Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. (LYV)
Concert promoter, venues and ticketing. Read October 19, 2026 from the annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025, filed February 19, 2026. Ranked 15 of the 17 Communication Services companies read so far, by the share within reach now.
Within reach now
22%
End of 2028
37%
Employees, annual report
34,700
Leading staffing pattern
Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events
Share of the working time within reach, long-run pace, four times in five
- Now22%
- End of 202734%
- End of 202837%
- End of 203038%
What changes for its people by the end of 2028, by its industries' figures
- Stays with people 61%
- Becomes checking a model's work 28%
- Handed over with lighter checks 10%
34,700 employees, the sum of 17,700 full-time and 17,000 seasonal and part-time at the end of 2025, at concerts, venues and festivals with Ticketmaster's ticketing by description.
The figures on this page come from the company's own annual report and from BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. They are estimates with a stated method. Nothing here says what the company will do: within reach is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
What follows from the reading
Share of working time within reach of AI, on the long-run pace at four in five: 22% now, 34% at the end of 2027, 37% at the end of 2028, 38% at the end of 2030. By the patterns, the work is about 38% desk work, 27% people work and 35% body work. These are the site's industry estimates weighted by the shares below: estimates with a stated method and range, not a forecast of what the company will do. By the same patterns, at the end of 2028 about 61% of the working time stays with people (conversation, in-person and hands-on work), 28% becomes checking a model's work and 10% could be handed over with lighter checks, from the industries' own figures, not the company's roles.
Headcount
34,700 employees as of December 31, 2025 (sum of stated parts). The filing states employees in 51 countries and no count by country; 40% of revenue is domestic.
The filing: “At the end of 2025, we employed approximately 17,000 seasonal and part-time employees and during peak seasonal periods, particularly in the summer months, we employed as many as 37,000 seasonal and part-time employees in 2025. 11 Labor Relations The stagehands at some of our venues and other employees are subject to collective bargaining agreements.”
The workforce as industry patterns
| Pattern | Share | Reason, from the filing |
|---|---|---|
| Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events | 80% | The concert promotion, venue and festival business (Concerts 63% of revenue, Sponsorship 33%) and the seasonal and part-time venue staff the filing describes, read by description (c) since the filing counts no employees by segment; the 830-person sponsorship sales force (a) sits inside it. |
| Travel Arrangement and Reservation Services | 20% | Ticketmaster's ticketing business, read at the reservation and ticket services group by description (c); ticketing is 4% of revenue but a technology and service operation with people of its own. |
What the filing says about the workforce: 17,700 full-time employees and about 17,000 seasonal and part-time employees at the end of 2025, as many as 37,000 seasonal and part-time at the summer peak; a sponsorship sales force of about 830; stagehands at some venues and other employees under collective bargaining agreements, no share stated.
What the filing says about AI
0 sentences in the filing name AI. The filing names AI in no sentence.
Its annual reports, year by year
Sentences naming AI in each annual report, counted by one rule, beside the median report in the Index that year. Each count links its filing. Every company, by year and sector
- Fiscal 20210median 0
- Fiscal 20220median 0
- Fiscal 20230median 1
- Fiscal 20240median 4
- Fiscal 20250median 10
Headcount by filing year
As reported in each year's annual report, with the filing. A year marked not read had no figure the reading could take from the report's text.
| Period | Employees | Filed | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 17,700 | 2026-02-19 | 10-K |
| 2024-12-31 | 16,200 | 2025-02-21 | 10-K |
| 2023-12-31 | 14,700 | 2024-02-22 | 10-K |
| 2022-12-31 | 12,800 | 2023-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2021-12-31 | 10,200 | 2022-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2020-12-31 | 8,200 | 2021-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2019-12-31 | 10,500 | 2020-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2018-12-31 | 9,500 | 2019-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2017-12-31 | 8,800 | 2018-02-27 | 10-K |
| 2016-12-31 | 8,300 | 2017-02-23 | 10-K |
| 2015-12-31 | 7,700 | 2016-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2014-12-31 | 7,900 | 2015-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2013-12-31 | 7,400 | 2014-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2012-12-31 | 7,100 | 2013-02-26 | 10-K |
| 2011-12-31 | 6,600 | 2012-02-24 | 10-K |
| 2010-12-31 | 6,500 | 2011-02-28 | 10-K |
| 2009-12-31 | 4,300 | 2010-02-25 | 10-K |
| 2008-12-31 | 4,700 | 2009-03-05 | 10-K |
| 2007-12-31 | 4,700 | 2008-02-29 | 10-K |
| 2006-12-31 | 4,400 | 2007-03-01 | 10-K |
| 2005-12-31 | 3,700 | 2006-03-21 | 10-K |
Limits of this reading
- The headcount is the sum of the stated full-time and year-end seasonal and part-time counts (rule 2); the collector took the 37,000 summer peak of seasonal and part-time employees alone.
- The filing counts no employees by segment, so the split between concerts and ticketing is by description (c).
Source: the company's annual report on EDGAR, accession 0001335258-26-000009, the filing. Read by Claude Fable 5.1 under rubric version 1, by the method. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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Questions about this company
- How much of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s working time is within reach of AI?
- An estimated 22% now and 37% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five, from the workforce Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s own annual report describes and BLS staffing patterns for its industries, never from a roster. It is an estimate with a stated method. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings, and it says nothing about what the company will do.
- How many people does Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. employ?
- 34,700 as of December 31, 2025, as its annual report for the period ending December 31, 2025 states as the sum of the parts it gives.
- What kinds of work make up Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s workforce?
- Read from its annual report as a blend of 2 industry staffing patterns, the largest Promoters of Performing Arts, Sports, and Similar Events; by those patterns the work is about 38% desk work, 27% people work and 35% body work. Each share has a one-sentence reason on this page that can be checked against the filing.
- What does Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s annual report say about AI?
- 0 sentences in the filing name AI. Its annual reports for fiscal 2021 to 2025 name it in 0, 0, 0, 0 and 0 sentences, year by year. They are counted and quoted on this page, never judged: a count says how much a filing talks about AI, not what the company does with it.
- How is this estimated?
- Claude Fable 5.1 read the annual report under the Index's written rubric (version 1) on October 19, 2026: the stated headcount, the share in the U.S. when stated, and the workforce as a blend of industry staffing patterns. The estimates are the site's industry estimates weighted by those shares, from O*NET tasks with estimated lengths and METR's measurements of how long a task AI models can finish. A company can write to info@stratussc.com to have its reading checked against its filing.
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