While the concert giant has faced mounting losses in the pandemic, it has already booked twice as many shows for 2022 as it did in 2019, executives say
As the live music industry weighs its post-pandemic future, Live Nation and Veeps will outfit venues including the Wiltern, the Fillmore, and House of Blues with livestreaming tech
Live Nation hosted 40,000 concerts in 2019. How will it get back to that number — and what else is in store for the concert giant in the post-pandemic future?
Most large-scale concerts and tours in the U.S. cannot return until 2022. "You can't do Swiss-cheese routing. If it's got holes in it because certain states haven't opened up, it's not going to work," says one live music exec
Revenue was down 92% for Live Nation's fourth quarter, but stocks are trading higher than before the pandemic began
"We have vast resources that, if fully utilized, could provide invaluable mechanisms in our country’s vaccine distribution," reads letter to Biden administration
Good Charlotte's Joel Madden, who co-founded Veeps in 2017, says the livestreaming company explored deals with several firms in the venture-capital and tech realms
"We haven't been convinced that it's effective from a safety standpoint. People can get infected in the last 48 hours. People can get false negatives," says Bryan Perez, CEO of the AEG-owned ticketing company
These road warriors were planning on a huge year. Seven months into the pandemic, they’re struggling to get by, dealing with crippling mental health issues, and contemplating new careers
Live Nation lost about $320 million in the tumultuous quarter
