Lollapalooza
2 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jun 6, 2022 by Ryan Schreiber · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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Jun 6, 2022 bearish
Live music festivals are incredibly high-risk businesses vulnerable to single-point failures
“There is so much overhead that it's also like kind of a delicate dance where all of these things have to just happen just right. You know, you have to have a reasonable artist budget with which you can attract talent that's not going to the competing festivals…”
Jun 6, 2022 positive
Pitchfork kept its music festival profitable by deliberately refusing to scale
“By staying mid-sized and not trying to scale up and not trying to compete with the Lollapalooza's and Coachella's and Bonnaroo's we were able to manage to make it profitable, break even. So no, it wasn't a big, it was probably, it might've been 10% of our over…”