NEW TICKETING PLATFORM, AXS TICKETING,
FEATURING NEVER-BEFORE AVAILABLE,
FAN-FRIENDLY TECHNOLOGY LAUNCHES
AT THE JOINT AT HARD ROCK HOTEL & CASINO
Beginning today, The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino welcomes a new era of fan-friendly ticketing with the transitioning of the venue’s ticketing services to AXS Ticketing (pronounced access).
Tickets to all concerts at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will now be available at the Hard Rock Hotel Box Office, online at AXS.com or by calling 1-888-9-AXS-TIX.
Since launching in August 2011, AEG has already introduced the new platform at 47 venues, including STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and London’s The O2 arena, the world’s top-selling concert venue since 2007.
“We are very pleased to be partnering with one of the most innovative ticketing platforms in the market,” said Chas Smith, Vice President of Entertainment at Hard Rock Hotel. “We’re looking forward to sharing this technology with our customers.”
“From the beginning, our goal with AXS has been to challenge the inconvenient experience and conventional thinking that has dominated ticketing for decades,” said Bryan Perez, AEG’s president of digital, ticketing and media. “By continually focusing first on fans’ needs with products like AXS Invite and our virtual Waiting Room, we are changing the way tickets are sold all over the world, and we are excited to bring this new approach to The Joint, one of the top venues in the concert industry.”
Ground-breaking features of AXS Ticketing at launch include:
A social ticketing breakthrough, AXS Invite™, is a revolutionary new feature that will allow fans to reserve adjacent tickets for friends so they can all sit together. Once the seats are reserved, through a one-step invitation process, the initial purchaser can then invite his or her friends to buy the nearby seats via Facebook or email, eliminating the need for one purchaser to fund the entire transaction and helping fans more easily attend in groups.
A virtual AXS Waiting Room™ opens shortly before the public on-sale, giving fans greater transparency into the buying process by displaying real-time ticket pricing and availability information, as well as shortening transaction times by allowing fans to enter their payment details prior to general tickets going on sale. The Waiting Room™ also will allow venues to see the demand for tickets at any given time before and during the on-sale.
AXS features several improved ticketing options. Fans can go paperless with mobile ticketing. Creating easy, convenient access to events, mobile ticketing through AXS allows people to use their smartphones to get into an event. Additionally, with regards to fees, AXS will not charge a delivery fee to customers who print their event tickets at home.
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino’s other entertainment venues, Vinyl and Soundwaves, also will be on the AXS Ticketing platform.
For more information about AXS Ticketing or to purchase tickets for an event, fans can log on to AXS.com.
About AXS
Developed and operated by AEG, one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world, and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Anschutz Company, AXS is a new entertainment platform that also serves as AEG’s primary consumer brand. AXS provides fans the opportunity to purchase tickets directly from their favorite venues via a user-friendly ticketing interface. AXS serves all phases of the event life-cycle beyond just ticketing, through its consumer facing website, AXS.com and the AXS App, as well as its portfolio of investment companies, including Carbonhouse, a leading website developer for venues, Frontgate Ticketing, a festival oriented ticketing platform owned in partnership with C3 Presents, and Bypass, the venue industry’s leading supplier of cloud-based food and beverage point-of-sale systems. For more information on AXS, please visit AXS.com.
About The Joint The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas is a 4,000-person capacity venue that serves as a sophisticated, intimate and unparalleled entertainment destination. The Joint features seven Luxury Suites, a VIP Studio Level, state-of-the-art sound system, superior video system and a production package tailor-made for artist comfort. It has received numerous accolades including “Best Concert Venue” in Las Vegas Review – Journal’s “Best of Las Vegas” awards 2010 – 2013, “Best Music Venue” in 2012 and 2013 Las Vegas Weekly Awards, “No. 1 Hottest Club in America” award by Billboard Magazine in 2011 and 2013, “Best Live Music Venue in Las Vegas” by MetroWize.com in 2011, “Best New Major Concert Venue” at the 2010 Pollstar Awards, and “Best Live Music Venue” in AOL City’s Best 2010 awards. The Joint delivers unforgettable live music experiences with performances by both legendary and ground-breaking artists including Paul McCartney, The Killers, Bon Jovi, Kenny Chesney, Arcade Fire, Avenged Sevenfold, Rise Against, Paramore, Muse, Drake and No Doubt. The venue created the successful concept of rock ‘n’ roll residencies with Supernatural Santana: A Trip Through the Hits, Mötley Crüe in Sin City, Mötley Crüe invites you to an Intimate Evening in Hell, Guns N’ Roses Appetite for Democracy and Def Leppard VIVA Hysteria! as well as Tiësto In Concert, featuring the world’s No. 1 electronic DJ and producer Tiësto.
About AEG Live
AEG Live, the live-entertainment division of Los Angeles-based AEG, is dedicated to all aspects of live contemporary music performance. AEG Live is comprised of touring, festival, exhibition, broadcast, merchandise and special event divisions, fifteen regional offices and owns, operates or exclusively books thirty-five state-of-the-art venues. The current and recent concert tour roster includes artists such as Taylor Swift, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Usher, Carrie Underwood, Daughtry, Justin Bieber, Leonard Cohen, Wisin & Yandel, Kenny Chesney, P!nk, Enrique Iglesias and Paul McCartney. The company is also currently producing residency shows at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas including Celine Dion, Rod Stewart and Shania Twain and is the exclusive promoter at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas. AEG’s exhibition portfolio boasts the most successful exhibition of all time, Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, which has attracted more than 8 million visitors since 2005. AEG Live is also the largest producer of music festivals in North America from the critically acclaimed Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival to Stagecoach Country Music Festival and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. www.aeglive.com