ArtistForce Creates the First Real-Time Live Entertainment Business Information Resource

ArtistForce Creates the First Real-Time Live Entertainment Business Information Resource

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- ArtistForce announced new features and a licensing agreement with Billboard and Nielsen Business Media that will leverage data from the parties and enable the first real-time live entertainment business data resource available on ArtistForce.com.

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For ArtistForce customers, this new release eliminates historically latent industry reporting, and provides real-time artist availability information to venues, promoters, and talent buyers, and real-time venue availability information to agents, managers, and promoters -- tools that have not previously been available in the live entertainment industry.

The ArtistForce license agreement with Billboard and Nielsen Business Media will improve ArtistForce.com proprietary industry metrics and information generated by its patent-pending live entertainment business platform including up-to-the minute talent availability and tour information with Billboard's current and historical boxscore concert grosses, 50,000+ tour dates via Celebrity Access, daily Billboard.biz news, and 25+ years of Billboard charts, providing a new and comprehensive view of the industry that will drive enhanced decision making on the ArtistForce.com platform.

In the latest update to the ArtistForce.com platform -- venues can search real-time talent availability, agents can search real-time venue availability, tour dates can be reported with a single click, and live entertainment industry professionals can add, edit and manage their tour dates in real time using ArtistForce.com. ArtistForce 1-click box office reporting feature provides industry professionals the option to report box office grosses automatically during settlement.

Available venues on a specific date can be visually plotted on a map and restricted for market exclusivity, and new search enhancements allow an Agent to find available venues which are outside of a radius-restricted exclusivity contract clause, but within a specified greater radius (greater than X, less than Y). These enhancements have been released ahead of the company's intelligence products scheduled for release in 2009.

ArtistForce.com offers web-based tools that industry members use to communicate, manage relationships, negotiate offers, transact business, track bookings and share documents with a professional marketplace of agents, managers, venues, promoters, talent buyers, and performing artists.

ArtistForce is building the most comprehensive live entertainment business platform and information service available anywhere. ArtistForce CEO Jonathan Romley developed this revolutionary new offering as part of ArtistForce's ongoing commitment to providing entertainment industry professionals the tools they need to achieve the success they desire and deserve.

ArtistForce is leading innovation in creative business solutions for the live entertainment industry. The company's flagship offering -- ArtistForce.com, is the first web-based relationship management platform and marketplace for live entertainment. ArtistForce also offers business intelligence solutions, consulting, IT services, custom application development and outsourcing specifically for leading live entertainment organizations. The company was founded in 2006 by industry technologist Jonathan Romley, and is headquartered in Hollywood, California, with offices in New York, Nashville, and Austin.

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CONTACT: Joel Lindenberg of ArtistForce, +1-323-203-1861,
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Web site: http://www.artistforce.com/

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