Posts Tagged ‘Live entertainment’
Is the Power of Live Experiences Just a Trick?
Humans tend to mimic those around them, even without knowing it. Two people talking, assuming they like each other, tend to start mimicking each other’s mannerisms and turns of phrase within just a few minutes. Take the most banal song in the world and have 1000 people sing it slowly, like an anthem, and you [...]
Four Ways to Win the Mindshare Battle against Social Media
In the entire decade and a half I’ve been working in the Internet/WWW/Interactive biz, some people have speculated that all this crazy new technology is making everyone into hermits and shut-ins. You’ve heard the stories, and certainly some of them are true, though this article that I stumbled across today refutes and counters the line [...]
Live Music Needs A Tuneup To Entice The Audiences Of Tomorrow
This post originally appeared on Fast Company. Everybody, it seems, has a concert story. Whether it’s your mud-drenched weekend at Woodstock, camping out all night for Springsteen tickets, or being hypnotized by Skrillex’s beats, you’ve probably got a story too. The concert industry, though, has changed over the last 10 or 15 years because now [...]
Food, It’s What For Dinner
I’ve talked about this several times, but this is another piece of evidence to suggest how strong this trend is. BREAKING NEWS: People Really Like to Eat. What I mean by that is that food, as a sensory experience that goes beyond being a mere spectator, has become a more and more important part of [...]
11 for ’11: Things to Think About This Year
I wrote a piece that appeared in Ticketnews yesterday as guest commentary that you might want to read. In it, I voice my disappointment with not having a vacation home on the moon by the year 2011, but consoled myself by identifying a few (11 to be precise) issues you should be thinking about if [...]
Is Your Show Better Than a Meal at the Restaurant Next Door?
I talked the other day about whether or not Live Entertainment is an Industry (and my answer is ‘yes.’) Today, I’m asking how that industry is doing. For a long time, I’ve been saying that Live Entertainment is fundamentally healthy, and I still believe that. When I hear people bemoaning the business, I frequently ask [...]
Is Live Entertainment An Industry?
I might be the only person who refers to “live entertainment” as an industry. Most people I deal with professionally say that they are in the concert industry, professional sports, theatre, arts or something specific like that. So I’m the oddball when I say that Live Entertainment, meaning all of these diverse things, is an [...]
“Rally” Shows the Value of a Live Event
A lot of you probably watched and even went to the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear this weekend, and in truth, it looked like a pretty silly, fun event. Obviously, it got a lot of media play because its star, Jon Stewart, is supposedly the most influential man in show business. So if someone [...]
3 Things the NFL Can Teach the Rest of the Live Business
The grizzly bear has crawled out of its winter hibernation chamber as of tonight. All the creatures, great and small, in its domain must once again acknowledge its benevolent but certain rule. The National Football League is back in action tonight, with its first regular season game of the year. Many of my readers in [...]
Apple Going into the Live Business
This is a big deal. Apple filed a patent for a ticket selling protocol. Here’s a snippet from the Musically article I linked above: “The latest Apple patent to hint at its future music plans is for a service called Concert Ticket, which would take the form of an iPhone and desktop application. It’s described [...]
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