A lot goes on in our world each week — some news you may catch, and some may slip by your radar. Below are a few articles that caught our attention, and we didn’t want you to miss ’em!Did You Catch Jim on the Bob Lefsetz Podcast? Music industry legend Bob Lefsetz took a deep dive with Goldstar CEO Jim McCarthy into his career, the founding of Goldstar and more. You can listen to the full interview here.The Oscars Try...

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Want to know how to make selling tickets with us even easier and more effective? Have you noticed some new features in the Goldstar Audience Marketing Platform, but aren’t sure how to use them? Do you have a question about Goldstar's Boost, promotions or anything else?The Goldstar team wants to help!We’re hosting a live demo and Q&A session Tuesday, August 14, at 10:00am PST. You'll learn:How to submit an event in the Audience Marketing Platform How to use...

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What do Moby, Shep Gordon and our own Goldstar CEO, Jim McCarthy have in common? They’ve all been interviewed on The Lefsetz Podcast.If you’re not familiar with him, Bob is a legend in the music business. His very popular Lefsetz Letter covers the gamut and is considered a staple in the industry. (You can sign up here.)In this very in-depth interview, Jim talks candidly about the start of Goldstar, his own career path and the realizations along the way.You...

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A lot goes on in our world each week — some news you may catch, and some may slip by your radar. Below are a few articles that caught our attention, and we didn’t want you to miss ’em!AI Is Changing the Way You Sell: Choosing a movie on Netflix, ordering towels on Amazon, even buying tickets on Goldstar are all influenced by AI. As Victor Antonio for Harvard Business Review explains, "If you ever had a thought about a...

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A lot goes on in our world each week — some news you may catch, and some may slip by your radar. Below are a few articles that caught our attention, and we didn’t want you to miss ’em!Facebook Loses 4 Twitters Worth of Value: After reporting disappointing earnings, Facebook's stock shares dropped 19.6 percent in a day. The numbers are pretty staggering, but Tech Crunch's Romain Dillet helps us visualize them: "$123,400,000,000 is a big number. It’s hard to...

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Ever wondered about the "x" in TEDxBroadway?Well, you've heard of TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design). TED is the big conference, which has been held annually since 1990 and set the model to provide these powerful talks online for free. TEDx events were created some years later with the same spirit of the TED mission, "ideas worth spreading," but are independently organized on a community level. The word that follows each and every TEDx indicates ... a location.Therefore, when we talk about TEDxBroadway, we're talking...

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A lot goes on in our world each week — some news you may catch, and some may slip by your radar. Below are a few articles that caught our attention, and we didn’t want you to miss ’em!Audio Streaming Beats CDs in Germany: According to Billboard, "Audio streaming now represents nearly half of revenues and has replaced CDs as the largest sales segment on the German record market." Wolfgang Spahr reports: "From the late 1980s on, CDs enjoyed...

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Give Arts Reach two days, and they’ll give you the tools and action plan you can put to use immediately to fire up your audiences and donors. And you’ll have a great time in the process!Mark your calendars, because the Arts Reach National Arts Marketing, Development & Ticketing Conference is coming to Los Angeles on October 29-30 to the Millennium Biltmore Hotel.Sometimes life (and business) throws curveballs. That’s why Arts Reach is bringing together professionals to collectively think outside...

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Not that Off Broadway. We mean off-off-off-off-off Broadway. Way off. Like another industry entirely.Each year, we pack the TEDxBroadway stage with Broadway industry experts, but we also want to feature speakers who are doing incredible things from other areas as well.Imagine you're in the choir business. And you go to a choir conference. Sure, it's great to see other people from other choirs and hear what they are up to. But, if everything you hear at this conference is...

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A lot goes on in our world each week -- some news you may catch, and some may slip by your radar. Below are a few articles that caught our attention, and we didn’t want you to miss ’em!“Philadelphia’s Tony Awards” Are Changing: The Barrymore Awards, otherwise known as “Philadelphia’s Tony Awards," are going gender-neutral, according to John Timpane for The Inquirer. Timpane explains, "Instead of a best actor and best actress, there will now be awards for best...

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