ShowbizJobs

What ShowbizJobs does

ShowbizJobs operates an online career platform focused exclusively on entertainment industry jobs and internships, legally organized as Kennedy & Price, Inc. and headquartered at 2934 1/2 Beverly Glen Circle, Los Angeles, CA 90077. The platform aggregates listings across 40+ specialized categories — production crew, post-production, marketing, TV station, talent agency, sports, music, and others — from major studios, networks, sports franchises, and music labels (Warner Bros. Discovery, Netflix, Disney, Paramount+, CNN, the LA Lakers, Atlanta Braves, Washington Nationals, Orlando Magic, Island Records, IndieWire, among others), with 7,432 active job listings and 225 active internships at the time of data collection. The service is delivered via a web platform at showbizjobs.com, complemented by iOS and Android mobile applications launched in 2015, a preview environment at preview.showbizjobs.com, and a content/blog property called RoleCall.

The underlying product is a curated, vetted job board: the company states every listing is reviewed to remove stale or fraudulent postings, distinguishing it from generic career sites. Job seekers can search and apply for free; a paid Insider Membership ($12.95/month or $70/year, with a 3-day free trial) unlocks First Look Deal (48-hour early access to new postings), Job Mapping (interactive commute visualization), customized Daily Job Alerts, application tracking with delivery confirmation, and saved searches/resumes. Distribution is self-serve PLG across web and mobile, augmented by SEO across category and location pages, email alerts, and an active LinkedIn group.

The business model is single-stream: subscription recurring revenue from optional Insider Memberships. There is no disclosed employer-side paid posting tier, no external funding (the company is bootstrapped), no parent company, no acquisitions, and no subsidiaries. Headcount is 1-10, consistent with a small, independently operated business. Founded in 1995 as Entertainment Recruiting Network by two former Disney HR professionals (Paul Buss and Jim Kocher), the company rebranded to ShowbizJobs in 1997 and has undergone periodic platform and brand refreshes in 2001, 2005, 2015, and 2020, the last of which was described as a 'quantum increase in job content' coinciding with the company's 25th anniversary.

Name

ShowbizJobs

Legal name

Kennedy & Price, Inc. dba ShowbizJobs

Website

https://showbizjobs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1995

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

ShowbizJobs operates a curated, entertainment-only online job board for industry jobs and internships, aggregating 7,432 active listings across 40+ categories from studios, networks, sports teams, and music labels, monetized via an optional Insider Membership subscription at $12.95/month or $70/year.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Professional & Business Services Marketplaces (Freelancers, SMB Services) (BPAMAHAG)

Keywords

• Entertainment job board
• Industry job listings
• Job search platform
• Career job alerts
• Internship job postings

Headquarters

HQ city

Los Angeles

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Insider Membership Subscription: Paid subscription model offering premium features including first-look job previews, job mapping, daily alerts, resume reviews, application tracking, and saved searches. Basic job viewing and applications remain free for all users.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

ShowbizJobs operates an online entertainment industry job board platform that aggregates job and internship listings from major entertainment companies, sports teams, music labels, and production studios. Job seekers can browse and apply to listings for free across 40+ specialized categories, while optional Insider Membership subscriptions unlock premium features such as first-look job previews, daily alerts, job mapping, and application tracking. The platform also provides a self-serve employer portal for posting jobs.

Product overview

ShowbizJobs operates as a specialized job board platform for the entertainment industry, offering a core job board with free job searching and applications, supplemented by a premium Insider Membership subscription. The platform aggregates entertainment jobs and internships from major media companies, currently listing 7,432 active job postings and 225 internships across 40+ categories. Premium Insider features include First Look Deal (early job access), Job Mapping (commute visualization), and Daily Job Alerts. The company also maintains a mobile app presence and publishes the RoleCall Blog as a career advice resource. Founded in 1995 as Entertainment Recruiting Network, the company rebranded to ShowbizJobs in 1997 and has undergone multiple platform redesigns, most recently in 2020.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• ShowbizJobs Job Board

Quantifiable outcome

• 7432 active listings, 158 new listings daily
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Mandy.com: Entertainment industry jobs and crew network serving film, TV, theater, and production sectors. Overlaps with ShowbizJobs on production crew and post-production job categories with a similar freemium+subscription model.
• ProductionHUB: Production services marketplace connecting production professionals (crew, equipment, locations) with entertainment companies. Comparable niche specialization and self-serve marketplace model targeting the same entertainment employer base.
• StaffMeUp: Job board and freelancer network specifically for entertainment, media, and production professionals. Direct competitor with similar subscription/premium features and target audience of entertainment job seekers.
• EntertainmentCareers.net: Long-running entertainment industry job board covering production, post-production, broadcasting, and music roles. Direct competitor in the niche entertainment recruitment space ShowbizJobs dominates.
• TeamWork Online: Sports industry job board specializing in team, league, and sports organization employment. Comparable niche specialization and business model, serving a specific entertainment vertical that ShowbizJobs also addresses.
• WorkInSports: Sports industry job board and career resource serving teams, leagues, media, and sports-adjacent employers. Direct overlap with ShowbizJobs' sports job categories and similar subscription/employer monetization model.

Broad incumbents

• Backstage: Major casting and entertainment platform with auditions, jobs, and talent representation across performing arts and media. Broader scope than ShowbizJobs but overlapping audience of entertainment professionals seeking career opportunities.
• LinkedIn: Dominant generalist professional network with extensive job listings across entertainment and media. Competes for both job-seeker attention and employer hiring spend, with vastly greater scale and resources than ShowbizJobs.
• MediaMatch (now defunct MediaBistro): Former media industry job and content platform acquired by Prometheus (now defunct). Historically served the same media/entertainment job-seeker audience ShowbizJobs targets, illustrating the difficulty of scaling niche media recruitment businesses.

Others

• Indeed:

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/showbizjobs
• Facebookfacebook.com/showbizjobscom
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/showbizjobs
• Instagraminstagram.com/showbizjobs

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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