My805tix

For over 33 years New Times has been gathering and promoting a variety of events in SLO County (over 20 years for the Sun in No. Santa Barbara County). We’ve created a huge readership of over that look each week to see what and where events are happening locally. When you couple that with the tens of thousands that follow our websites and social media outlets, that’s over viewers. Yet, when users found what to do within our calendars, we sent them off to fend for themselves to find tickets for the events. Often the experience was challenging and in some cases impossible. National services are available but often offer minimal logistical and definitely no marketing support to the organizations that use them. Furthermore, any fees from tickets sold using the national services (Eventbrite, Brown Paper TIckets, etc.) were pulling dollars out of our local communities and into their pockets. Our partner in this venture, MyNorthMedia, is also a long-time media outlet who had a huge readership. They decided a few years ago to create their own ticketing solution to meet the needs of all the organizations already using their outlet for promoting their events. Creating a one-stop hub for all of their clients not only made it easier for the organizations and their events more visible, but any fees were managed locally and kept within the community. It was hugely successful so they decided to offer the solution to select media companies around the country, including us. So far they have successfully implemented similar platforms in over 40 regional areas around the country. We’re excited to announce that My805Tix is now a local ticketing platform that will be the regional hub for all events from Santa Ynez to San Simeon.