Independent artists, writers and performers
This industry group comprises independent individuals (freelance) primarily engaged in performing in artistic productions, creating artistic and cultural works or productions, or providing technical expertise necessary for these productions. Independent celebrities, such as athletes, engaging in endorsement, speaking and similar services, are included. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A
- Establishments · CanadaA
- 2,293
- Under 10 employeesA
- 97%
- Establishments · USA
- 38,064
- Employment · USA
- 61,989
- Payroll · USA
- $11.5B
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 2,293 Canadian establishments with employees, 97% 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.
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.
No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Ticketing, donor management and booking.
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 · 4
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warner Music GroupPrivate | Independent artists, writers and performers7115 | $6.7B | 1/4 |
| Book publishers — Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & SchusterPrivate | Independent artists, writers and performers7115 | — | 2/4 |
| Collecting societies — SOCAN, Access Copyright, ACTRAPrivate | Independent artists, writers and performers7115 | — | 3/4 |
| Every other practitionerPrivate | Independent artists, writers and performers7115 | — | 4/4 |
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: 97% 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 7115, and 4 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.
| Code | Industry | Establishments · CA | What is known |
|---|---|---|---|
| 71151 | Independent artists, writers and performers | 2,293 | screened at 7115 |