Live events are being held prisoner by COVID-19.
This is a big business, popular with fans and critical to the health of music-related industries but held hostage by something unforeseeable less than two months ago.
- There is a timeline for more normalcy in live events – notice I didn’t say return to complete normalcy.
- And there are alternatives to live events that are so alluring that we already have anecdotal information that they could be a big business born of this pandemic.
- When you see some of the potential startups from virus-proof concert “spacesuits” to compelling virtual concerts, you’ll see that the music business is never down and out but always disrupted and innovating.
Recent Posts
- Animosity Toward Radio CEOs Growing
- What’s Causing the Latest Radio Listening Declines
- Linear Media That Will Come Back
- A Nielsen and Eastlan Rate Battle
- Why iHeart is Panicking
- Consequences of Nielsen’s 3 Minute Quarter Hour
- The Danger of Comcast’s Cable Spinoffs
- The Hurry-Up Gutting of Cumulus
- The First AI Radio Station
- Beware This Cumulus “Efficiency” Doesn’t Spread