Resnicow also touches on the new seed fund by Live Nation Labs, which is looking to push innovation broadly in the music space, ranging from discovery, ticketing, social media, photography, and video.
Ticketmaster's new canvas app brings the entire event discovery and ticket purchase flow within Facebook.
Madrid-based Ticketea offers an events discovery and ticketing platform that lets people find and book tickets for a variety of live experiences — including festivals, concerts and performing arts shows.
Early Gametime investor Jeff Mallett, a part-owner of the San Francisco Giants and former Yahoo executive, said he expects the startup to use its new funding for hiring, and to build new event discovery features for ticket buyers, and tools for ticket suppliers.
The owner of the car was in for a bout of that stomach-dropping feeling that accompanies the discovery of a ticket.
"We look forward to sharing an array of mobile and social media innovations with their customer base to enhance the movie discovery, planning and ticket buying experience".
Songkick, the concert discovery app and ticketing company (after it merged with white-label artist-to-fan ticket seller CrowdSurge), has raised a further $10 million in funding from previous backer Access Industries, owner of WMG.
On Sunday the fair will sponsor "Discovery Day," during which ticketed guests can bring up to five of their own treasures for appraisal.
"If you think about a typical ticketing company, discovery is done off-platform — like a Songkick or Bandsintown," notes Canty.
Brazilian investigators have told the BBC that their discovery of a huge ticketing scam is just the tip of the iceberg.
