Would you pay a subscription payment every month if it meant you to simpler entry to live performance tickets?
That’s the concept behind festivalPass, an Austin startup that has created a subscription market the place members pays a month-to-month payment to have entry to tickets to live shows, sporting occasions and different gatherings.
FestivalPass, which debuted in Could, is designed to scale back the hassles and prices shoppers face when shopping for tickets for stay occasions, in keeping with its founders, Ed Vincent and Stephan de Bernede.
The corporate’s platform presents tickets to 1000’s occasions together with music, way of life, movie, artwork, sports activities, meals and wine, and tech and innovation. The platform additionally consists of discounted rooms at over 600,000 motels that may be booked the identical approach.
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FestivalPass members subscribe to one in every of three membership tiers, that are priced at $19, $49 and $99 per 30 days. Larger tiers have decrease prices for tickets and members additionally accumulate credit by way of the plans that can be utilized to pay for tickets and resort rooms.
Vincent, the corporate’s CEO, stated festivalPass tickets include no extra charges, which signifies that even with the month-to-month subscription cost, that ends in decrease costs total.
“No matter value you see on our web site, and while you use it for an occasion, that is the value you pay at checkout,” Vincent stated. “I really feel there was at all times this lack of transparency, the place you go on to many websites and it says $100 for the ticket and by the point you take a look at at $150 and I believe it is a very irritating expertise.”
Vincent, who moved to Austin from New York to construct the corporate, stated Austin’s standing as a hub for each stay leisure and know-how makes it the proper spot to construct out the corporate and develop the platform. .
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Whereas the corporate is launching in Austin, the platform presents tickets to occasions all around the United States and lists resort rooms globally. As soon as it grows extra in the US, the corporate additionally plans to function occasion tickets globally.
“Since we’re based mostly right here in Austin, we will repeatedly develop and market and do attention-grabbing cool issues right here in Austin so we are able to mannequin out the successes we’ve n Austin in different cities alongside the best way,” Vincent stated. “However immediately anyone within the nation can join and so they’ll discover occasions in any metropolis they stay in.”
Vincent stated the stay leisure trade is ripe for disruption. He pointed to Moviepass, a subscription serve that allowed individuals to see as many films as they wished in a month for a set payment. Moviepass shut down in 2019, however Vincent stated it confirmed the demand for some form of subscription-based service for stay leisure.
“We wished to construct a membership subscription through which individuals can turn into a member of this group, constructed across the passions that they actually love, whether or not it is music, whether or not it is movie, whether or not it is meals and wine, whether or not it is sports activities, and truly nonetheless give them the worth of buying a ticket to the factor they love to do, but in addition do it inside a group to allow them to begin interacting with fellow stay occasion followers,” Vincent stated.
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FestivalPass plans to barter perks with occasion venue house owners that can be added over time. Past ticket gross sales, the platform additionally recommends occasions and offers members early entry to ticket purchases and early entry to buy nonfungible tokens, collectible digital belongings you should purchase and promote, from artists.
The corporate is also embracing rising applied sciences akin to blockchain and NFTs because it builds out its platform. Customers could make purchases with cryptocurrency, a digital asset that can be utilized to make on-line funds. Its additionally launching a “lifetime founder” NFT providing that offers purchasers a lifetime founder membership on the platform that offers them about $1,200 price of credit every year and quarterly occasions.
FOX 7 Austin’s Dennis de la Pena and producer Julian Martinez talk about the College Football Playoff semifinal matchup between the Texas Longhorns and the Ohio State Buckeyes!
ARLINGTON, Texas – The Texas Longhorns and Ohio State Buckeyes will face off in Arlington, Texas on Friday in the College Football Playoff semifinal.
The winner of the game between Texas (13-2) and Ohio State (12-2) will go on to play Notre Dame in the national championship.
Neither quarterback in this game is a stranger to playing in Arlington.
Ohio State quarterback Will Howard and Ewers both won Big 12 championships the last time they played at AT&T Stadium.
Texas won the Big 12 in its last season in the conference last year. Howard transferred to Ohio State from Kansas State. He led the Wildcats to a Big 12 championship win over then-undefeated TCU two years ago.
The best matchup of the game could be Texas All-American senior cornerback Jahdae Barron vs. standout Buckeyes freshman receiver Jeremiah Smith. Barron won the Thorpe Award, which is given to the nation’s top defensive back. But Barron gives up four inches and 15 pounds to Smith, the second-team All-American who may be the most electric freshman in the country. Smith has 70 receptions for 1,224 yards and 14 touchdowns. Smith has four touchdowns in these playoffs.
Predictions are made by the Data Skrive betting model.
FOX Sports Analyst Joel Klatt went with Ohio State in his prediction for the Cotton Bowl. Klatt says the Buckeyes are playing the best football in the country right now and the fact that the game is being played in Texas is keeping the line (Texas +6) lower than it should be.
The winner of the Longhorns and Buckeyes game will take on Notre Dame in the championship game.
The game will be held at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, where the Longhorns played in the SEC Championship and against Arizona State in the College football playoff.
The Source: Information in this article comes from the College Football Playoff, the Associated Press and FOX Sports.
TEXAS — The 89th Texas Legislature will start on Jan. 14 with 181 lawmakers.
The House of Representatives’ organization will be managed by Texas Secretary of State Jane Nelson, who will also select temporary officers. The Secretary leads until a Speaker of the House is elected.
Secretary Nelson announced that Walter Fisher and Sharon Carter were appointed as parliamentarians for the House’s session inauguration.
“This is a duo with extensive parliamentary knowledge and the experience to guide the opening of the 89th Legislative Session,” said Secretary Nelson. “With the support of these individuals, we will make sure the organizing of the House is a fair, transparent and orderly process.”
The 150 members of the Texas House of Representatives and the 31 members of the Texas Senate will be sworn in as the 89th Legislature on Tuesday. The legislature will meet until June 2.
You are able to watch the Senate proceedings on opening day at this website.
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AUSTIN (KXAN) — KXAN is keeping track of the number of homicides in Austin.
As of Jan. 9, two homicides have been reported thus far in 2025.
Last year, 70 homicides were reported, down from 75 in 2023 and 71 in 2022. A record 88 homicides were reported in 2021.
The charts below will be updated as we learn new information. Scroll down for a map of where each homicide occurred.
The chart below shows how the number of homicides reported in recent years changed through the year.
Below is a map showing where homicides occurred in 2025. The map is interactive, so clicking on or hovering over a dot will reveal information about that incident. You can also click on a month in the top left to show only homicides that occurred during that month.
The chart below shows the number of homicides reported each month in 2025.
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