Tickets.com Partners With Thumbplay, Inc. to Offer Mobile Content

Tickets.com, a leading globalprovider of integrated ticketing solutions, has teamed with Thumbplay -- the#1 mobile entertainment provider in North America -- to offer music, videos,games and other content on http://www.tickets.com. The deal was announcedtoday and the content is available now.
Thumbplay's extensive and ever-growing entertainment library currentlyconsists of more than 100,000 pieces of licensed content. The partnershipallows Tickets.com to deliver innovative value-added features to its onlineconsumer base and to enhance their experience while visiting the site. Newusers who subscribe through http://www.tickets.com receive bonus downloadswith their new subscription.

"Our vision is to increasingly build out the Tickets.com website toencompass experiences in addition to ticket transactions," said Sheri Fink,online marketing manager, Tickets.com, "and we're especially excited aboutlaunching our partnership with Thumbplay. "Their commitment to leading themobile entertainment content industry with groundbreaking ideas andtechnologies and to providing a seamless customer experience is a mission thatwe share. I am certain that our individual ticket consumers, particularly theones making use of our technological innovations including Tickets@Phone(TM),will appreciate the ease of the service."

Thumbplay has maintained and grown its leadership position in the industryby providing its consumers with the best possible customer experience,including live, "24/7/365" customer service and a commitment to delivering thelargest catalog of entertainment possible. Thumbplay's "locker" service alsoallows users to automatically back-up and store purchased items.

Available features include; licensed music, video and gaming content fromsome of the world's largest entertainment companies, including EMI, Sony BMGMusic Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and SonyPictures Television, as well as several independent labels and artists andvideo game companies. Moreover, based on Thumbplay's reputation forexceptional customer care and technological innovation, MTV recently tappedthe company to power personalization content for the music giant's mobilecontent site.

About Tickets.com

Tickets.com is a leading provider of fully integrated event ticketingsolutions and services for thousands of top arts, entertainment, and sportsorganizations worldwide. Delivering the latest in ticketing technology,Tickets.com offers the advanced ProVenue(R) ticketing platform, which servesthe core of a comprehensive suite of integrated features, products, andservices that help clients enhance ticket sales, marketing efforts, andoverall customer experience. A privately held subsidiary of MLB AdvancedMedia, LP, since 2005, Tickets.com is headquartered in Costa Mesa, CA, and hasregional offices across the U.S. and around the world. The company also sellstickets directly to consumers at http://www.tickets.com.

About Thumbplay

Thumbplay, Inc. is defining the mobile entertainment experience for U.S.consumers. As the largest and fastest growing mobile entertainment contentdestination, Thumbplay gives consumers access to the broadest and deepestcatalog in the industry, spanning audio, video and gaming content from theleading music labels and artists, game publishers and media companies. Itsinnovative delivery and marketing platform makes it easy for users todiscover, manage, store and share mobile content online and on their wirelessdevices.

Headquartered in New York City, Thumbplay was founded in September 2004 byAre Traasdahl and Evan Schwartz. It is backed by Bain Capital Ventures,SoftBank Capital, i-Hatch Ventures, Redwood Partners, New EnterpriseAssociates, Meritech, Brookside Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital. Moreinformation can be found at http://www.thumbplay.com or athttp://m.thumbplay.com from a mobile phone.