# Who does Live Nation Entertainment, Inc. pay? Who are its key suppliers?
Canonical: https://valuechain.wiki/live-nation-entertainment · Facet: suppliers · Updated: 2026-09-12T00:47:51.674456+00:00 · Source: ValueChain.wiki (cited money-flow graph)

**Citable summary**: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.'s confirmed suppliers/cost counterparties include JYP Entertainment, Amazon. Per the valuechain.wiki graph: 2 cost edges, backed by 4 dated sources, 0 of them primary filings (as of 2026-09-12).

### OCESA (high)
- metric: Amount $646M · additional 24% interest acquired in 2025 · Consideration for the additional 24% interest in OCESA
- note: Live Nation acquired an additional 24% of Mexican promoter OCESA in 2025, raising its ownership to 75%. Live Nation confirmed an approximately $646 million transaction value to the trade publication reporting the deal.
- [confirms] SEC EDGAR (EN, filing, published 2026-02-19) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1335258/000133525826000009/lyv-20251231.htm: "We also acquired an additional 24% interest in OCESA from CIE."
- [confirms] Music Business Worldwide (EN, news, published 2025-07-30) https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/live-nation-strikes-646-million-stake-in-mexicos-ocesa/: "The additional 24% in OCESA will cost just over MXN 12 billion, or USD 646 million."

### JYP Ent. (high)  → /jyp-entertainment.md
- note: Live Nation is JYP's multi-year partner for producing global tours by JYP artists. In North America, the arrangement combines a minimum guarantee with an overage profit share, making JYP and artist payments a direct concert cost to Live Nation.
- [confirms] iM Securities Research Center (KO, research, published 2025-03-26) https://www.paxnet.co.kr/WWW/data/researchCenter/attach/20250327082756792.pdf: "At the end of 2023, JYP entered a multi-year partnership with Live Nation to expand its global concert business."
- [confirms] JYP Entertainment (EN, ir, published 2023-11-15) https://main.d1dscofy6ffndp.amplifyapp.com/Board/Detail?gubun=irdata&jbst_sq=56: "The contract structure has shifted from MG only to MG plus R/S in the NA region."

### 아마존 (mid)  → /amazon.md
- note: AWS supplies cloud infrastructure to Ticketmaster, Live Nation's corporate IT, and selected festival operations. An AWS 2024 session revisited Live Nation's completed migration and reported a reduction in total cost of ownership.
- [confirms] Amazon Web Services (EN, analysis, published 2024-12-03) https://reinvent.awsevents.com/content/dam/reinvent/2024/slides/mam/MAM212_Accelerate-your-cloud-migration-A-leaders-guide-to-going-fast.pdf: "Live Nation went all-in with AWS and reduced TCO by 48%."
- [confirms] Amazon Newsroom (EN, news, published 2017-02-08) https://press.aboutamazon.com/2017/2/live-nation-selects-amazon-web-services-as-cloud-infrastructure-provider: "Live Nation has selected AWS as its public cloud infrastructure provider."

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