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Touchdown, payments edition
PayPal is teaming up with the Seattle Seahawks in a new partnership that makes it the team’s Official Fan-to-Fan Payments provider and the Exclusive Digital Ticket Payment Processing Partner. Translation: if you’re buying, selling, or moving money around in Seahawks-land, PayPal wants a seat at the table.
Why investors should care
This isn’t some giant transformational deal with a flashy revenue number attached. But it is the kind of everyday-usage partnership PayPal likes: visible, consumer-facing, and tied to a real transaction flow rather than just logo placement on a banner somewhere.
In other words, it’s less “look at our new ad” and more “please keep using our rails.” If PayPal can keep stitching itself into sports, commerce, and ticketing ecosystems, that helps reinforce the brand as more than a digital wallet you forgot to update after 2021.
The bigger picture
Partnerships like this usually matter in the aggregate. One NFL team won’t rewrite the PayPal story by itself, but deals like this can help with:
- brand visibility in a high-engagement environment
- more frequent payment usage around tickets and fan commerce
- reinforcing PayPal’s push to stay relevant in digital checkout and peer-to-peer payments
Big picture: it’s a solid reminder that PayPal is still hunting for places where money changes hands — and sports fans are apparently still very good at doing that.