Press record
External coverage
This page records items published elsewhere about Live Index or the people responsible for its research. It exists because the difference between a newsroom writing about a publication and a wire carrying that publication's own announcement is a real difference, and a list of logos hides it. Each entry states who published it, when, and how it came to exist.
Nothing here is treated as an endorsement, and coverage is never used as a substitute for evidence. A syndicated launch release is an interested source: it can establish that an announcement was made and what it said, and it establishes nothing about whether a measurement is correct. Where a claim about a person or the organisation depends on third-party corroboration, that corroboration is recorded separately in the sourced person record, with its status shown.
- Items recorded
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- Publishers
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- Independent editorial
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- Interviews
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The record
Markets InsiderAug 26, 2026Syndicated launch press release
Industry Veteran Omar Afra Launches Live Index, a New Live Music Data and Analysis PlatformSubject: Live Index and Omar Afra · Distributed by Plentisoft
Launch release announcing Live Index as an independent research and data publication on live-music economics, infrastructure and market structure, and identifying Omar Afra as its founder. Carried, not reported: it is an interested launch source, not independent verification.
Markets Insider labels the item a press release and states that the Markets Insider and Business Insider editorial teams were not involved in creating it.
Links from this item: the anchor “Omar Afra” resolves to the canonical person page; a site link resolves to the Live Index site. Links inside a syndicated release are part of the release, not editorial endorsement by the host.
Distribution footprintRelease 89201657
- The Manila Times — TMT Newswire (Plentisoft)
- The News Front (Amazon Music) · audio brief · “Omar Afra Launches Live Index Music Analytics Platform” — Audio brief that directs listeners to the full press release and to liveindex.io.
These are further distributions of the same release, counted once as a single item. They are not independent editorial coverage and do not add to the independent-source count above.
Live Index researchNational indicatorsFestival price and affordabilityTouring economicsFree Press Summer Fest archiveDay for Night archive
Elevated MagazinesAug 24, 2026Interview
Omar Afra — Publishing the Live Music Numbers Nobody PrintsSubject: Live Index and Omar Afra · By Farrah Mann
Long-form Q&A with Omar Afra about Live Index's research programme: consolidation and ticketing, the touring middle and mid-sized venues, fan affordability and live-music infrastructure, artificial intelligence and live performance, and the Free Press Summer Fest and Day for Night histories. Externally hosted subject-statement evidence that he founded and leads Live Index, not independent corroboration of the claims he makes within it.
A question-and-answer interview. The publisher, date, headline and the fact of publication are external facts; the first-person answers inside it are the subject's own statements, not the publisher's findings.
Links from this item: a site link resolves to the Live Index site. Links inside a syndicated release are part of the release, not editorial endorsement by the host.
Market structure and consolidationTicket pricing and affordability dataFestival price and affordabilityTouring economicsVenue infrastructureFree Press Summer Fest archiveDay for Night archive
TestsetAug 24, 2026Independent editorial coverage
Omar Afra's Live Index Is Trying to Build the Data Layer the Concert Business Never HadSubject: Live Index and Omar Afra · By Farrah Mann
Feature on Live Index as a public research layer for concert economics: ticket affordability, festival pricing, touring, venues, employment and consolidation.
TechBullionAug 20, 2026Independent editorial coverage
Omar Afra: The Live Music Business Has Gone Full StackSubject: Live Index and Omar Afra
Recent feature on Live Index, live-music data infrastructure and the economics of independent touring and promotion.
How items are classified
- Independent editorial coverage
- Written and published by the host's own editorial staff, on its own decision.
- Interview
- A question-and-answer or quoted-remarks format, where the subject supplied the substance and the publisher supplied the questions and the editing. The publication, its date, its headline and its interviewer are external facts; the answers inside it are the subject's own statements. Interviews are counted separately from independent editorial coverage for that reason, and are never treated as third-party verification of what the subject says in them.
- Syndicated launch press release
- An announcement written by or for the subject and distributed through a wire service to hosts that carry it without reporting it. Recorded here in full, labelled, and never described as the host publication's reporting.
Record reviewed Aug 26, 2026. Corrections to any entry are handled under the corrections policy.