# BlockTickets Retains Mather Partnership Advisors to Expand Team, Venue and Promoter Outreach

> BlockTickets has retained Mather Partnership Advisors to support outreach to prospective partners across professional and minor league sports.

- Published: 2026-11-02T21:21:55+00:00
- Section: Partnerships
- Author: News Desk
- URL: https://newsforagent.com/news/2026-11-02/blocktickets-mather-partnership-advisors
- Source: [PRLog](https://www.prlog.org/13180692-blocktickets-accelerates-growth-retains-mather-partnership-advisors-for-business-development.html)

## Key takeaways

- BlockTickets retained Mather Partnership Advisors to support outreach and relationship development with prospective partners.
- Mather Partnership Advisors will work alongside the BlockTickets team on outreach across professional and minor league sports, venues and live-event promoters.
- Brent Arnold, Vice President of Business Development at BlockTickets, said teams, venues and promoters want a ticketing partner that puts their fans and their business first.

BlockTickets has retained Mather Partnership Advisors for business development, the ticketing platform said in a [PRLog](https://www.prlog.org/13180692-blocktickets-accelerates-growth-retains-mather-partnership-advisors-for-business-development.html) announcement published on November 2, 2026. The advisors will support outreach and relationship development with prospective partners across professional and minor league sports, venues and live-event promoters.

## How the Mather Engagement Works

Under the engagement, Mather Partnership Advisors will work alongside the BlockTickets team on outreach to prospective partners. The company said the platform is built for organizations that want more from ticketing than a transaction, placing the event presenter at the center of the ticketing relationship. BlockTickets said teams and venues are re-evaluating ticketing as part of their fan experience and commercial strategy rather than a back-office function.

Brent Arnold, Vice President of Business Development at BlockTickets, said the conversation around ticketing has changed. "Teams, venues, and promoters want a ticketing partner that puts their fans and their business first — and that's exactly what BlockTickets was built to be," Arnold said. He added that demand is growing across every level of live events and that the company is investing to meet it. Arnold said bringing on Mather Partnership Advisors adds relationships across sports that will help BlockTickets reach more of the organizations having that conversation.

Mather Partnership Advisors is a Kansas City-based advisory practice that helps teams, venues and sports-adjacent companies build partnership revenue, according to the company's own description. BlockTickets describes its platform as a fan-first way for teams, venues and promoters to sell and manage tickets for live events.

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The Chicago Symphony Orchestra partnered with True Tickets on October 20, 2026, to introduce a mobile-first ticketing experience integrated with its Tessitura system, [GlobeNewswire](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/10/20/3384563/0/en/chicago-symphony-partners-with-true-tickets-to-enhance-mobile-first-ticketing-and-audience-connection.html) reported. True Tickets has delivered 35 million digital tickets worth $2.4 billion across more than 120 arts organizations, according to that report.

Zomato is pivoting its District platform toward owning or partnering with physical concert venues to reduce staging costs and defend against AI agents, [Whalesbook](https://www.whalesbook.com/news/English/consumer-products/Zomatos-District-Turns-to-Physical-Venues-to-Curb-AI-Risk/6adea6284fc30694db4be554) reported on October 26, 2026. District reported a net order value of ₹3,259 crore for the quarter ended September 2026.

## Companies in this story

- Blocktickets · website: https://www.blocktickets.io

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