Gametime Goes Deep, Adding College Football to Mobile Platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 19, 2015) - Gametime, the leader in mobile on-demand sports ticketing, today announced its expansion into college football by adding tickets to its popular app for more than 50 of the nation's top programs. Having successfully piloted mobile delivery last year with Stanford and the University of California-Berkeley, Gametime will dramatically scale its offering for college football fans.

Keeping with the goal of decreasing friction in access to live sports, Gametime will add some of the nation's top programs for 2015 including Ohio State, TCU, Baylor, Michigan State, USC, LSU, Wisconsin, Oregon, Arizona State and many more. They will be accompanied by a bevy of neutral site showcase games throughout the season beginning on Sept 5th with Alabama vs. Wisconsin (Dallas), Louisville vs. Auburn (Atlanta) and Texas A&M vs. Arizona State (Houston).

With the surprising reality that college football attendance is in fact decreasing, Gametime expects its innovative mobile delivery platform to help bring more casual fans to games with easier access to seats than ever before. According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, college football attendance has dropped as much as seven percent from 2009.¹ NCAA attendance figures showed the FBS (Bowl Subdivision) realized its lowest per game average attendance since 2003. Gametime wants to help change that reality by offering a ticket buying solution for students and fans alike, that is the simplest on the market, surfacing the best last-minute deals even after the game has started.

"We're always looking for new ways to help people get off the couch and have more fun. Increasing access to college football is a natural next step and will appeal to our demographic that's younger than the traditional sports consumer." said Brad Griffith, Founder and CEO of Gametime. "Football games are an important part of the college experience. The sense of community and school pride felt at these games is long remembered and we can't wait to make it easier to have these experiences."

The Gametime app is designed for the fast growing population of mobile savvy consumers. With curated listings, panoramic in-game seat views, two-tap purchasing and mobile delivery, Gametime makes attending college football games more accessible. In just two years Gametime has amassed hundreds of thousands of users shopping for tickets in 40 metro areas across North America.

About Gametime
Gametime offers the leading sports ticketing app for last minute, on-demand tickets to sporting events for over 150 teams in 40 markets throughout the U.S. and Canada. Gametime reimagined the ticket purchase experience for mobile in 2012 to democratize access, bringing speed, convenience and value to sports fans everywhere. Gametime curates the best seat values, presenting them using beautiful in game panoramic seat views coupled with a two-tap purchase process and mobile delivery that eliminates printing. Featured as a top-rated app on iOS, Android and Apple Watch stores, Gametime believes the world is better when people get off the couch and into something fun. As Sporting News reported, "Gametime is connecting millennial sports fans to the experiences and events they want to attend...instantly." Connect with Gametime on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

¹ The Wall Street Journal analysis was based on stadium turnstile records from about 50 public colleges with top-division football teams.