1-Night
April 26th, 2011 at 4:00 pm by David FarrarClaire Rogers at Stuff has an article on 1 Night:
Start-up 1-Night has launched a service that takes the “paper pain” out of ticketing, letting people present their iPhone or a customer card to enter concerts and events.
Co-founder Josh Dry said people who purchased tickets through its website would have the information stored in their 1-Night account – which was synched with their customer card or could be accessed through their iPhone.
“There’s no waiting for a courier or printing on to paper. You can’t lose your ticket because it’s all stored on your account.
I had a catch up with 1 Night a few weeks ago where they briefed me on their business model, and I have to say I was really impressed. As someone who is always losing tickets, I love the idea of not just buying all my tickets online at the one site, but more importantly being able to use my mobile phone as an entry ticket. You never have to worry about lost tickets again, you can buy at the last minute and you get access to an event much quicker.
But their iPhone app goes beyond just ticketing. One can use it to scan in barcodes (using your camera) in ads in magazines (or even posters) and it will purchase the tickets for you (subject to confirmation).
A great example of Kiwi ingenuity. I hope they do well, and also welcome the competition they bring to Tictetek and Red Tickets. At the moment they are servicing just the music industry but I reckon there is great potential to expand to other areas.
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April 26th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Be good if you get it in to aussie… ordering tickets there is a biatch. $20 charge to get them over here.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 4:41 pm
Why just iPhone?
Android has overtaken all other phone operating systems in terms of numbers.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
No it hasn’t. It has more activations.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 5:03 pm
While there is no doubt that Android is overtaking or has overtaken iOS worldwide and in most major markets, it sadly isn’t the case in NZ. This is probably because of the lack of Android handsets supported by the networks, Vodafone in particular, although they do seem to have gotten better recently. One can only hope that the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation both get released here when they are released worldwide in the next month or so.
As an Android fan it used to bother me every time I saw a story like this that focussed on the iPhone but I think I’ve got over it. I’m sure Josh Dry and his ilk will have no problems in producing a decent Android app for 1-Night if and when either the NZ market demands it or a foray overseas requires it.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
I wonder if there are any patent/IP issues around their stuff? Best of luck to them, somebody needs to sort out ticketing in NZ, Ticket Master and Ticketek are painful relics.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 5:11 pm
Guys, Android numbers are crap. It’s based on whatever android is used in. It can be tablets, netbooks, phones, whatever. Activations could mean any product. Android hasn’t taken over iOS in any market.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Even if iPhones had a 100% market share I wouldn’t go near one, so it appears I wont be using this either.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 6:05 pm
You don’t need an iphone to use 1night, its just an added option.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 6:58 pm
I’m not sure it’s “Kiwi Ingenuity”, there seem to be a number of ticketing apps for the Iphone. Maybe it’s the first for the Kiwi market, but it’s not a new idea.
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 8:16 pm
Problem is that venues seem to have ‘tied’ ticketing agencies, unless you are running a Rugby World Cup when you can demand a ‘clean’ venue and get it. If a promoter wants to have something at St James, they have to use Ticketek – end of story.
It was worse in the old days, you either had to write a letter or present yourself at the ticket counter at John Courts in Auckland or DIC in Wellington (older people might know what they were).
Vote:April 26th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Red Tickets hasn’t existed for years! NZ Post offloaded it to some other outfit, who merged it into their business. No word on whether NZ Post actually got paid, I think they may have had to pay to get just to get rid of it.
Vote:April 27th, 2011 at 7:05 am
Good on them.
I hope they make Ticketek suffer.
Vote:April 27th, 2011 at 8:10 am
@infused
Its a matter of time. Google now has nearly twice the quarterly global share of Apple in the smartphone market:
http://www.canalys.com/pr/2011/r2011013.html
In the year 2009-2010 google experienced a 615% growth rate.
Keep in mind this is for shipments, but at this rate it wont take long for Android to become the #1 OS.
Vote:April 27th, 2011 at 11:39 am
Hey all, iPhone for now but we are in development of an Android app. Will have this out soon for android users to check out. And yes thanks @MikeE the app is only an added feature of 1-Night; our main point of difference lies in our 1-Night Card, a reloadable, reusable Eftpos style card that stores all your tickets and scans you in. The app is simply a reflection of the card.
Vote:Thanks for your comments, we will continue to innovate and compete in the NZ Ticketing Market to make purchasing, storing and entering Ticketed events easier.
April 27th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Farrer gets excited over IT stuff. But keeps losing his printed tickets. So it’s really just a matter of what Farrer is interested in.
Vote:My self, while spending a reasonable amount of the day connected electronically just cannot manage to muster up any interest at all in IT things and processes. And certainly find it not exciting.
It’s just another tool – like a pencil. Useful but boring.
So yes I can manage to keep my printed tickets and no I can’t keep organised using IT. I constantly mess that up.
If I had to rely on my phone for ticketing – I would love the guy who invents printed tickets.
Android versus iphone. Yawn.