Analysis Blog ‘Two years ago, things were bad for grassroots music venues. Now, we are at the cliff edge.’ CEO of UK's Music Venues Trust says: "We need companies and high net worth individuals to step up now."
News Live Nation donates $5m to emergency COVID-19 fund for concert crews – and could donate another $5m Michael Rapino, CEO and President of Live Nation, and his family have personally donated $250,000 to the Crew Nation fund
News Paradigm set to lay off over 100 staff – more than a seventh of its workforce – as Coronavirus live music lockdown hurts agencies Paradigm CEO Sam Gores hopes redundancies will be "temporary"
News UK’s CODA Agency to merge into Paradigm "We look forward to the next chapter as one global company, driven by agents who share an unwavering focus on the artists we represent and the art they create."
Analysis Live music business slumps in first half of 2019, with world’s Top 100 tours down $752m year-on-year MBW analysis of Pollstar data shows significant decline in blockbuster concert revenue worldwide
Interviews ‘I was raised to fight for the underdog.’ Corrie Christopher Martin – a senior figure at Paradigm Talent Agency – on her career and the industry today
News UK indie festival trade body reveals more Congress speakers AIF conference to take place in Sheffield for the first time
News UK’s competition authority begins legal proceedings against ticket resale site Viagogo Action welcomed by FanFair Alliance
News Global concert sales hit a record high in the first half of 2018… but so did average ticket prices Top 50 best-selling tours of the first half of 2018 generated a record $2.21 billion
Interviews ‘Touts are crafty and aggressive – but we know this technology is very secure.’ AXS CEO Bryan Perez on the firm's new marketplace in the UK, which caps ticket resale profiteering at 10%
Analysis News Spotify generated $40m+ in ticket sales last year. Now, it’s accelerating its presence in live music. A clear business opportunity is opening up for Spotify in the live events space...
News AXS Marketplace arrives in UK offering capped ticket resale platform 'Flash Tickets' tech deployed to fight counterfeiting
Interviews DEAG at 40: ‘We’re like an armada, ploughing through the sea.’ CMO Detlef Kornett talks us through the history of a live music giant
News Sound City Korea applications open for 2018 This is the fourth year that Sound City will take artists to MU:CON and Zandari Festa with Arts Council England backing
News Tixserve partners with Ireland’s largest indie ticket provider tickets.ie tickets.ie processes 2.7 million tickets annually for entertainment events across Ireland including sports, arts, music and theatre