live-entertainment
(12)The Company That Exists When the Microphone Turns On
A thin corporate record says graphic design. The useful evidence says something warmer: Dustin and Judy, a neighborhood bar, and the small machinery that gets ordinary people to sing in public.
The Talent Manager Who Stopped Chasing the Algorithm
Outshine Talent made an early bet on TikTok. Seven years later, its more interesting wager is that a creator's career should survive the platform that made it possible.
The Small Agency That Found an Arena Inside a Community
The Round Table Group built its advantage in the distance between a demographic and a community. Its method is simple to describe, difficult to fake: listen locally, connect the channels, and give the audience a reason to recruit itself.
Lucky 7 Casino started in a trailer. It built reasons to stay.
On California’s far northern coast, a Tolowa-owned casino grew from 60 slot machines into a place to eat, sleep, gather, and fill the tank. Its most useful business lesson happens beyond the gaming floor.
Etix wants the whole night, from ticket to T-shirt
The North Carolina ticketing company built its business around the needs of venues. Now its ambitions extend from finding the audience to ringing up the merchandise.
The CNE Lost Two Summers. Then It Built a $40.5 Million Comeback in 18 Days.
Canada’s biggest annual fair nearly disappeared when two summers went dark. Its recovery offers a useful lesson in building a temporary city that people, vendors and sponsors all feel they cannot miss.
The Opry’s Second Act Is a Business Model
A century-old radio show became the anchor for a portfolio of venues, bars, festivals and media. Opry Entertainment Group’s advantage is not simply owning famous rooms - it is knowing how to keep their history commercially alive.
The 366-Foot Screen That Ate Las Vegas
One company runs the most expensive room ever built in Las Vegas and the cable channel that carries the Knicks. Here is how Sphere Entertainment turned a glowing orb into a business.
Netflix
Netflix escaped the red-envelope era by learning to replace its own best idea. Now it is turning a streaming subscription into a wider entertainment system - one built from stories, software, live moments, games and advertising.
Live Nation Entertainment
It books the band, owns the room, prints the ticket and sells the beer sponsorship. Inside the $23-billion machine that moves 150 million concertgoers a year - and the antitrust fight over whether one company should do all of that.
Potawatomi Casino Hotel
Milwaukee's biggest bet began as a bingo hall. Three decades later, Potawatomi has turned gaming, hospitality and a $190 million reinvention into an engine for tribal self-determination and local opportunity.
LA Clippers
For decades, the Clippers rented a stage in someone else’s story. Intuit Dome gives the franchise its own building, its own data and a much bigger business to run.