Track Entertainment
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Track Entertainment is an entertainment and media company that connects brands and consumers through events, television, digital media, and lifestyle marketing. It is the parent company of several Web sites including lifestyle sites Clubplanet.com, nocheLatina.com, CoolJunkie.com; as well as ticketing solutions NewYears.com, NewYearsEve.com, and HalloweenParties.com.

Track's lifestyle marketing division specializes in connecting brands with general market and multicultural consumers through events, nightlife, and influencer programs. For example, Track produced the “Pepsi Smash” concert series, which included concerts with artists including Kanye West, T-Pain, Gwen Stefani, and Mariah Carey. Track services include event production, sponsorship activation, strategic partnerships, and nightlife sponsorship and product seeding.

The company is located in New York City at 825 Third Avenue 27th Floor.

History

Originally called “Track Marketing,” the company was founded in 1986. It was sold to Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group
Warner Music Group is the third largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry, making it one of the big four record companies...

 in 1990. Two years later, Track was purchased back from Warner Music Group. During this time the firm focused primarily on music/concert productions. In 2002, Track merged with the nightlife Web site Clubplanet.com to form "Track Entertainment," then adding the ticketing website Wantickets to its portfolio in 2003 (which was subsequently sold to River North in 2011). In 2004, Track purchased CoolJunkie.com, a Miami-based nightlife/lifestyle site. Track launched its first multicultural site, nocheLatina.com, in 2005.

Clients

Track’s clients include Pepsi, Aquafina, Heineken, Lipton
Lipton
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 Brisk, Mountain Dew
Mountain Dew
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, Sierra Mist
Sierra Mist
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, T-Mobile.

Past Artists and Concerts

  • Kanye West
    Kanye West
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  • Sting
  • Gwen Stefani
    Gwen Stefani
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  • Green Day
    Green Day
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  • Dixie Chicks
    Dixie Chicks
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  • Brooks and Dunn
  • Shakira
    Shakira
    Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll , known professionally as Shakira , is a Colombian singer who emerged in the music scene of Colombia and Latin America in the early 1990s...

  • Velvet Revolver
    Velvet Revolver
    Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...

  • Outkast
    OutKast
    Outkast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, consisting of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin and Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. They were originally known as Two Shades Deep but later changed the group's name to OutKast...

  • All American Rejects
  • Sean Paul
    Sean Paul
    Sean Paul Ryan Francis Henriques , who performs under stage name Sean Paul, is a Jamaican pop rap and reggae singer.-1973–1996: Early life:...

  • Talib Kweli
    Talib Kweli
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  • Tiësto
    Tiësto
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  • Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails
    Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

  • Don Omar
    Don Omar
    Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey Don Omar, also known as El Rey (born William Omar Landrón Rivera; February 10, 1978, is a Puerto Rican Reggaetón singer and actor.-Early life:...

  • Kinky
    Kinky
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  • Juanes
    Juanes
    Juan Esteban Aristizábal Vásquez , better known as Juanes is a Colombian musician who was a member of heavy metal band Ekhymosis and is now a solo artist. In 2000, his solo debut album Fíjate Bien won three Latin Grammy Awards.Juanes has sold more than 13 million albums...

  • Mana
    Mana
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