Where culture meets capital. Intelligence for the architects of the global entertainment economy.

Funny Business: Who's Making Money in Stand Up?

My favourite stand up is the President of the United States, and I mean that purely as a trade observation. Few people alive produce more quotable material. A line, a tweet, an insult or a walk back. Within minutes, his clip is everywhere, shared by people who love him or

"If you stay on a Bull for 8 seconds and don't die, we'll give you a Million Dollars". Marc Lasry.

Marc Lasry sold his stake in the Milwaukee Bucks in 2023 and went looking for what comes next. His Avenue Sports Fund has now closed with more than $1 billion in commitments, targeting exactly the sports most traditional investors would have ignored, Sailing, Bull Riding, Indoor Golf, Women’s Basketball.

"The safest amount of alcohol is zero." — Andrew Huberman. The Cost of Sobriety, $830 Billion.

Heineken, AB InBev and Diageo are writing sovereign-sized cheques to sport while a generation stops drinking. The $830 billion cost of sobriety.

Dear Artist, Capital has a memory. It does not forget.

Sidhu Moosewala would be at Jantar Mantar. India's youth are protesting and its artists are missing. A letter on why capital remembers who stayed silent.

Pop Culture. Prediction Markets.

For 5,000 years humans have bet on outcomes, from Tutankhamun's Senet boards to today. Now pop culture is the market. How prediction markets price fandom.

Before the Whistle. $10.5 Billion Worth of Noise. FIFA 2026.

$10.5 billion in extra ad spend was out the door before the first whistle at Azteca. Who won the FIFA World Cup 2026 brand battle before kickoff.

The $54 Billion Pre -Professional Athlete Window. NIL?

NIL turned college athletes into businesses. The pre-professional athlete is the last underpriced window in global sport, and it is worth $54 billion.

The Celebrity Economy. Ten Names. Billions in Motion.

Paramount and Warner Bros. at $110B. PIF's $55B EA buyout. Ten names who moved billions this quarter, and why celebrity is now a capital class.

$64 Billion for Music. $10.9 Billion for Football. $600 Million Lost Per Day. Q1 2026 in Focus.

Q1 2026 was a stress test: UMG's $64B bid, FIFA's $10.9B, $600M lost per day. Where live-economy capital moved this quarter, and why.

At $2.78 Bn,The Live Economy has a New Champion. She wears Green and Gold.

74,397 in the stadium. 11.15 million on TV. $2.78 billion in media value. How the Matildas became Australia's newest live-economy franchise.

While You Were Watching Spotify, the World's Biggest Music Label Was Buying the Room. UMG is our next watch.

Hotels, beach clubs, Capitol Studios Dubai, a Twitch network. Since 2019 Universal Music Group has quietly built a live economy. This is what it looks like.

The Big 12: A Trillion Dollars. Twelve Names. One Direction.

Twelve entities control a trillion dollars of live entertainment. Not the artists on the covers. The Big 12 who actually set the direction.