Stubhub news and trends

Texas Attorney General Investigates StubHub Over World Cup Ticket Cancellations

July 03, 2026
World Cup payments
StubHub Taps ChatGPT to Help Customers Find Tickets
Artificial Intelligence // December 22, 2025

Ticketing platform StubHub has launched an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company said the partnership, announced Monday (Dec. 22), makes Stubhub one of the first businesses of its kind to launch an app on ChatGPT with a discovery experience and lets fans replace “tab-switching and...

StubHub IPO Tests Market as Ticketmaster Faces FTC Probe
Retail // September 16, 2025

StubHub is aiming to raise as much as $851 million in a New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday (Sept. 17), according to a recent Bloomberg report.  The company is seeking to reinvent itself from a resale marketplace into a direct ticketing player, even as...

StubHub Sets $851 Million Target With Relaunched IPO
IPO // September 08, 2025

Ticket reseller StubHub says it aims to raise up to $851 million when it goes public. That figure would give the company a valuation of as much as $9.2 billion, StubHub said in a filing Monday (Sept. 8). According to a news release, the company has launched the roadshow for...

StubHub Updates IPO Filing Submitted in March
IPO // August 11, 2025

StubHub reportedly plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in September. The online ticketing company is looking to start its IPO roadshow after Labor Day (Sept. 1) and make its public debut later that month, CNBC reported Monday (Aug. 11), citing unnamed sources. Reached by...

Interviews & Exclusives
Top News In Payments: Bank Closings Hit Rural Areas; Kaspersky Highlights Rise Of Fake Notifications

November 26, 2019
In today’s top payments news, more than half of the 3,114 counties in the United States lost bank branches from 2012 to 2017. Also, cybersecurity company Kaspersky is putting a spotlight on the increase in fake browser notifications this year. And the pre-orders are coming in for Tesla’s so-called “cybertruck,” days after shattered glass embarrassed the automaker […]

EBay’s CEO Resignation A Pyrrhic Activist Victory?

September 26, 2019
In the “week of the CEO resignation,” eBay’s Devin Wenig is out, amid clashes with activist investors and the board. Amid slowing sales and rougher competition from Amazon and others,...

Inside TickPick’s Instant Payments Play

July 22, 2019
Instant payments are becoming crucial to consumers participating in the platform economy. These consumers want to be sure that they can both send and receive money seconds after they’ve completed...

eBay Points To Payments As Key Q4 Highlight

January 30, 2019
In Q4, eBay saw deceleration into the end of the year, in part, on macro headwinds internationally as buyer volumes slowed, but still logged growth in active buyers, as well...

Quick Reads
Texas Attorney General Investigates StubHub Over World Cup Ticket Cancellations

July 03, 2026
The Texas Office of the Attorney General (OAG) is investigating reports that ticket marketplace StubHub is cancelling or failing to provide World Cup tickets that fans have purchased. The OAG has received reports that StubHub cancelled tickets days or hours before the game’s kickoff, Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a Friday (July 3) press […]

StubHub Taps ChatGPT to Help Customers Find Tickets

December 22, 2025
Ticketing platform StubHub has launched an integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The company said the partnership, announced Monday (Dec. 22), makes Stubhub one of the first businesses of its kind to...

StubHub Sets $851 Million Target With Relaunched IPO

September 08, 2025
Ticket reseller StubHub says it aims to raise up to $851 million when it goes public. That figure would give the company a valuation of as much as $9.2 billion, StubHub said...

StubHub Updates IPO Filing Submitted in March

August 11, 2025
StubHub reportedly plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) in September. The online ticketing company is looking to start its IPO roadshow after Labor Day (Sept. 1) and make...