NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 23, 2026--
StubHub (NYSE: STUB), the world's leading live event marketplace today announced an integration that lets fans discover and browse live events inside Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant. The integration connects Claude users to StubHub's global catalog of live events with up-to-the-minute pricing and seat-level availability.
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The launch builds on StubHub's ChatGPT integration and makes StubHub the only major ticketing platform fans can access across multiple leading AI assistants. StubHub is building a distribution strategy designed to put live events within reach of any AI-powered conversation.
"We built StubHub to be where fans discover live events, and these integrations ensure our marketplace reaches fans wherever they are," said Nayaab Islam, President & Chief Product Officer at StubHub. "Consumer behavior is driving a new era in ticket discovery, with fans increasingly turning to conversation, not just menus and filters, to find live events. With our breadth of catalog and global reach, we're uniquely positioned to be the default destination for live events, wherever fans choose to start their search."
How It Works
The integration is available through Claude's connectors. When a user mentions StubHub, Claude will pull up the StubHub marketplace. Ask Claude something like "Look on StubHub. What concerts are happening in New York this Friday?" The integration returns current inventory with actual pricing, not a list of links to sort through on your own.
The conversation builds on itself. A fan might start broad, then get specific:
Each follow-up refines the results without starting over. When the right tickets surface, Claude sends the fan directly to StubHub to complete the purchase.
What Fans Get
The integration goes beyond what a web search can do. Fans interact with StubHub's live marketplace data, including current seat maps, pricing trends, and section-level recommendations. Every purchase is backed by StubHub's FanProtect Guarantee.
A Multi-Platform AI Strategy
StubHub's approach is different from a typical brand integration as it embeds its marketplace directly into conversational platforms. The Claude launch is the second step in a broader roadway towards being the default platform to discover live events.
About StubHub
StubHub is a leading global ticketing marketplace for live events. Through StubHub in North America and viagogo internationally, StubHub services customers in over 200 countries and territories, supporting over 30 languages and accepting payments in over 45 currencies – from sports to music, comedy to dance, festivals to theater. StubHub offers a safe and convenient way to buy or sell tickets to live events across the world for memorable live experiences.
StubHub Launches on Claude
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities say a former North Carolina law enforcement officer planned to kill Black people in a mass shooting at a major New Orleans festival but was arrested at a Florida hotel with a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Authorities in several states did not name the event, but the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, commonly known as Jazz Fest, runs from Thursday through May 3. The gathering attracted about 460,000 people last year, organizers said.
Christopher Gillum of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, was wanted for “terroristic threats,” the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office in Florida posted online Thursday. Federal authorities told the sheriff's office that Gillum, who is white, was in the Florida Panhandle “heading to do a mass shooting at a large festival in Louisiana.” The FBI in New Orleans said it's working on the investigation with law enforcement across the three states.
The Okaloosa sheriff’s office said Gillum was arrested without incident Wednesday night at a hotel in the city of Destin, and posted a photo of him being led away in handcuffs. Deputies recovered a handgun and about 200 rounds of ammunition from the hotel room, the statement said.
Gillum was arrested as a fugitive from justice and will be extradited to Louisiana to face charges there, the sheriff’s office said. It was not immediately known if he had a lawyer. The Associated Press left a message at phone numbers listed for him.
Gillum’s family reported him missing on Tuesday and he has a history of self-harm, according to Lt. Clint Lyons of the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina. Gillum’s family told law enforcement he had a gun and had “expressed recent threats to harm ‘Black people,’” according to a bulletin from police in Burlington, North Carolina.
Lyons said Gillum left the state before his agency could prepare the paperwork to involuntarily commit him to psychiatric treatment. Lyons said there were no criminal grounds to detain Gillum despite his comments about Black people “because there was no victim,” however the agency decided it needed to spread the word about him to other departments.
Gillum was located and stopped by law enforcement in Oklaloosa County on Wednesday, according to Lyons and the Burlington police bulletin.
However, he “did not present any grounds for involuntary commitment or criminal charges” and was allowed to continue on his way, the bulletin stated. Gillum told officers he was “enroute to New Orleans,” the report added.
Okaloosa deputies were initially asked to make a “welfare check” on him Wednesday morning but they didn't know he'd been making violent threats, sheriff spokesperson Michele Nicholson said. Later that day, after the sheriff's office learned Gillum was being investigated, deputies surveilled him until an arrest warrant arrived from Louisiana, she added.
“At this time, there are no known direct threats to any festivals in Louisiana,” State Police spokesperson Trooper Danny Berrincha said.
Gillum served as a sworn police officer in Chapel Hill from 2004 until his resignation in 2019, town spokesperson Alex Carrasquillo said.
He worked as a police officer in the coastal town of Carolina Beach from October 2019 until his resignation the following October, town administrative services officer Sheila Nicholson said. Gillum became a detention officer in October 2023 with the Orange County, North Carolina, sheriff’s office and left in July 2024, spokesperson Alicia L. Stemper said.
He returned the Chapel Hill police force as a non-sworn employee in 2024 before leaving again by the end of the year, Carrasquillo said. He was then rehired as an Orange County sheriff's deputy in January 2025 but resigned that September, she said.
Mustian reported from Natchitoches, Louisiana, and McCormack from Concord, New Hampshire. Associated Press writer Allen G. Breed in Wake Forest, North Carolina, contributed.
A New Orleans Police Department officer monitors a crowd on the first day of the 2026 New Orleans Jazz Heritage Festival in New Orleans on Thursday, April 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Stephen Smith)
This booking photo provided by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, April 23, 2026, shows Christopher Gillum. (Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
This photo provided by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office on Thursday, April 23, 2026, shows a handgun and ammunition recovered from Christopher Gillum's room after he was arrested at a hotel in Destin, Fla. (Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
This photo provided by the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office shows Christopher Gillum being arrested Wednesday, April 22, 2026, at a hotel in Destin, Fla. (Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office via AP)
