LiveNation.com Launches New Set of Open Platform Features, Empowering Fans and Artists to Enhance the Premier Live Music Destina
October 29 2009 - 7:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Live Nation, the
world's leading live music company, today announced major
enhancements to its open platform at LiveNation.com, further
empowering fans and artists to shape the ticket-buying and
concert-going experience. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081203/LAW048LOGO-b) As a
top-fifty ranked ecommerce site and a top-five online music
network, LiveNation.com already is a premier destination for live
music fans to connect with the artists they love. The suite of new
open features announced today places much of the site's content
into the hands of the community of fans and artists at
LiveNation.com. Some of the new features launched include: -- The
ability for artists and fans to upload their own concerts to
LiveNation.com, enabling these events to be searched and to appear
side-by-side with the biggest artists and concerts in the world. --
A robust set of fan-generated content modules, including concert
and artist-specific wikis, ratings and reviews, fan moderated
Q&As, and integrated Twitter streams. -- Facebook Connect
integration which enables fans to share and discover concert
information and to identify friends in their network who are going
to a show. -- A comprehensive and comparable listing of concerts
and primary ticket inventory. "We have the most passionate
consumers in the world," said Michael Rapino, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Live Nation. "By opening up our site to fans
and artists alike, we are building a powerful community that
reinforces the ecommerce components of our business. We can't wait
to see how fans participate." These new fan-centric features expand
on the successful initiatives LiveNation.com has already launched,
including a fan-friendly purchase guarantee and the Live Nation
Open API, which is now used by more than 1,000 web developers to
integrate and build upon Live Nation's content. Live Nation
partners including Bazaaroice, Sociable and ThrillCall contribute
technology and data to a number of the launched features. ABOUT
LIVE NATION Live Nation's mission is to maximize the live concert
experience. Our core business is producing, marketing and selling
live concerts for artists via our global concert pipe. Live Nation
is the largest producer of live concerts in the world, annually
producing over 22,000 concerts for 1,600 artists in 33 countries.
During 2008, the company sold over 50 million concert tickets and
drove over 70 million unique visitors to LiveNation.com. Live
Nation is transforming the concert business by expanding its
concert platform into ticketing and building the industry's first
artist-to-fan vertically integrated concert platform. The company
is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and is listed on the
New York Stock Exchange, trading under the symbol LYV. For
additional information about the company, please visit
http://www.livenation.com/investors.
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Live Nation CONTACT: John
Vlautin of Live Nation, +1-310-867-7127, ; or Rachel Carr,
+1-212-981-5253, , for Live Nation Web Site:
http://www.livenation.com/
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