Editorial

Want stadium connectivity insights? Take our survey – two weeks left to participate!

If you are looking for insights on stadium connectivity, there's no better way to learn than from your peers. And if you take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, you will receive a FULL SURVEY RESULTS REPORT, plus a white paper about the results, as a reward for your efforts. Plus, we'll send you a cool Stadium Tech Report hat! But...

August 10, 2021 by Paul Kapustka

How does your venue use technology to fix customer pain points? Tell us in our new survey!

When it comes to solving the pain points of a customer visit to a venue, technology has been a boon over the past few years, with new solutions making a fan's life easier for parking, ticketing, concessions and other potential customer-experience pitfalls. As we have found out in our profiles of stadium technology deployments, there are many ways available to...

August 4, 2021 by Paul Kapustka

Introducing: The Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey!

To all stadium, arena, ballpark, race track, concert-hall, convention-center, airport, casino and other large public venue owners, operators and administrators and deployers of connectivity technology: We need you!That is, we need you to take our Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey, a vehicle designed to find out "where we're at, and where we're going" when it comes to connectivity technology and the...

July 26, 2021 by Paul Kapustka

Column: Fans are returning. Is your venue really ready?

As spring turns into summer, it seems like every day there are new pieces of good news arriving. With more areas of the country seeing the pandemic in recession, more and more cities and states are giving venues permission to hold full-attendance events. For those of us in the events business as well as those who drive our business --...

July 20, 2021 by Paul Kapustka

University of Arizona taps 1337 Facilities to build ‘flexible’ esports center

After bursting onto the sporting mindset a few years ago with a huge bang, the idea of live-attendance "esports events," or fans watching competitive organized gaming, has had some problems living up to the hype. While projections of Super Bowl-sized crowds assembling to watch live gaming events haven't quite materialized yet, the undeniable popularity of competitive gaming, from casual play,...

July 10, 2021 by Paul Kapustka

Will stadiums embrace smart poles for parking lots?

If providing technology inside a stadium is an accepted idea, bringing more technology to the spaces just outside stadiums -- mainly parking lots -- is still a work in progress. While venues have tried different types of one-off integrations, like attaching Wi-Fi or cellular antennas to existing light poles, some new offerings are coalescing around the idea of a "smart...