29 Facts About StubHub

StubHub was founded in 2000 by Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr, both former Stanford Business School students and investment bankers.

StubHub was founded in San Francisco, United States in 2000 by Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr, both former Stanford Business School students and investment bankers.

In 2006, more than 100 New York Yankees season-ticket holders suspected of reselling their regular-season seats on StubHub received letters denying them the right to buy playoff tickets and barring them from buying season tickets for the 2007 season.

StubHub accused the Patriots of attempted monopolization, conspiracy to restrain trade, and unfair trade practices.

Staffing at StubHub had increased to 350 workers by the time of the sale.

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Eight months after the acquisition, StubHub reached an exclusive agreement with Major League Baseball .

In 2008, StubHub announced that music-related sale had seen the biggest growth and that music had become a "priority".

In July 2011, StubHub launched a new ticketing application, available on Microsoft Windows Phone, that makes it easier to buy tickets.

In 2013, StubHub created an application especially for the South by Southwest events in Texas that gave users the opportunity to buy a range of tickets to all of the different shows.

In 2015, StubHub sponsored a three-day lineup of bands at South by Southwest.

StubHub has supported major benefit events, such as 121212, the Concert for Sandy Relief, including a $1 million donation to the Robin Hood Relief Fund for those impacted by Hurricane Sandy.

In December 2012, it was reported that the New York Yankees, the Los Angeles Angels, and the Chicago Cubs had dropped StubHub and declined a new five-year deal, which MLB Advanced Media had signed.

In March 2013, the Yankees sued StubHub, claiming that the sale of their tickets violates New York scalping laws.

In 2014, StubHub announced the appointment of Jonah Freedman as its editor-in-chief, and has since announced plans to become a resource for finding and planning events.

StubHub has announced a plan to integrate with ESPN as part of the company's plans to offer more personalized content.

StubHub has announced a commitment to give $1 million of musical instruments to U S schools, in partnership with The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation.

In January 2022, it was reported that StubHub Holdings was considering an IPO and had filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

StubHub, described by The Wall Street Journal as "far and away the biggest player in the $6 billion market for reselling live-event tickets", is a way for ticket sellers to gain a profit, but unlike eBay, there is no auctioning involved.

In 2014, StubHub announced "all-in" pricing, presenting the total price of the ticket to the buyer including the fees, rather than adding the fees to the end.

However, in 2015 StubHub reverted to the old system of adding fees at the final stage of the transaction.

In early 2022, StubHub Holdings had offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Ireland, Switzerland, Taiwan, and China.

StubHub Holdings employed 650 full-time people, with a third of those employees at Viagogo.

In December 2015 StubHub had circa 120 partners; besides entertainment venues and sports teams, technology partners include Apple Inc, Spotify, BandPage, Amazon.

StubHub is active in college sports, with 35 college sponsorship deals as of April 2013, including the Universities of Texas, Michigan, and USC.

The agreement means that StubHub have become a brand presence on the websites of the tournaments and other forms of their marketing and communications.

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In May 2013, StubHub signed a three-year sponsorship deal with Jockey Club Racecourses to trade tickets on three of the racecourses in London; Sandown Park, Epsom Downs and Kempton Park.

One of StubHub's top sellers in the ticket reselling industry is a thirty-year-old man from Montreal, Canada, Julien Lavallee, who has been called a "superscalper".

StubHub now operates his multimillion-dollar "bulk reselling business" out of an office in Montreal.

The leaked documents included Lavallee's business records that showed that along with StubHub, he used Vivid Seats and Ticketmaster as "'main channels' to scalp his tickets".