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Cinemark Mobile
Ticketing

We partnered with Cinemark Hoyts starting in 2009 to build Latin America's first mobile movie ticketing apps across five different platforms — each a regional first. What began as a single Android app grew into a 15-year technology partnership.

BlackBerry Achievement Awards 2012
3rd place worldwide — Best Mobile App — Cines Hoyts Social Ticketing

The record

5 LATAM firsts across a single client relationship

1st
Android movie ticketing app in Argentina
Full movie selection, seat picker, and mobile payment — built before mobile ticketing was a standard expectation anywhere in the region.
1st
Windows Phone movie ticketing app in LATAM
Selected by Microsoft as part of their LATAM platform launch strategy — we built the Cinemark app as a flagship example for the ecosystem.
1st
BB10 ticketing app in LATAM
Full native BlackBerry 10 experience, a platform with significant penetration in the region at the time.
1st
SmartTV ticketing app in Argentina
Bringing the ticket purchase experience directly to the living room TV — ahead of the market by several years.
1st
Social ticketing app in the region
The "Cines Hoyts Social Ticketing" app allowed groups to coordinate seat selection socially — a concept that earned a worldwide BlackBerry award.

Long-term partnership

From paper tickets to fully digital ticketing — 2015

In 2015, six years into the relationship, we rebuilt and relaunched the Cinemark app to introduce fully digital ticketing, eliminating paper entirely. The revamped app handled the complete purchase flow — movie selection, showtime, seat picker, payment, and mobile QR code for entry — making it one of the most advanced ticketing experiences in LATAM at the time.

A client that trusts you with their first Android app in 2009 and then calls you back to rebuild the whole thing in 2015 — that's not a project relationship, it's a partnership. We take that seriously.

— Orugga engineering team

Technologies across the partnership

Native Android Native iOS Windows Phone BlackBerry 10 SmartTV Social APIs Mobile payments QR code ticketing Seat selection UI

Related experience

Our mobile ticketing and events experience extends beyond Cinemark. We built Latin America's first mobile ticketing app overall with Ticketek in 2008 — which won the Nokia Calling All Innovators award worldwide. We also developed an entertainment and events platform for Buenos Aires City Government covering personalized event recommendations and integrated ticketing for all shows.

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