Amplify was created by Dave Brooks and Kristen Bilanko in 2014.
Billboard, the world’s largest voice in music, immediately introduced the acquisition of main dwell leisure information web site Amplify Media Inc. Billboard gained full possession of Amplify on June 18, 2018. Amplify founder Dave Brooks has joined Billboard’s full-time employees as a senior correspondent, together with author Taylor Mims, and can lead Billboard’s touring and dwell leisure protection. Amplify will proceed to supply its subscribers essentially the most insightful evaluation and commentary on the music touring trade in addition to its signature e-newsletter, The Real. Brooks may also enhance the scope and depth of Billboard’s protection of dwell concert events and touring. Amplify will proceed to function from its places of work in Long Beach, Calif.
Amplify Media was created by Brooks and his spouse Kristen Bilanko in 2014 and it rapidly turned the main tip sheet in dwell leisure, delivering trade information to a sturdy subscriber base. Brooks has an extended profession masking the music enterprise and has held positions at publications resembling Pollstar, Venues Today and the Los Angeles Times.
“I began Amplify as a result of I wished to inform tales concerning the dwell music enterprise in a brand new and thrilling manner,” Brooks says. “We constructed a tremendous viewers, and now, with this sale, Amplify and Billboard will come collectively to create essentially the most impactful platform in touring and dwell leisure.”
“We are extraordinarily excited to amass Amplify,” mentioned Billboard’s vp of content material, Ross Scarano. “Dave Brooks is a real entrepreneur who is aware of the dwell leisure world inside out and we’re thrilled to have the ability to present Billboard’s readers with extra in-depth protection of the touring trade.”
This yr, Brooks may also be programming Billboard’s just lately rebranded Live Music Summit & Awards, set to happen on November 13–14, 2018 on the Montage in Beverly Hills. The Billboard Live Music Summit & Awards, previously generally known as the Billboard Touring Conference & Awards, is the premiere gathering of energy gamers, artists and live performance trade insiders devoted to tackling the challenges and alternatives they face within the live performance enterprise, whereas redefining and increasing the boundaries of the dwell expertise. Registration for this yr’s summit is now open. Click here to study extra.
