Live Nation
US-headquartered NYSE-listed live entertainment and ticketing major; entered Africa via Ticketmaster's 2024 acquisition of Cape Town's Quicket.
- Based in
- Beverly Hills, United States
- Founded
- 2010 (Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger; Live Nation itself spun off from Clear Channel in 2005)
- Website
- livenationentertainment.com
Live Nation Entertainment is the American live-events and ticketing group formed by the 2010 merger of Live Nation and Ticketmaster. It is publicly traded on the NYSE (LYV) and headquartered in Beverly Hills, California; Liberty Media’s Liberty Live Holdings holds roughly 30% of shares, the largest single stake, but Live Nation operates as an independent public company rather than a Liberty subsidiary.
Its African footprint runs through its ticketing arm, Ticketmaster, which entered South Africa directly in 2022 and then acquired Cape Town-based self-service ticketing platform Quicket in July 2024. Quicket, founded in 2011, continues to operate under its own brand and management, with reach extending into Nigeria, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia and Botswana.
Live Nation has no African ownership stake or African headquarters; its presence on this list rests on that single, named acquisition rather than a broader African operation. In the ownership terms this directory tracks, it is a major, publicly traded global player, not an independent African company.
