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TicketCity is an American ticket broker and online marketplace headquartered in Austin, Texas. They buy and sell tickets to live events including sports, concerts, and theatre. The company was founded by Randy Cohen in 1990. They started out with four employees and one computer in a small office at Dobie Center. Today, TicketCity employs more than forty personnel and occupies an office building in central Austin.
Randy Cohen, the founder and Chief Energizing Officer, started selling tickets on the secondary market in 1988 while a student at the University of Texas at Austin. In March 1990, Cohen founded TicketCity and continues in the role of owner and CEO. More recently he has ventured into other areas including speaking engagements at local events and writing a business book titled "Ticket to the Limit".
TicketCity and TicketCity Sports Travel have formal relationships with professional teams, college athletic programs, championship events and NCAA conferences. In addition, in 2011 they became the title sponsor of the TicketCity Bowl and the TicketCity Legends Classic. The 2011 TicketCity Bowl featured the Northwestern Wildcats and the Texas Tech Red Raiders. TicketCity continued their sponsorship of the TicketCity Bowl in 2012, and the 2012 TicketCity Bowl featured a matchup between Penn State and Houston. In 2014, it was announced that TicketCity would take over as the title sponsor of the Cactus Bowl. The 2015 TicketCity Cactus Bowl was played on January 2, 2015 in Tempe, Arizona.
- NFL: San Francisco 49ers
- NCAA: Army Black Knights, Arizona State Sun Devils, Baylor Bears, California Golden Bears, Cincinnati Bearcats, Colorado Buffalos, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, Oklahoma State Cowboys, Mississippi State Bulldogs, Rice Owls, South Florida Bulls, Vanderbilt Commodores, Washington State Cougars
- NCAA Conferences: Pac-12 Conference, Ohio Valley Conference
- Bowl Games: TicketCity Cactus Bowl, TicketCity Bowl, Las Vegas Bowl, BBVA Compass Bowl, Hawai'i Bowl, Beef 'O' Brady's Bowl, New Mexico Bowl, Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl, Texas Bowl
TicketCity's website (www.ticketcity.com) launched in 1996. On August 8, 1998 TicketCity released the first fully functioning e-commerce website in the ticketing industry. The site allowed consumers to purchase tickets online for the first time. TicketCity's website has received several major face lifts to make it more interactive and SEO competitive, including a major addition in 2001 that integrated TicketCity's proprietary Real Time Ticketing software, enabling users to buy inventory in confidence of ticket availability. It also received a makeover in July 2011 which included new features such as predictive text and interactive venue maps. The latest updates came in early 2014 with an overhaul of the color scheme, format and update to the event page listings to provide increased interactivity between the ticket listings and the interactive maps
In addition to the website, TicketCity heralds themselves as a personal service and they launched an ad campaign in 2011 promoting just this. TicketCity positions itself as the kinder, gentler event ticket provider relative to the Ticketmasters and StubHubs of the world.
TicketCity joined forces with College Game Day Host Chris Fowler in May 2014 making him the official TicketCity Brand Ambassador.
TicketCity has been a Better Business Bureau accredited business since 1996 and maintains an A+ rating.