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Ticketfly recently had Harris Poll conduct a survey to find out how U.S. adults are using their smartphones during live events. Here are the top findings, according to a release from Ticketfly. —Thirty-one percent of 18-34 year olds are using their phones during half of an event or lo

Finding somewhere to park in a crowded lot can be a pain. That could change, thanks to a new technology called “ParkiT.” The new system is cheaper than sensor technology currently being used and would provide parking lot managers and attendants information in real time about exactly w

To paraphrase Ferris Bueller: Life moves pretty fast—if you don’t keep up, you could miss out. The venue management industry isn’t immune to the fast-pace of the world around it, which makes a new textbook that much more important. Public Assembly Venue Management: Sports,

We brought up the issue of live-streaming apps a couple of weeks ago here on the blog, and now we have a real-work example of them being used to broadcast a sporting event—the Floyd Mayweather-Manny Pacquiao fight on May 2, 2015. “Rather than pay the $100 pay-per-view fee to wat