What does the future of AI ticket search look like?
IQ hears from leading ticketers that have moved early to establish AI integrations about how they see the future of discovery shaping up
News By Ciaran Donnelly | 29 October 2026
AI-based conversational ticket discovery could remain a “modest” portion of the ticketing landscape unless it finds a way to “inspire” event choices, leading ticketers say.
This year a number of larger ticketing firms have unveiled integration partnerships with Large Language Model (LLM) tools, including SeatGeek’s partnership with ChatGPT, and Ticketmaster’s tie-ups with Google Gemini and ChatGPT.
Months on from these integrations, Ticketmaster EVP of distributed commerce Dan Armstrong tells IQ the applications are, for now, mostly limited to…