Jeremy Zimmer
Co-Founder and Board Member, United Talent Agency. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Jeremy Zimmer co-founded United Talent Agency (UTA) in 1991 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from 2012 to 2025. Over his tenure, he drove UTA's expansion into music, digital talent, and sports, while backing creator economy startups through UTA Ventures.
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5said about them ↓ Everything Jeremy Zimmer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Zimmer: Hollywood studios seemingly colluded to eliminate first-dollar gross backend
“I'm not an antitrust attorney, and I'm certainly not someone to threaten, you know ... Collusion. But it sure felt a lot like it. It all happened very quickly, all around the same time, and suddenly there was no first dollar gross to be had, and back ends beca…”
Zimmer: Talk of Hollywood union unrest is damaging and misplaced
“I think that, you know, the talk about it more, you know union unrest, I think is really, really damaging and really, really misplaced right now.
And I'm really hopeful that we don't have another couple of strikes cause that would just be devastating.”
Zimmer: CEOs Spoke Out During MeToo for Virtue Signaling, Now Stay Silent
“During, you know, Black Lives Matter and Me Too, you know, every, you know, every corporate CEO couldn't wait for, To say something, because it was the virtue signaling that was key to the time, and now we're all, you know, everyone's either so afraid or so am…”
Zimmer: Netflix or Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. would devastate Hollywood
“You know, this whole, like, who's gonna get net, you know, who's gonna get Warner Brothers? Netflix is gonna get it, or Paramount's gonna get it. You know, in a weird way, either one of them getting it is terrible for our business. It's terrible for the city o…”
Zimmer: Greedy Hollywood studios pocketed profits and enabled Netflix's disruption
“While we were investing in diversification, the studios weren't.
They were making movies, making television, making huge profits, putting it in all the executive pockets, and they were not investing.
And the fact that Netflix was built outside of our industry …”
Zimmer: Agency packaging offered benefits to writers and wasn't illegal
“Do I believe that there were a lot of benefits to writers in packaging? I really do. Do I believe that we were doing something illegal or scandalous or anything like that? I don't. It was, we were incredibly transparent.”
Zimmer: Only 30 truly great talent agents exist in the world
“Maybe in the world there are 30, Really great talent agents, right? In the whole, in the galaxy, as far as we know.”
Zimmer: Jeff Berg fired me from ICM over 'rape and pillage' remarks
“And so what happened is I got called into Jeff Berg's office and he says You know, I can't believe you said this. I can't take it anymore. You know, get your shit and get out of here. I was like, really? Yeah, I'm done. I'm done. Get your shit, get out of here…”
Zimmer: Consolidation among streaming platforms constricts opportunities for artists
“And now the power of the platforms is so consolidated and the way they make deals and the way they think about our clients. Has really constricted the opportunity for artists.”
Zimmer: Firing toxic top performers always makes the organization stronger
“Very successful, very toxic personalities, and every time we ultimately made the decision to get rid of those toxic personalities, we got better. Now there was always a period of insecurity where we were concerned, like, oh my God, we're gonna lose all these c…”
Zimmer: UTA canceled Oscar party to protest Trump travel ban
“We represented this, ah, boy, I'm embarrassed, I can't remember his name, a fantastic Iranian director who directed a movie called The Separation. And we represented him, and he was nominated for Academy Award, and this is in the first Trump presidency where h…”
Zimmer: Geofencing virtual concerts will help musical artists earn livings
“I don't know that they'll make up the same revenue from those events, but I think they will be able to earn a living
Doing live events, especially if we can figure out the right ways to sort of geofence a live event.”
Zimmer: Talent agency work cannot be learned anywhere outside an agency
“There's very few agents. So there's no place to go and learn how to be one other than in an agency.”
Zimmer: Pursuing an artistic career is an act of insanity
“Waking up and say, I want to be an actor or a director or a musician or a fine artist or a poet or an author is an act of insanity. You know, the odds of being successful are extremely small. So you have to, I, to me, respecting that journey is really, really …”
Zimmer: Modern agencies grew by building teams around multi-hyphenate talent
“It's, you know, the modern agency, the modern bigger agencies, it's not really that way because what you do is you build teams around your clients so that there's several people working for a client, and you rely on your other agents to be out in the marketpla…”
Zimmer: UTA narrowly avoided a disastrous music agency acquisition before COVID-19
“Particularly right before the pandemic, we were trying to buy a very big agency, primarily because of its music business, and at the last minute, the seller couldn't control his colleagues, and the deal fell apart, and I was like, oh my god, I'm so embarrassed…”
Zimmer: CAA poached Michael J. Fox and Sandra Bullock from early UTA
“And they took Michael J. Fox. They took Sandy Bullock. They took, they just went.”
Zimmer: Artists avoid negotiations so agents can absorb the conflict
“Usually when you're sitting in a room doing a deal, those people aren't in the room. They don't want to be in the room when you're doing their deal. They want to be out of the room being an artist and they want you in the room, you know, hurting and killing pe…”
Zimmer: I used to be sarcastic, hostile, and aggressive in deal negotiations
“I used to really get too riled up, you know, and I used to be, you know, I'd be tough on my colleagues and I'd be tough on the buyers and so, and I was just so, you know, I was sarcastic and nasty and like, you know, people would call and say, oh, we have this…”
Zimmer: Ari Emanuel and I alternately ignore each other at golf
“I mean, he does his thing. I do my thing. We see both members of the same golf course. We see each other there all the time. Sometimes we say hello to each other. Sometimes we ignore each other. I don't know what the reasoning is for when we ignore and when we…”
Zimmer: Big tech ad revenue completely dwarfs legacy Hollywood studio profits
“When you look at ad revenue from YouTube or Meta or Google or Amazon, you know, which is anywhere from, you know, forty billion to two hundred and ninety five billion, as compared to ad revenue for
You know, Warners or Comcast or whatever, which is like eight …”
Zimmer: Streamers are airing top content immediately, not hoarding it
“I don't think streamers or networks are sitting on their best stuff waiting for another time. I think they're throwing whatever they can out at the audience.”
Zimmer: Virtual formats cannot replace traditional Hollywood and touring revenue
“But it's not going to replace the day-to-day revenue that comes from actors starring in TV shows and movies, writers and directors and producers creating television. And, you know, musicians being out playing you know, a full tour or athletes playing a full se…”
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