Archive for December, 2008
The Rising Tide of Live 2.0
This news would be shocking to you if you just accepted the conventional wisdom that consumers aren’t buying things. Here’s an excerpt: “The concert business grossed just under $4 billion worldwide in 2008, the most ever for a year and up almost 13 percent over last year, according to Billboard magazine.‘Overall, it’s been a pretty [...]
Breaking News: Kirov Ballet Wins 2008 Nutty!
The Kirov Ballet performance of The Nutcracker Suite at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles has won the 2008 Goldstar National Nutcracker Award (“Nutty”). More to come! (Full disclosure, yes, this is a Goldstar thing.) Share and Enjoy:
A Steep Price to Pay for Content
Here’s the key piece of a story about Live Nation’s 360 Degree deal with U2: “Live Nation had guaranteed U2 would receive $25 million for 1.6 million shares as a part of a 12-year deal signed in March. The market value of the shares Live Nation bought back was about $6.3 million, based on the [...]
Arena Football, We Hardly Knew Ye
Today, the Arena Football League announced that it’s cancelling the 2009 season. Sure, there are plenty of Arena Football jokes to go around, but the league is the second-longest operating football league in history (22 years) and had a lot of support from the NFL. Now, owners (like Jon Bon Jovi, John Elway, and NFL [...]
The Future is a Niche Market, contd.
When I was a kid (not that long ago, sorta), Roller Derby was in its waning days as mainstream television fare. It never made the networks, but every local station had straightfaced broadcasts of tough, serious men and REALLY tough women skating around the circle and whomping each other. I never understood the point-scoring system, [...]
Live 2.0: The Content Creation Story
One part of the Live 2.0 phenomenon that I tend to talk about less, but which is extremely powerful is the affect that the computer and networking revolution have had on the CREATION of content. This recap of a recent study is a mixed bag, but one unmistakable positive is that more and more content [...]
Look this up at beside-the-point.com
Two local papers share an arts critic to save money. Research we’ve done says people value a robust collection of user reviews of shows over the most prestigious art critic in the most prestigious paper in their town by 30 to 1. It’s no knock on the critic. It’s that they’re JUST ONE PERSON. In [...]
The Perils of Being Live 1.0
Here’s Marni on Shuffle’s take on the closing of American Musical Theater of San Jose. The story is that after 70 years in business, this major regional theatre just closed shop. First, let me say that I appreciate what AMTSJ did as an organization (and in the spirit of full disclosure, they were a Goldstar [...]
Panos Nails It-The Future is a Niche Market
I don’t think I could be any more completely in agreement with this post by Panos Panay about the flawed grandeur of the Live Nation 360 degree deals. Here’s a snippet: “My problem however, is that these much ballyhooed 360 deals make no sense as Live Nation is structuring them. They look to the past, [...]
Will There Be a Baseball Recession?
It’s possible, but reading The LA Times’ Bill Shaikin’s article on the topic won’t get you any closer to knowing the answer. First, absurdly, he draws a parallel between the Big Three bosses private jetting to Washington to beg for taxpayer money with Major League Baseball holding its winter meetings in a Vegas casino: “As [...]
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