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database of casting notices, interactive audition lists, casting coverage in every state in the U.S., and an advanced headshot and resume talent database, among other new options, some of the first online tools ever developed for actors and casting directors. The number of new casting notices listed on Backstage.com each week expanded from the hundreds to the thousands over the next few years, while monthly site traffic increased from the hundreds-of-thousands to the millions.
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Elish, was a leader in taking the casting industry online. Its early products included a paid member's area, which charged $ 9.95 per month for unlimited access to articles and casting calls across New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Florida, Las Vegas, and other key entertainment-industry hubs. The monthly fee also entitled subscribers to inclusion in the website's first iteration of a headshot and resume database.
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hosted classes, workshops, and networking events through its Backstage University brand, and sponsors numerous events and panels for talent working in the fields of film, television, commercials, radio/voice-overs, theatre, dance, modeling, and club talent (comedians, singers, etc.). Its "Successful
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after 34 years. However, co-founder Ira Eaker's daughter, former longtime Backstage editor-in-chief Sherry Eaker, carried on her father's work as Backstage's editor at large, along with editor-at-large David Sheward, who left his executive editor position at Backstage after working for the brand for
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s print publications, the website's scope continued to expand to include more online-exclusive casting notices and original online-only news stories, feature articles, entertainment-industry listings, and reviews. During this time period, several competitors challenged the brand, but it remained the
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Backstage’s casting department reviews and publishes more than 30,000 casting notices on Backstage.com every year, for projects that range from major studio and network productions and Broadway shows to indie and student films. By monitoring the notices, Backstage is able to quickly work to protect
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features a different actor on its cover every week with original photography, along with entertainment-industry news and advice columns. Previous cover subjects have included Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Jennifer Lawrence, Lupita Nyong’o, and Eddie Redmayne. Backstage.com
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information, casting calls/casting notices, training opportunities, and entertainment-industry jobs, news, and interviews. Film and theatre were the main topics reviewed and reported upon, but the television, radio, dance, music, cabaret, voice-over, modeling, commercial advertising, and stand-up
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Beginning in the late 1990s, a number of casting information and entertainment job websites began cropping up, offering specialized online tools for actors, performers, and models, including online casting submission systems and video-enhanced resumes. Backstage.com, introduced by Publisher Steve
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In January 2013, Backstage LLC acquired Sonicbids, a service designed to help musicians find gigs, for $ 15 million. In April 2013, Prometheus Global Media, now fully owned by Guggenheim, bought the remainder of Backstage LLC. John Amato was made president of the Billboard Group, a new unit that
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Starting in 2000, writer-editor-filmmaker and web-developer Luke Crowe joined the company, and began working on the development of online casting tools for Backstage. Over the next few years, Backstage.com introduced options for casting directors to self-post breakdowns, a searchable acting-jobs
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Former publishers include Steve Elish, Jeff Black, and Charlie Weiss. Former lead editors include Sherry Eaker, Rob Kendt, Jamie Painter Young, Daniel Holloway, Dany Margolies, Tom Penketh, Erik Haagensen, Roger Armbrust, Leonard Jacobs, David Fairhurst, Andrew Salomon, Dan Lehman, dance editor
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changed from "The Performing Arts Weekly" to "The Actor's Resource." A secondary branding slogan, "Casting You Can Trust—Since 1960" was also added and given prominent placement both on Backstage.com and on the front covers of the weekly East Coast and West Coast newspaper/magazine versions of
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also features a series of advice columns written by industry insiders called Backstage Experts, offering aspiring and working actors the know-how to find work and improve their craft. There are also features on different acting schools, coaches, and theater companies around the country.
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would continue to "serve the news and information needs of creative and production decision-makers at ad agencies, and executives & artisans in the production industry" (according to their official press materials found on ShootOnline.com). To emphasize the change, the official
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opened a Los Angeles bureau and began to more actively extend its casting and editorial coverage across the U.S., with correspondents based in Boston, Florida, Chicago, London, and other key entertainment-industry-centric areas added to the Backstage roster over the
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Owing to the disparity between its main areas of coverage—a focus on casting and entertainment-industry job opportunities, general coverage of the performing arts (acting, legitimate theatre, cabaret, etc.), and its expanding coverage of the commercial production
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In October 2011, media entrepreneur John Amato led Backstage through a spin-off from Prometheus Global Media as part of a new strategic partnership, with the new company being called Backstage, LLC. Prometheus shareholder
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In 2006, a company called Valcon Acquisition B.V., run by a private equity group consortium, bought VNU, making Valcon the new owner of Backstage and all other VNU holdings. Then, on January 18, 2007, VNU rebranded itself
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produced annual Actorfest trade shows, entertainment-industry networking events held in various cities. Past Actorfest events took place in New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Detroit. Other
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was divested by Prometheus to a group led by John Amato, who relaunched the print and digital publications. After being briefly being re-acquired by Prometheus, it was sold to RZ Capital in 2013.
