ShareTweet It has been an interesting month in the entertainment industry. We saw Instragram sell for a billion dollars and the abrupt departure of Brian Dunn as CEO of Best Buy. What’s interesting isn’t Facebook’s need to spend so much money on Instagram, or Mr. Dunn’s personal conduct. It’s the fact that Facebook has a [...]
ShareTweet Dave Fortune, TMV’s live industry expert caught up with Ian Hogarth CEO of personalised concert alerts service Songkick to discuss the evolution of the music business marketplace… 1. Artists and investors might define Songkick as a ticket broker, data provider, content aggregator, or social network. How would you define the company? Wow, that’s a [...]
ShareTweet There are two things everyone in the music industry needs to embrace: a concert is all about the fans, and the fans the artist can see and hear set the tone for their performance. Accept this dictum and all is fine. Producing a concert is all about managing the complexities of fan-to-artist relations before, [...]
ShareTweet Imagine you’re on a conference call, and the senior exec on the other end is extolling the importance of cost cutting on all concert operation and production elements, especially for those shows losing money. You are told “feed them fucking Cornflakes for breakfast”. The directive is to cut costs wherever possible and refers to [...]
New TMV Columnist and ex Live Nation executive Dave Fortune spills the beans on why the concert industry is in decline…
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