3 of 11: The Booking Agents (Part of a Series About the Live Music Business)

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I tell you about the booking agents in this video - what they do, how they make money, and who they are.
Knowing about the work of the booking agents will make it easier for you to understand how the live music business works.

Find out more about concert production and the live music business in the rest of the series here on YouTube. I have also written a book, 'The Live Music Business', which has more details. Read about the book here: https://amzn.to/3u4vjkY😃

**Coda Agency eventually became Paradigm Talent Agency after the making of this series**

LINKS:
Pollstar: https://www.pollstar.com/
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency by James Andrew Miller https://amzn.to/2Y3Djgp


A list of booking agencies:
The Pollstar Booking Agency Directory 2018 Summer Edition lists 640 worldwide booking agents. These range from the multi-national, 'full-service' agencies, such as Endeavor and CAA, down to the tiny agencies who specialise in a genre, such as blues, or electronic music. The agencies listed below represent most of the artists in the Pollstar Top 100 tours - in 2014, they represented 72 of the TOP 100 tours!:
Creative Artists Agency https://www.caa.com
Endeavour http://www.wmeentertainment.com
Artists Group International http://www.artistgrp.info
United Talent Agency https://www.unitedtalent.com
Paradigm https://www.paradigmagency.com
Howard Rose Agency (no website!)

Major booking agents in the UK include:
Primary Talent https://primarytalent.com
ITB http://www.itb.co.uk
X-Ray Touring http://xraytouring.com
MN2S https://mn2s.com
Little Big http://www.lb-agency.net
FMLY https://fmly.agency