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ComeTogether today announced its latest strategic partnership with Sportive Ways aimed at bringing blockchain technology for ticketing, NFT collectibles and NFT fan club memberships to sports entities.
ComeTogether will work with Sportive Ways to promote the concept of NFTs in the world of sports. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) enable sports teams to develop new revenue streams, increase fan engagement and create an ongoing royalty revenue stream. NFT ticketing can also be included in the solution to combine the topics of attendee management, fan engagement and secondary market control in a move that will solve several of the average fan’s pain points when attending sports events.
What is an NFT? An NFT provides digital ownership of assets. Created through blockchain, they are similar to a cryptocurrency. For collectors, an NFT is a digital representation of collectibles that entails uniqueness or digital scarcity.
SportiveWays has always taken a keen interest in suggesting modern solutions/services to the vast network of sports properties they work with and helping them to launch them when the time is right.
“Fan club NFTs are the next step in closer engagement to fans for all live events, rewarding their loyalty to favorite sports clubs and players,” said Lazaros Penteridis, CEO, ComeTogether.
Michalis Karagounis presents his new song entitled “Ksero Ti Thelei”. In collaboration with Chris Karr and Jo Lids for the music production, they are preparing for a strong comeback with this new release through Solid Grace Music.
“Kserw Ti Thelei” comes to life with the sensual and kinky tones created with the innovative style of the directing team of Bodega Visuals. In addition, Solid Grace Music is collaborating with Sugarfree to promote this campaign on TikTok and Instagram with the colors of this summer. Specifically, they created a community of influencers that became part of the song as well as the new Sugarfree collection in a way that can only be described as organic!
The campaign doesn’t stop here. In collaboration with artist Danny Hades, a collection of 6 unique 3D NFTs was created under the name “The Sphynx Society”. “The NFTs are available via the UniqTogether Marketplace. UniqTogether offers NFT solutions for the music industry that include fanclub NFTs, NFT collectibles and NFT ticketing solutions.” Apart from unique designs of the Sphynx cat, the utility also includes a percentage of the song’s revenue back to their owners. Notably, one of the NFT’s is owned by Chris Kogias, a Greek influencer that represented Greece as one of the top influencers of Greece in the Eurovision of 2022.
This is only the beginning, as Solid Grace aims to define new methods of interaction and promotion of music through the use of innovative contracts and technologies. Finally, “Ksero Ti Thelei” by Michalis Karagounis, Chris Karr, Jo Lids, has been released in all digital music stores on Monday, May 16th.
UniqTogether is a portfolio of NFT solutions to support live event revenue streams post event while building ongoing fan engagement
ComeTogether announced today a new addition to its family of apps – UniqTogether NFT Collectibles. Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) enable event organizers to develop new revenue streams, increase fan engagement and create an ongoing royalty revenue stream long after the event has taken place. Live events of any kind can benefit from NFT solutions – from music and sports to business and culture.
What is an NFT? An NFT provides digital ownership of assets. Created through blockchain, they are similar to a cryptocurrency. For collectors, an NFT is a digital representation of collectibles that entails uniqueness or digital scarcity. A football trading card is a great example to consider. The owner of the NFT would not possess the physical card. Their token represents their ownership (or partial ownership) of the item and entitles them to sell and profit from this card.
The new portfolio includes collectibles, event memories and fan clubs all as NFTs. Fan clubs can be developed for artists or sports properties to engage more closely with their fans or event organizers to provide added to value to their attendees. The utility of fan club NFTs can include blockchain ticketing, specialized pricing, membership perks and exclusive content. Learn more about our NFT portfolio here.
“Fan club NFTs are the next step in closer engagement to fans for all live events, rewarding their loyalty to favorite performing artists and sports players,” said Lazaros Penteridis, CEO, ComeTogether.
ComeTogether realizes that not everyone is a crypto-native, so we make it easy for everyone to buy/sell through our NFT marketplace. In addition to being able to trade in cryptocurrency (ETH), we also support fiat (Euro, USD, etc) currencies. In addition, we do not charge any Ethereum (gas) fees when issuing, redeeming and exchanging NFTs.
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Stavros is co-founder of ComeTogether. He holds a MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering and has 7 years of experience researching and developing Blockchain-based projects. By leveraging this experience he is architecting the Blockchain layer of ComeTogether’s solutions and also serves as a COO.
10 years bringing new tech to markets. Former cloud robotics software engineer. MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering. Having always been a music event enthusiast, I have had frustrating experiences due to ticket scalping and inflated prices. I take this problem personally. Having fell down the crypto rabbit hole since 2017, I was thrilled when I realized that NFT ticketing was the cure for this problem, which led to starting ComeTogether in 2018.
Provide NFT members with special perks that are only available to this group of individuals.
Create an ongoing target market for new offers to NFT members.
Continue to share updates and offers with NFT members long after the initial purchase.
Different levels of NFTs can be connected with different levels of access, rewards or content.
Owners of NFTs feel as though they are part of an exclusive group that can only be accessed via the NFT.
Superior audience insights vs legacy ticketing. Know who attended the event even if the ticket changes hands or in case of a group purchase. Use them to define more targeted marketing for future customer outreach.
Stathis co-founded ComeTogether in 2018, a startup providing NFTs with utilities. Nowadays, his main focus at ComeTogether is to build client/partnership relationships. In other words, he is creating awareness around NFT ticketing, memorabilia and memberships for live events. Stathis has a broad background from Finance to Computer science and web3. He pursed his master degrees at the University of Bristol, UK and then moved in France to work with Accenture as a Software engineer. He was awarded the best paper award in ‘1st Workshop on Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems (BlockSys 2018)’
Achilleas Kotsis, Chief Technology Officer, has 20 years of experience managing complex IT projects. He co-founded startup clickdelivery.gr in 2009, worked as CTO/COO and exited to Delivery Hero in 2016. He has recently joined ComeTogether in early summer of 2022.
Claudia is ComeTogether’s CMO, leading our strategy and content for external communications. She brings more than twenty years of B2B technology marketing leadership roles in telecommunications and IT networking and security organizations – startup to Fortune 500. Initially working with ComeTogether as a mentor and then joining the core leadership team. She works extensively in mentoring startup initiatives across many industries throughout Europe.
Our tickets are NFTs, meaning they can be resold as digital collectibles even after the event. Increase fan engagement and develop ongoing royalties from future resale.
Most importantly, you get a percentage of each resale. The ComeTogether app and organizer dashboard can support this.
Event organizers and ticketing providers using ComeTogether’s solution to provide better fan experience, as ticket fraud and scalping are prevented.
Incentive for fans to attend the event in order to redeem the NFTs. Gamification /contests (e.g. Scoring memory collectible, redeemable only for fans that predicted who scored correctly).
Provide the ability for notifications after events when needed in alignment with government regulations.
Digital ticketing and Covid-19 certificate, based on blockchain that cannot be forged due to a QR code that updates every 30 seconds.
Privacy and interoperability in compliance with the EU regulation for the Digital Green Certificate.
Medical data stored encrypted in decentralized storage or in the user’s own device.
Always know the Covid-19 status of individuals attending your event via Covid-19 certificates.
Users have full control over their medical data and they choose when and with who they share this data with.
Marketplace for selling NFT collectibles, also interoperable with existing marketplaces, meaning they can be exchanged there as well.
Create royalties out of each event, receive a commission on every NFT resale.
Geographically expand event addressable market worldwide as collectibles can be sold anywhere.
Resale rules can be set so that the event organizer profits from any resale of these NFT collectibles to not only enhance fan loyalty but open new revenue opportunities.