Summer’s just around the corner, and we can’t imagine a better complement for the summer concert season than a brand spankin’ new concert discovery app. Live Nation is thrilled to unveil a treasure trove of live music goods in true social networking style. After private beta testing with some of our most social fans, we discovered  that fans enjoy seeing what shows their friends are hitting, competing for points against each other and cashing in on rewards. And now, we have an app for that!

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Our brand new Concert Calendar Facebook® app features official concert listings (but of course), social recommendations and fun gaming features including music-related badges, a point system a leaderboard to keep track and the best part, real-world rewards like Concert Cash® will be up for grabs. Concert Cash can be used towards thousands of Live Nation items, from concert tickets to band T-shirts to signed merchandise. All to help fans better enjoy the sweet connectivity and nostalgia of live shows that just can’t be beat!

The public beta version of Concert Calendar is ready for the digital enjoyment and feedback of all music fans. Here is TechCrunch’s review of our app.  We want to know what you think, so leave your feedback here. Your feedback is crucial as it helps us continue to deliver dynamic social features and ways to keep you in the know when it comes to engaging in your ultimate concert planning experience. Now, let’s bring on the summer heat!  Thanks for being a fan!

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We have worked hard in the last couple of years to launch a number of ground-breaking innovations to help you discover events and make ticket purchasing as social and seamless as possible. Our ticketing app for Facebook®, mobile app, Facebook tagging in our interactive seat maps and acquisition of Setlist.fm are some of the features on our highlight reel. While we were working on those, we didn’t forget about our mainstay, Ticketmaster.com.

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A lot of the fans who land on our home page proceed immediately to search box at the top of the page and type in an artist team or venue name. We have recently added two features that will help you search much more efficiently – predictive search and supporting act display.

Predictive search allows fans to find what they are searching for more quickly and easily by suggesting popular artists and venues as fans types their search terms. Fans can then choose a suggestion without having to type the entire term. This will help with potential misspellings and incomplete search terms. When you select one of the suggestions a more targeted set of search results are returned, this helps you get to the event page faster.

The order of suggestions is based on a combination of lexical proximity and recent page views & tickets sales conducted on Ticketmaster.com. This ensures that the most relevant artists and venues are suggested prominently, while our very long tail of smaller artists and venues are still accessible – something that has always been challenging, given the hundreds of thousands of live-events offered on our site, and the wide variations in the way fans enter for artists (“Florence + the Machine” vs. “Florence & the Machine” vs. “Florence and the Machine”).

With supporting act display you can now find the opening band and see the full list of performers at larger festivals on Ticketmaster.com. Additionally, fans can learn more about the artist, read user-reviews of previous shows, and see their other upcoming concert dates by clicking any of the artists’ names to view their individual page.

We are gathering feedback on fans’ reaction to these and we continue to work on further enhancements within the live-event search & discovery paths. Let us know what you think and thank you for being a fan!

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We’ve been leading the way in building cool social products to help people get the most out of live events. So we’re excited about our latest social product, Ticketmaster’s Ticketing App on Facebook. We’re still blushing, as Tech Crunch deemed our app as most impressive of the night during a Facebook event earlier this year. Even our friends at Facebook are talking about us.

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The app is another option for you to learn about upcoming shows and purchase tickets on Facebook, where you are already spending time (it’s OK, we spend a lot of time on Facebook too).

One of the coolest features in this new product is that the store will recommend upcoming shows to you based on what you listen to through online music services – like Spotify, Rdio, iHeartRadio and others. We’re tapping into the Open Graph to make your experiences all about you. So log in, install the app, grab your friends and go see something live!

We’re going to keep innovating and building cool social experiences to help you get the most out of live events and make them even more amazing.

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We’ve just launched our Ticketmaster app for iPhone®! You can download the free app from the: App Store.

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This app will let you browse events and purchase tickets in real time from wherever you are. If you have your iPhone location services turned on, you can choose to have the app suggest upcoming local shows. It scans your library of music and makes recommendations based on relevant shows in your area. You can further personalize by using more than 40 filters.

We’ll be making a bunch of enhancements to it over the coming year, but we wanted to get the first version into your hands as soon as possible, because we know how much you love live events! There’s much more to come, so let us know what you think so far, we want your feedback so we can build the best experience for you.

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