Will Facebook's Engagement Advertisements engage?

… a sponsored notification (marked as such) to all of a members' friends. So if someone used a Fandango app to buy tickets to see 'Pineapple Express,' Fandango and Sony Pictures could pay to tell all of their friends on Facebook about it." Frankly, I …

Ticket reseller Seatwave attracts $8m in funding

… Venture, Seatwave already has over 400,000 tickets for sale on the site, 20 … site in the top 15 of the ticketing website category, It has a strong competitor … last year by Eric Baker of US ticket reseller StubHub, recently acquired by eBay. …

Does on-demand content lead to on-demand advertising?

… , 12 months after it was initially broadcast, on a flight to New York, at 4am on a Sunday morning. Is your call-centre open? And can I still buy tickets for that Madonna concert in 2007? Matthew Finch’s Blog

Establishing customer trust - dos and don'ts

… the site, but slow loading pages are especially bad during the checkout process. For instance, when booking train tickets recently on the National Express website, after entering my card details, the payment confirmation page took five minutes to …

Is social media all bark and no bite?

… trip to Los Angeles for EconSM after Kelly received an email from Fast Company offering "a discount rate on EconSM 2008 tickets." Fast Company, of course, is home to Robert Scoble, Shel Israel and lots of hype. Already "obsessing about social media …

Closing the loop on web analytics

… approach can be. The client’s coach ticket booking website was an effective site … other pages. This issue in the ticket purchase funnel resulted in visitors who … to action and messaging through the ticket booking process and identify the winning …

Is the internet making us stupid?

… social calendars, emailing on Gmail and AOL, playing solitaire, doing homework for other classes, chatting on AIM, and buying tickets on Expedia (I made a list because of my disbelief). "From my perspective in the back of the room, …

Best Buy reaches out to Hispanics online

… re considering complex products, such as computers and home theater systems." I would point out that these are typically bigger ticket items so there is conceivably a noticeable impact on the bottom line if the availability of information in Spanish about …

Q&A: Mia Woodford of charity auction site Buy Once Give Twice

… items have you sold? We sold the big red chair from Big Brother for £6,600, while last week we sold a pair of tickets to the Champions League final in Moscow for £4,750. We have other items coming up in the summer, such as a Fender Stratocaster …

The Greater Fool Theory and Web 2.0

… I have observed that there are a few entrepreneurs who appear to consciously fool investors. Instead of hoping for a lottery ticket (i.e. a Google acquisition), they are content to jump from startup to startup raising money while living very comfortably …

The Web Week in Review - Special Music Edition

… Nation will control more of its concert ticket inventory, giving it more leverage. New York … almost guaranteed to mean one thing: ungodly ticket prices. In 2007, the cost of two … selling more than 10% of its own tickets, but at those prices, 10% adds …

Will Vertical Search threaten Google?

… -based search engine focused on airline tickets. The clever bit comes from … stock market to buying the tickets, which helps you decide the best time to buy a ticket. For example, if you are … you if current prices for tickets are rising or falling. A …

Note to Chris Anderson - lunch is never free

… when a film makes enough money to trickle down to them through multiple levels of "shareholders" higher on the totem pole. Ticket sales are the lifeblood for these investors and if Anderson believes they're going to be eager to invest when their risk is …

Q&A: PayOffline's Steve Berry on etail and trust

… at the outlet. That’s one of the next advances we are looking at. But there are all sorts of applications we could offer – ticketing for concerts, for example, or charitable giving. The real key, as we move up the food chain, is that if online …

Usability problems with National Express

… , and moving to the payments section, I was confronted by this: The red text tells me that there are no tickets available for the times I have selected and asks me to select another journey. This happened four times, forcing me to …