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Stadium Tech Report

January 22nd, 2025

Editorial

Checkout-free stores are doing well — in stadiums, anyway

Contrary to what you might have read elsewhere on the internet this week, checkout-free shopping technology is alive and well and growing -- at least in the stadium concession-stand segment of the marketplace. Since we did our big checkout-free market count back in October, the number of stadium-specific stores has grown from 141 stores to 180 stores, a net gain...

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Listen in as NASCAR talks about its extensive speedway Wi-Fi deployments

How did NASCAR, Verizon and Extreme Networks team up to bring full fan-facing Wi-Fi 6 networks to numerous NASCAR speedways? Listen in to a recording of our recent webinar to hear the full story and get some insight on what it takes to bring high-definition wireless to some of the largest public venues out there. You can find the recording...

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Here’s why Stadium Tech Report is adding sponsor posts to our news feed

Stadium Tech Report's main "news feed" -- our chronological list of published posts -- will now include submissions from our sponsor partners, starting today. There are several reasons behind this innovation, but believe me when I say it's all being done mainly for the benefit of our readers. Yes, it's also a business decision. But I would like to take...

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Breaking down the 2023 Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey results with Verizon’s Kevan Akers

While I always enjoy telling specific stories about a successful venue technology deployment, one of the more interesting things we do here every year at Stadium Tech Report is our annual Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey -- where we ask our community of stadium technology professionals to tell us what's going on at their venues, what their objectives and concerns are,...

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Budget concerns are top of mind for venues heading into 2024

It's always fun to drill down into the replies to specific questions we asked in our yearly Stadium Connectivity Outlook survey. The one we are highlighting here, about what venue tech operators' top concerns are for the next 12 months, provides a pretty clear answer: Budgets, and all the input that influences them, are top of mind for the stadium...

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