Soup's On Entertainment, LLC

What Soup's On Entertainment, LLC does

Soup's On Entertainment, LLC is a New York-based live entertainment consultancy founded circa 1998, operating as a private LLC with a headcount of 1-10. The firm describes itself as a full-service consultancy with over 25 years of industry experience, delivering three integrated service lines: booking (music curation, artist programming, venue and festival site sourcing), financials and ticketing (budgeting, pricing, scaling, and sales execution), and production (staging, sound, lighting, and backline procurement). Client engagements span the full venue scale spectrum, from 99-seat black box theaters up to 15,000-seat arenas, with documented work alongside touring artists including Foo Fighters, Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Tool, Dolly Parton, Diana Ross, and Herbie Hancock.

The business model is project-based professional services revenue, with fees customized per engagement and no publicly disclosed pricing. The firm operates on a sales-led B2B go-to-market motion, acquiring clients through industry relationships, referrals, and a documented track record across more than a dozen named festivals, concert series, performing arts centers, and arts organizations. Primary customer segments are festival and event organizers, venues and performing arts centers (ranging from intimate theaters to large arenas), and arts organizations and nonprofits hosting benefit concerts. No technology product, software platform, AI/ML capability, app, or integration is associated with the firm; the offering is purely expertise- and relationship-based service delivery.

The current portfolio includes the Sleepy Hollow Music Festival, Pleasantville Music Festival, Toonerville Music Festival, Quarryside Concert Series at the Rock Row venue in Maine, and the ArtsWestchester Fall Benefit, with prior engagements including the In Between Days Summer Festival, Metropolitan Entertainment (arena acts), Free Jacks Concert Series, Chappaqua PAC (two seasons), Capital City Music Festival (inaugural 2023), and the Serious Fun Arts Fest. Marketing is passive, relying on referrals, the website project portfolio, and earned media through client event coverage rather than active campaigns. There is no disclosed parent company, investor, funding, or ownership information beyond independent founder-led LLC status.

Name

Soup's On Entertainment, LLC

Legal name

Soup's On Entertainment, LLC

Website

https://soupsonentertainment.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Soup's On Entertainment is a New York-based live entertainment consultancy providing booking, ticketing, financial, and production services to festival organizers, venues, and arts organizations across events ranging from 99-seat theaters to 15,000-seat arenas.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Entertainment Consulting

NAICS

Performing Arts Companies (7111), Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries (711)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900)

akta.pro primary industry

Live Music Booking (Bands, Soloists, DJs) (HSACAHAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Event Operations & Venue Services (Box Office, FOH/BOH, Concessions) (MPAIAFAL), Touring & Production Services (Staging, Lighting, Sound, Video) (MPAIAFAF)

Keywords

• Live entertainment consulting
• Music festival booking
• Event production services
• Talent booking agency
• Ticketing and financial consulting

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional consulting fees for booking, production, financial, and ticketing services provided to event organizers, festivals, venues, and arts organizations.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Soup's On Entertainment provides full-service live entertainment consultancy, including music booking and programming, financials and ticketing consultation (budgeting, pricing, sales execution), and production coordination (staging, sound, lighting, backline). Services span events from 99-seat black box theaters to 15,000-seat arenas and are delivered directly to festival organizers, venues, performing arts centers, and arts nonprofits.

Product overview

Soup's On Entertainment is a full-service live entertainment consultancy with over 25 years of experience, offering a unified suite of services rather than a software product. The company provides three core service areas: Booking (music curation and venue sourcing), Financials/Ticketing (budgeting, pricing, sales execution), and Production (staging, sound, lighting, backline). These services are delivered across a portfolio of festival and event projects including current engagements (Sleepy Hollow Music Festival, Pleasantville Music Festival, Toonerville Music Festival, Quarryside Concert Series, ArtsWestchester Fall Benefit) and past projects (In Between Days Summer Festival, Metropolitan Entertainment, Free Jacks Concert Series, Chappaqua PAC, Capital City Music Festival, Serious Fun Arts Fest). The consultancy serves events ranging from 99-seat black box theaters to 15,000-seat arenas.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Booking Services Music curation, programming, and talent booking using the consultancy's industry relationships; includes venue and festival site sourcing. Serves event organizers, festivals, venues, and arts organizations.
• Financials/Ticketing Services End-to-end financial consultation for live events including budgeting, pricing, scaling, and sales execution, plus ticketing strategy support. Serves event organizers, venues, and arts organizations.
• Production Services Event production coordination providing staging, sound, lighting, and backline procurement through established vendor relationships, delivering professional-grade live event production. Serves event organizers, venues, and arts organizations.

Named customers11 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wasserman Music: Wasserman Music is the music division of Wasserman, a global sports, music, and entertainment agency. It is a broad incumbent comparable because its artist representation and live music booking services overlap with Soup's On's core offering, but at substantially greater scale and scope.
• AEG Presents: AEG Presents is one of the largest live music promoters and venue operators globally, producing concerts and festivals nationwide. It is a broad incumbent because it competes for the same festival and touring mandates but operates at vastly larger scale with owned venues and integrated ticketing.
• Live Nation Entertainment: Live Nation is the world's largest live entertainment company, combining concert promotion, ticketing (Ticketmaster), and artist management. It is a broad incumbent because, although Soup's On advises clients on ticketing/financials that intersect with Live Nation's ecosystem, Live Nation offers a vertically integrated alternative.
• C3 Presents: C3 Presents is a concert promotion and festival production company (Austin City Limits, Lollapalooza). It is a broad incumbent because its festival booking and production work overlaps Soup's On's services, but at much greater scale and with owned/anchor festival brands.
• Paradigm Talent Agency: Paradigm is a full-service talent agency representing musicians, speakers, and other live performers. It is a broad incumbent comparable because, while it offers booking/routing as part of a much larger agency portfolio, it competes for the same festival and venue booking mandates.

Direct peers

• Monterey International: Monterey International is an artist booking agency focused on placing talent at festivals and concert venues across North America. It is a direct peer because its festival booking, routing, and live event production support overlaps closely with Soup's On's booking and production mandate.
• Agency for the Performing Arts (APA): APA is a performing arts and music talent agency that books artists for tours, festivals, and venues. It is a direct peer because its booking focus and client mix of festivals, PACs, and concert venues align with Soup's On's live entertainment booking and touring services.
• Madison House: Madison House is a boutique talent booking agency representing touring acts and curating festival lineups. It is directly comparable because its core business — booking artists for festivals and venue tours — mirrors Soup's On's headline booking service, and it serves a similar mid-tier festival segment.
• Bowery Presents: Bowery Presents is a concert promotion and venue operations company focused on Northeast US markets, programming venues and festivals. It is a direct peer because of its regional overlap with Soup's On's Northeast festival and venue mandate, even though it operates owned venues rather than acting as an independent consultant.
• PSquared Productions: PSquared Productions is a boutique live event production and entertainment consulting firm. It is a direct peer because it offers end-to-end festival and event production services to a similar client base of festivals, venues, and arts organizations, mirroring Soup's On's boutique consultancy model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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