detailed information about Tickets.com client events by category, venue or date, and can purchase tickets seamlessly through a co-branded site. "Consumers have already embraced AOL Box Office, having purchased tens of thousands of tickets online since the launch of the preview site in August. Exclusive pre-sales events, which are a special feature of AOL Box Office, have been extremely successful - the pre-sale of Britney Spears' fall tour sold over two million dollars worth of tickets alone," said Jay Rappaport, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Entertainment at America Online. "The addition of Tickets.com's top-tier inventory greatly enhances the product's offerings, helping to provide our customers with a one stop shop for all their ticketing needs in one easy to use, convenient site." "As one of the two largest players in the ticketing industry, we are proud to offer our clients the opportunity to promote their events before the world's largest online audience," said W. Thomas Gimple, Tickets.com's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and Co-Chairman. "Tickets.com's partnership with AOL is indicative of our mission to bring the highest level of exposure and promotional support to our clients, while offering consumers ease of use and easy access to a wide spectrum of live entertainment event tickets." Tickets.com sells millions of tickets a year. By offering access to the more than 31 million AOL members and the tens of millions of additional users of America Online's Web-based brands, Tickets.com will significantly increase its clients' online distribution. About America Online, Inc. America Online, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of AOL Time Warner, Inc. Based in Dulles, Virginia Dulles, Virginia is an unincorporated census-designated place located in Loudoun County, Virginia, part of the Washington Metropolitan Area. The headquarters of AOL, Orbital Sciences Corporation and ODIN technologies and the former headquarters of MCI Inc. are located in Dulles. , America Online is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet technologies and e-commerce services. About Tickets.com Tickets.com is a leading live event business-to-business ticketing solutions provider. The company facilitates the sale of tickets by enabling venues and entertainment organizations with proprietary and cutting edge software, retail outlets retail outlet n → punto de venta retail outlet n → point m de vente retail outlet retail n → , call centers and interactive voice response (IVR (Interactive Voice Response) An automated telephone information system that speaks to the caller with a combination of fixed voice menus and data extracted from databases in real time. ) systems. Tickets.com develops private label Ticketing Gateways(SM) to enable live entertainment organizations with e-commerce distribution platforms. The company also sells tickets directly to consumers at http://www.tickets.com, providing tickets and information on virtually all events and entertainment organizations, as well as offering related products and services. Tickets.com's automated ticketing solutions are used by thousands of entertainment organizations such as leading performing arts centers A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , professional sports The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. organizations and various stadiums and arenas in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and Latin America Latin America, the Spanish-speaking, Portuguese-speaking, and French-speaking countries (except Canada) of North America, South America, Central America, and the West Indies. . Tickets.com is the official ticketing supplier to the 2002 Olympic Winter Games
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