Mastering Events: An Audience Republic Podcast
Mastering Events is a podcast dedicated to exploring the dynamic world of live event marketing and promotion, and the people who have made it their profession. Presented by all-in-one event marketing and CRM platform Audience Republic, and hosted by former Rolling Stone Australia editor Rod Yates, Mastering Events brings together thought leaders and seasoned professionals from the live event sector to combine insightful conversations with lively anecdotes, real-world examples and actionable takeaways. Mastering Events is a must-listen for all concert, venue, festival and event promoters, and anyone seeking to make a mark in the live events sector.
Episodes
Brian Kitts is the Chief Marketing and Business Development Officer for City of Denver venues such as Colorado Convention Center, Denver Coliseum, Denver Performing Arts Complex, McNichols Civic Center Building, and of course the world famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
The diversity of these venues and the events they hold gives Brian a unique and comprehensive perspective on the event marketing landscape.
Corey Topp is the Founder and Director of Sellout Digital, a digital marketing agency specializing in events.
He is well versed in the art of selling out an event. Exhibit A is his own festival Reminisce, which he grew from a backyard party into an annual 10,000 capacity event in Melbourne. And then there’s Tailgate, a 1500-capacity Superbowl party he launched and sold out in just 16 days earlier this year...
Randy Nichols is an artist manager and music tech startup advisor.
He also has one of those resumes that makes you question whether he’s found a few more hours in the day than the rest of us.
He's guided artists to multiple Gold records and Grammy nominations, as well as overseen record releases and sold out tours on six continents. He manages or has managed Underoath, The Starting Line, Vaca...
Sean Callanan is the Founder of sports digital marketing agency Sports Geek, and host of the Sports Geek podcast.
His career bega...
Michael Julian is the Founder of SEERS, a multifaceted company dedicated to driving innovation and fostering cultural transformation in the world of dance music, live events and festivals.
Michael, or MJ as he’s commonly known, was born in Minsk in Belarus before moving to Brooklyn with his family in the early ’90s. In the last year of high school his life changed when he attended Tunnel nightclub in New Y...
Jesse Lawrence is the CEO and Co-Founder of marketing and content development platform FanIQ, and Founder of secondary ticketing platform TicketIQ.
Each company works in tandem in what Jesse calls “the circle of life in the ticketing ecosystem”, and we explore that concept in this interview.
We also look in depth at the kinds of content Jesse and his team create to help sell tickets; the most ...
Justin Andrews is the Director of Ticketing at Danny Wimmer Presents.
Justin’s ticketing resume is long and varied, having spent ...
Laurie Kirby is the President and Founder of FestForums, North America’s premiere conference for the festival industry.
Each year in Santa Barbara festival producers from the music, film, and food and wine industries gather to swap ideas and network at FestForums, which Laurie founded in 2015.
Laurie herself has plenty of firsthand experience in the festival industry, h...
Oscar Ugaz is the Strategy Director of Atomikal, and former Digital Business Manager at Real Madrid.
For a man who worked at one of the most famous football clubs in the world, Oscar never really had any love of sport. But then again, he wasn’t hired to pull on his football boots and score goals – he was there because of his expertise in digital innovation, media and marketing, skills which form the cornerstone of our discussion.
W...
Anthony Diaz is the Chief Operating Officer and Partner at Topeka Music Vacations.
He's had a long and accomplished career in the music vacations business, having spent more than a decade at Sixthman, which hosts music festivals at sea with events such as the Emo’s Not Dead Cruise, the Broadway Cruise, the Kiss Kruise, and many more.
In January 2024 he joined Topeka Mus...
Josh Walker is the Co-Founder and CEO of Sports Innovation Lab.
Sports Innovation Lab is a data company that is revolutionizing how sports leagues, teams and brands use data to understand their customers and acquire their future fan. The company analyzes fan behavior at scale, and then uses that intelligence to help organizations drive live viewership, increase conversion rates and build more meaningful sp...
Erin Nourijanian is the Vice President of Marketing at UBS Arena.
When Erin started the role in February 2021, she was in the uni...
Paul Newman is the Director of Ticketing at AXS UK.
When it comes to event ticketing, there’s not much Paul hasn’t seen. Not only will he celebrate 10 years as the Director of Ticketing at AXS UK in 2024, but prior to that he worked at Live Nation and AEG, where his roles included Director of Ticketing at London’s O2 Arena.
He worked on Michael Jackson’s record-breaking...
Morgan Margolis is the CEO and President of Knitting Factory Entertainment.
The very first Knitting Factory opened in New York in 1987, but since then the company’s operations have expanded far and wide, to the point where they now own and manage venues ranging from small clubs to outdoor amphitheatres, and produce events and festivals such as Desert Daze. Knitting Factory is also involved ...
Callie Lardas is the Senior Director of Tour Marketing at mtheory LLC.
Callie began her career as a booking assistant at Madison House, before realizing being an agent wasn’t for her.
She set her sights on event marketing and embarked on a journey that has taken her through organizations like Live Nation and AEG Live, before landing at mtheory LLC, where she works across the tour marketing for...
Steve Oberman is the Executive Vice President and Head of Music at See Tickets North America.
He and his team oversee the ticketing for hundreds of festivals and events every year, making him the perfect person to talk to about trends and best practices in the ticketing space.
He actually began his music industry career in management, working alongside artists like Velv...
Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive and artist/record producer manager.
It’s impossible to capture all of his accomplishments in this brief space, so here are just a few of them: In 2010 he co-founded the NH7 Weekender festival in India, the first of its type ever in the country; in 2006 he co-founded Africa Express with Blur vocalist Damon Albarn and journalist Ian Birrell, a non-profit or...
Dustin Sugar-Moore is the Director of Marketing at I.M.P., the independent concert promotion and production company that operates venues ranging from the legendary 9:30 Club in Washington D.C. all the way up to the 20,000-capacity Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland.
We cover a lot of ground in this interview, from how Dustin manages a mailing list of around one million people ...
Ben Allen is the Marketing Director at LNE Presents, a full-service entertainment company that delivers events across Utah, Florida, Nevada and Maryland.
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Steve Levy is the CEO of Clanger Digital and Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Revenue Officer for Imagine Music Festival.
It’s difficult to sum up the depth and breadth of Steve’s career, but here are a few dot points: in the late-'80s Steve was one of the pioneers of the underground rave scene in LA, promoting shows and holding raves in abandoned warehouses all the while evading the reach...
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