Live Nation Entertainment

Who Live Nation is

Live Nation Entertainment is the world's leading live entertainment company. Born in 2005 in the United States, it took its current shape in 2010 by merging with Ticketmaster, the ticketing giant. Its headquarters are in Beverly Hills, California, and the group is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LYV).

Its work covers the whole live chain: touring artists, producing concerts and festivals, operating venues, selling tickets and connecting brands with audiences. In 2025, the group presented around 55,000 shows in front of 159 million fans, and invested close to US$15 billion in artists and shows.

What it does

• Concerts and festivals — Live Nation Concerts produces concerts and festivals worldwide; Venue Nation runs the group's venue network, 460 venues.
• Ticketing — Ticketmaster, the global ticketing leader: 346 million fee-bearing tickets sold in 2025.
• Brands and partnerships — Live Nation Media & Sponsorship (Live Nation for Brands) connects more than 1,200 brands with live audiences; US$1.3 billion in 2025 revenue.
• Artists — Artist Nation Management supports careers; the group works with more than 11,000 artists.

Live Nation in Canada

In Canada, Live Nation Canada — headquartered in Toronto — is one of the country's most active promoters. In 2016, the group acquired Union Events' festival portfolio: Chasing Summer (Calgary), SONiC Boom (Edmonton) and X-Fest (Calgary) joined its network. In 2019, it took a majority stake in Toronto promoter Embrace Presents (Danforth Music Hall, Velvet Underground), then opened History, its 2,500-capacity Toronto venue, in 2021. In Toronto as well, Budweiser Stage is among the major stages associated with the group.

In Quebec, Live Nation and evenko (Groupe CH) announced a partnership in 2019 to jointly promote major concerts and festivals in Montreal, across Quebec and in Eastern Canada.

Their festivals, already in the Festival TV catalogue

Several major festivals produced by or linked to the group already have their full page on Festival TV — presentation, official poster and upcoming editions:

• Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival · Tennessee, United States — its Festival TV page
• Rock in Rio · Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — its Festival TV page
• Lollapalooza Brasil · São Paulo, Brazil — its Festival TV page
• Lollapalooza Chile · Santiago, Chile — its Festival TV page
• Austin City Limits Music Festival · Austin, United States — its Festival TV page
• Governors Ball · New York, United States — its Festival TV page
• Rock Werchter · Belgium — its Festival TV page
• Main Square Festival · Arras, France — its Festival TV page
• Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC Las Vegas) · Las Vegas, United States — its Festival TV page
• Vive Latino · Mexico City, Mexico — its Festival TV page
• Chasing Summer · Calgary, Canada — its Festival TV page

More of the group's flagship events — Lollapalooza in Chicago, Reading & Leeds and Wireless in the United Kingdom, Corona Capital in Mexico City — will join the catalogue as integrations progress.

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What Festival TV is preparing

• Editorial coverage of the group's festivals already in the catalogue: articles, edition announcements and official posters.
• Field reporting by the Festival Explorer show at major events, subject to accreditations.
• Visibility on the Festival TV channel, live 24/7, and across its pages, in French and in English.

Status: organisation profile. Festival TV is preparing a partnership approach to Live Nation; no agreement has been signed to date, and this page does not present Live Nation as an official partner.