{"id":98356,"date":"2021-01-22T14:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/?post_type=companies&#038;p=98356"},"modified":"2021-01-22T14:41:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T14:41:10","slug":"paradigm-talent-agency","status":"publish","type":"companies","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/companies\/paradigm-talent-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradigm Talent Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paradigm Talent Agency is a live music booking agency headquartered in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Paradigm represents and\/or has represented\u00a0artists including Ed Sheeran (US), Shawn Mendes, Diplo and Coldplay.<\/p>\n<p>The company has over 700 employees worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Run by CEO Sam Gores, Paradigm was rumored to be an acquisition target for United Talent Agency (UTA) in 2019, but <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/biz\/news\/paradigm-no-deal-with-uta-1203237412\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports suggest<\/a> talks broke down.<\/p>\n<p>In early 2020, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/business\/story\/2020-01-30\/caa-in-discussions-to-buy-paradigm-talent-agency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LA Times reported<\/a> that live giant CAA had held \u201cexploratory discussions\u201d with Paradigm about an acquisition of the latter company.<\/p>\n<p>Sam Gores responded with a memo to staff in which he said: \u201cI want to address a recent press report suggesting the potential sale of Paradigm. Let me state emphatically \u2013 we are not for sale, nor are we selling the agency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paradigm Agency, founded in 1992, has worked with artists including Coldplay and Ed Sheeran<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37216,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-98356","companies","type-companies","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/companies"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/companies\/98356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbusinessworldwide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}