Agents and managers for artists, athletes, entertainers and other public figures
This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in representing or managing creative and performing artists, sports figures, entertainers, and celebrities. These establishments represent their clients in contract negotiations, manage or organize the client's financial affairs, and generally promote the careers of their clients. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 481
- Under 10 employeesA
- 91%
- Establishments · USA
- 4,878
- Employment · USA
- 24,548
- Payroll · USA
- $3.9B
Size and shape
How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.
Canadian establishments by number of employeesA
Of 481 Canadian establishments with employees, 91% have fewer than ten — an industry of very small operators.
Where they areA
Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.
Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.
How businesses here compete
The structural profile of subsector 711, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.
Costs that ticket prices have never covered, met by grants and donations. Promoters and agents are the commercial, enterable edge.
- Who sets the price
- Ticket buyers, donors and grant bodies.
- The software it runs on
- Ticketing, donor management and booking.
Market screens and studies
Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.
No operating-business record sits in this industry — the record filed here is a software market, shown in the next section.
Software serving this industry
The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.
And what every business buys · 25 generic categories
Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.
Companies in this industry · 6
Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.
| Company | Filed under | Revenue | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| GigFinessePrivate | Agents and managers for artists, entertainers and other public figures711411 | — | 1/6 |
| GigwellPrivate | Agents and managers for artists, entertainers and other public figures711411 | — | 2/6 |
| Master TourPrivate | Agents and managers for artists, entertainers and other public figures711411 | — | 3/6 |
| MuzeekPrivate | Agents and managers for artists, entertainers and other public figures711411 | — | 4/6 |
| Prism.fmPrivate | Agents and managers for artists, entertainers and other public figures711411 | — | 5/6 |
| TagminPrivate | Agents and managers for artists, entertainers and other public figures711411 | — | 6/6 |
Who works here
The occupations employed in Arts, entertainment and recreation, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.
Concentrated in this sectorA
These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.
And the jobs every business has
Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. But note the shape of this industry: 91% of establishments have fewer than ten employees, and at that size most of these roles are one person wearing several hats, or bought in from outside.
Inside this industry
1 row sits directly beneath 7114, and 3 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71141 | Agents and managers for artists, athletes, entertainers and other public figures | 481 | Talent & Booking Agency Software |
Alongside it, under 711 Performing arts, spectator sports and related industries
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7111 | Performing arts companies | 1,152 | Performing Arts Company |
| 7112 | Spectator sports | 379 | Minor-League Sports Team & Racetrack |
| 7113 | Promoters (presenters) of performing arts, sports and similar events | 1,396 | Event Ticketing & Venue Operations Software |
| 7115 | Independent artists, writers and performers | 2,293 | Independent Artist & Writer Practice |