The Scenario
You're an event logistics coordinator building a venue directory for an upcoming Southeast US touring circuit. You have 25 theater and arena names in column A — a mix of well-known venues and smaller regional rooms. You need city, state, address, capacity, and parking info filled in for each one so the production team can start evaluating load-in logistics.
The sheet has been sitting half-empty for two days. You've been filling it in between other tasks, Googling each venue individually and cross-checking multiple sources because venue websites don't always have current capacity figures. You're at row 11 of 25 and the production team lead is asking if the directory is ready.
The bad version:
- Search each venue name on Google, find the venue's official site, and look for a capacity figure — often located in a press section or not listed at all.
- Cross-check with Ticketmaster's own venue page to verify the address and see if parking info is surfaced anywhere.
- Manually enter the data into the sheet row by row, maintaining consistent formatting across 25 rows without a template.
Fourteen venues to go. The production team needs this to plan equipment routing. Every hour the sheet sits incomplete is an hour the routing conversation can't start.
The Easy Way: One Prompt in SheetXAI
SheetXAI is an AI agent that lives inside your Google Sheet. It reads venue names from column A and calls Ticketmaster's venue data for each one, writing address, city, state, and contact details into adjacent columns without you opening a single browser tab.
Search Ticketmaster for each venue in column A and write the venue ID, full address, city, state, and box office phone number into columns B through F.
What You Get
- Column B: Ticketmaster venue ID — useful for follow-on event lookups at each location.
- Column C: full street address as Ticketmaster has it on record.
- Columns D and E: city and state.
- Column F: box office phone number where Ticketmaster has it on file.
- Rows where no Ticketmaster match is found are left with a blank column B rather than silently populated with approximate data.
What If the Data Is Not Quite Ready
Some venue names in column A use informal names or abbreviations the venue doesn't use officially
For each venue in column A, search Ticketmaster for a match. Write the official Ticketmaster venue name into column B alongside the venue ID in column C, so I can compare what I have in column A against what Ticketmaster calls the venue.
You only need city, state, and postal code for the routing tool — the rest is extra
For each venue name in column A, look up the venue on Ticketmaster and write the city, state, and postal code into columns B, C, and D.
Rows 1 through 11 already have data and you only need to fill in rows 12 through 25
For each row where column B is blank, search Ticketmaster for the venue name in column A and write venue ID, full address, city, state, and box office number into columns B through F. Leave rows that already have data in column B unchanged.
You need a complete directory plus a flag for any venues Ticketmaster doesn't recognize
Search Ticketmaster for each venue name in column A and write venue ID, address, city, state, and box office phone into columns B through F. In column G, write "VERIFIED" for rows that returned a match and "MANUAL REVIEW NEEDED" for rows where no Ticketmaster record was found.
Hand the production team a directory where the gaps are labeled, not hidden. They can route around the unknowns while you track down the missing venues separately.
Try It
Get the 7-day free trial of SheetXAI and open your venue directory sheet with theater and arena names in column A, then ask it to look up the first five on Ticketmaster. Once the address formatting looks right, run it across all 25. See also: checking upcoming events per venue ID once your directory is complete, so the production team knows which rooms are already busy in your target window.