Bitcoin Ads for Beyoncé, Jay-Z Concert Go Live This Week
The Chicago Sun-Times is set to launch the first bitcoin-enabled QR code advertisements this week. The ads, which will first appear on 2nd July, allow readers to make direct purchases of tickets for an upcoming concert featuring famed hip-hop power couple Beyoncé and Jay-Z. The Chicago-based newspaper teamed up with Coinbase and Blockchain on the digital currency initiative. Ticket broker Golden Coast Tickets will be handling the actual purchases. The Sun-Times first began integrating bitcoin in February. At the time, it was the first major US newspaper to begin accepting bitcoin payments.....
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Budweiser is teaming up with Coinbase on a bitcoin payments initiative that will go live this summer during the Budweiser Made In America (BMIA) Concert Series. The partnership will be on display during the tour's upcoming event at The Complex in Salt Lake City on 12th June. There, concert-goers will have the opportunity to spend bitcoin at participating concession stands, and Coinbase and Budweiser will promote the event by distributing US$10 worth of bitcoin to eligible concert-goers. The BMIA Concert Series began in April in Madison, Wisconsin, and runs through the end of August with....
PRESS RELEASE. BTC Miami has released a concert line-up packed full of world-class musical talent for its Sound Money Fest experience. Talented acts in the likes of the all-encompassing musician, producer and world-famous club DJ Steve Aoki and American-born hip-hop artist Logic, will entertain concert-goers with live music on the final day of BTC 2022 at the Miami Beach Convention Center. Also on the bill is globally-revered progressive House and Dance music DJ DeadMau5. The Canadian-born DJ has been a long-time Bitcoin advocate. The famous musician, known to his closest fans by his real....
The Budweiser brand is already popular with Americans and the partnership has been deliberately done to capitalize from this. Coinbase has partnered up with American beer company Budweiser in an attempt to reach a new demographic. The new initiative is specifically in conjunction with Budweiser Made in America (BMIA) Concerts to give concert attendees $10 worth of Bitcoin for free. The Budweiser Made in America festival is held annually at over thirty cities building up to two big events taking place on the weekend of 30th and the 31st of August in LA and Philadelphia. Founded by artist....
Coinbase today announced a partnership with the Budweiser Made in America (BMIA) Concert Series that will give out $10 worth of free bitcoin to eligible concert-goers. Budweiser's Made in America Concert Series takes place throughout the summer in over thirty cities in a lead-up to two major events happening on the weekend of August 30-31 in Los Angeles in Philadelphia. All eligible concert-goers are able to opt-in to receive the free $10 worth of bitcoin using Coinbase. So what makes one eligible or ineligible? According to Coinbase, the individual must be registered for at least one of....
Lily Allen, English singer and songwriter, recently tweeted to more than 5.8 million Twitter followers about Bitcoin. She is one of the biggest celebrities in the world to mention the crypto-currency. In January 2014, Allen admitted her regret at denying “hundreds of thousands of bitcoin” in exchange for an online concert. She was asked to live stream a concert to the virtual world called Second Life. The unknown organizer offered her bitcoin. She hashtagged herself an “idiot.” The pop singer tweeted: “About five years ago someone asked me to stream a gig live for hundreds of thousNds of....