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Live Nation’s Latin American Adventure

Live Nation, the behemoth concert promoter, 360 deal signer, and venue owner has expanded their international presence through 2 strategic partnerships in Latin America. The new partnerships are with CIE in Mexico and T4F (Time for Fun) which is based out of Brazil. CIE is the third largest concert promotion company in the world. They [...]

Live Nation’s Numbers

Live Nation has released their second quarter sales figures and they are quite impressive. This is a company who just within this past quarter had a big executive leadership shake-up and many questions as to the validity of their business model. Well, let’s let these numbers speak for themselves: – Revenues – $1.16 billion – [...]

Live Nation Update

Live Nation has recently signed an additional two artists, Nickelback and Shakira (to your right). This comes on the cusp of the departure of the Chairman Michael Cohl. Some expected that Cohl left due to disagreements with CEO Michael Rapino about the strategies of these enormous 360 deals Live Nation was signing. Well, if that [...]

Live Nation’s Business Model

The record industry is closely monitoring new music businesses in search of the next business model. The major labels are investing in internet start-up, social networking sites, and streaming music sites. They are also closely watching Live Nation, who has just signed a number of 360 deals with artists such as Jay-Z, U2, and Madonna. [...]

Where’s the Money?

As financial data is released, this blog will follow the trends on where the money is going. We see the impact of consumer behavior in real time and we can formulate our ideas of where the industry will go in the future, but the complete picture really emerges when we can look into the financial [...]