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also launched a number of blogs around this time, including Blog Stage, Espresso, Backstage Unscripted, and The Backstage 411 Casting FAQ, all of which were discontinued in early 2012.
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In December 2016, Backstage expanded its online casting tools and editorial coverage to include a wider international scope, with an initial focus on casting in the United Kingdom.
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s editorial coverage, especially in the areas of theater criticism, cabaret, dance, union news, and advice columns for performers. Sherry Eaker also fostered a relationship between
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and other entertainment-industry trade publications. Backstage would become involved in a number of other acquisitions, mergers, spin-offs, and sales over the next few decades.
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were permanently combined into a single weekly publication with an expanded national focus. This new "national edition" was given the same name as the original 1960 edition:
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was relaunched again, with the magazine switching from a tabloid-sized newspaper to a smaller, full-color glossy magazine (and also being slightly rebranded from
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imprint Backstage Books), casting-director mailing labels, and special "insert" magazines (such as award-season nomination guides, theatre-school guides, and the
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along with a few other related brands, were grouped together within BPI, becoming its film and performing arts division, a group designed to compete with
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also carved out its own industry niche by focusing on the needs of actors, models, performers, and casting directors; publishing directories (such as
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actors from scams, while facilitating the distribution of hundreds of thousands of performance opportunities via a suite of online casting tools.
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magazine for actors interested in making their own movies); producing live events; and continuing the development of Internet casting technology.
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Jennie Schulman (who wrote for Backstage for over 40 continuous years, starting with its first issue on Dec. 2, 1960), film and television editor
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writers and editors included managing casting editor Melinda Loewenstein and supervising casting editor Veronika Daddona, among many others.
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but with a focus on the West Coast acting community and casting opportunities based in California. At the time, despite past efforts,
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compiled information on casting directors, agents, managers, production companies, and upcoming film and television productions.
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series that combined film screenings with Q&A sessions featuring key actors and directors from each film being shown.
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reach began to slowly spread across the U.S., although the largest portion of its readership remained on the East Coast.
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s development, and in October 2005 Backstage relaunched its print and online publications in order to regain its edge.
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eventually incorporated the film and video production elements of its coverage into a weekly pull-out section called
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owner BPI. VNU eventually came to own a variety of trade publications—including all of the BPI magazines as well as
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tagline "The complete service weekly for the communications and entertainment industry" was switched to
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publisher Steve Elish hired a West Coast editor-in-chief, Rob Kendt, to help create a new publication,
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During this 2005 relaunch process, all Backstage publications were redesigned (including
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industry leader. However, the competition eventually sparked major changes in Backstage
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to expand its listings to include a wider variety of entertainment-industry contacts.
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In October 2017, Backstage launched its first fully integrated mobile casting app.
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honoring the cabaret industry, especially NYC-based cabaret; and the bi-coastal
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was bought by Billboard Publications Inc. (BPI), owner of such publications as
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included vice president and national casting editor Luke Crowe. At that time,
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in New York City in December 1960 as a weekly tabloid-sized newspaper called
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a sort of mini-publication with a special focus on the commercials industry.
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The publication was founded in, and originally focused primarily on
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Around 1977, co-founder Ira Eaker's daughter, Sherry Eaker, joined
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In February 2021, Backstage acquired StarNow and Mandy Network.
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brand remained closely tied to its primary sister publications,
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newspaper; but, having been turned down, they decided to launch
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concentrate on actors, performing artists, and theatre, while
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In addition to encompassing all of the content from Backstage
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In early 2007, VP/Group Publisher Steve Elish retired from
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and its historical antecedent, the British-based newspaper
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industry from the perspective of performers, unions, and
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casting newspaper, which was founded by Leo Shull as
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