Words matter. These are the best Michael Rapino Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Clinging to old ways and fighting change is not the answer.
We believe that the Internet is the live concert promoters best friend although it might have crippled the record label business.
It’s cheaper to buy and use and place ads on Facebook than it is to buy print and radio.
I probably go to 100 shows a year.
Rihanna can sell just as many tickets in Cape Town as she can in Detroit.
The better job we do of getting the right fans in the right seats at the right time, the more money our clients are going to make.
Corporate America couldn’t be more excited about the demise of the record companies.
We can’t say to a Ticketmaster venue that says they want to use a different ticketing platform, ‘If you do that, we won’t put shows in your building.’
The biggest cost of my business is competition – promoters bidding against each other to get a tour.
As an industry, YouTube and digital content have a huge upside to creation and virally reach fans, and there’s a multi-billion dollar business of advertising attached to that.
You look at the Rolling Stones. It had the lips, the logo and the style. You look at Jay-Z, who I think is probably the smartest brand marketer I’ve ever met. These people understand the core of what their brand is and what their fans want.
To be a great concert marketer, we are shifting our focus from traditional media to online and mobile as direct ways to reach consumers.
No matter where the price of gas is, the consumer’s still got to get out. They’ve still got to save their money to go see Tim McGraw.
We do a big business with our midsized-venue model. We don’t need bands to be on the top-ten charts to make money.
Bono. He still is somebody who, and I don’t say I’m starstruck in that sense, I’m always in awe of. It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve been with him, he’s still an exceptional man that continually inspires me in many ways in life.
Madonna would not have done a 360 deal with us just because of our touring capability. We had to prove to her and others that we have been working on and built a very good execution capacity at Artist Nation.
To be the music company of the future, you have to figure out a way to be a great business and distribution partner of younger bands, midsized bands, and ones that break out, like Arcade Fire.
We as an industry need to do a better job of increasing the awareness of the show, decreasing the ticket price, and making it a better experience online to buy tickets.
I’m an introvert by nature.
I’m known for having a very small to-do list and a big don’t-do list.
In early days of Live Nation, we really believed it was important to be a direct-to-consumer business, which the labels aren’t and no promoter was at the time. By merging with Ticketmaster, we could we give the artist a direct relationship with the fan.
Drake has become a mega-star, with sell-out crowds around the world.
In my business, the cheaper the ticket price the better. I’d love for more consumers to walk into an amphitheater, park, have a beer and eat a hot dog. There’s no advantage to me to have anything but sold-out shows.
A hit is a hit, and when you have a hit great things happen.
Jay Z doesn’t care if he plays in Paris or Denver, but we do. We make more money in Paris.
Our business model rises or falls on our ability to serve the artists. If others can do it better, the artists will go elsewhere.
Every city’s got a famous rib place or coffeehouse or dessert place.
Live is truly a unique entertainment form; it cannot be duplicated and creates lifetime memories that fans are craving more than ever in this experience economy.
Part of calling ourselves Live Nation was about starting to shift the way we think, to be first and foremost fan-focused.
There’s always a fine line between ‘What is the market going to bear?’ and, ‘By the way, I’ve got 2,000 unsold seats.’
At a very young age in Canada, I had mapped out that my mission in life and my passion was live events.
We want people to know that Live Nation can serve all their live-music needs. If we’re going to be the ones who have a relationship with the consumer, then we have a responsibility to be the ones accountable if things go bad.
EDM is here to stay. If you’re 19 years old, this is your rock ‘n’ roll.
Adding C3, the leading festival portfolio in North America, to our global portfolio of Insomniac, Festival Republic and Country Nation provides Live Nation with the world’s largest festival platform.
I have no problem if you bought a Justin Timberlake ticket and you decide to go sell that ticket to somebody. We would first and foremost want to make sure that the first ticket sold, that the fan has a shot to buy that ticket.