eResonate Media
Why Now
Why now
The internet never kept
a real place to be together.
a real place to be together.
2026 is the first year one can last.
The places that felt real
Didn’t last. Anyone could get in, so trust wore away.
The places that lasted
Stopped feeling real. Only a feed held people together.
eResonate
A person someone vouched for, and a moment that happens once, live.
1 · The feed stopped being social
Friends are 7%
of Instagram time.
of Instagram time.
Facebook
17%
Instagram
7%
Share of Americans’ time spent on content from friends, on Meta’s own data in FTC v. Meta (Nov 2025). Sharing has moved to group chats.
And the law is catching up
Courts are rewriting
the feed.
the feed.
Dec 2025
Australia bans social media for under-16s
Mar 2026
A Los Angeles jury holds Meta and YouTube liable
Aug 2026
Meta settles for up to $17.1B, with limits on teen feeds
Jan 2027
New York: time-ordered feeds by default for teens
What people want instead
74% rate in-person
above digital.
above digital.
18-to-35-year-olds in the US and UK (Eventbrite, Jan 2026). The group chat proves people still want each other. It just has nowhere to go.
2 · The machines arrived
Over half of new uploads
are AI-made.
are AI-made.
Share of tracks delivered to Deezer each day that are fully AI-generated, January 2025 to the June 2026 peak — about 90,000 tracks a day.
And no one can tell
97% can’t hear
the difference.
the difference.
AI uploads, peak
>50%
AI listening
1–3%
Deezer and Ipsos blind test of 9,000 listeners (Nov 2025). Up to 85% of streams of AI tracks in 2025 were fraud.
What that makes scarce
Proof of a person is
now the scarce thing.
now the scarce thing.
AI-generated
AI-assisted
● Live · in a real room
Since April 30, 2026, Spotify’s verification badge counts concert dates as proof that an artist is real.
3 · Live is the one moment machines can’t fake
Record demand.
Losing rooms.
Losing rooms.
Live Nation, 2025
159M fans
A record year. A stadium show grossed 19% more than in 2024.
Independent venues, 2024
64% lost money
In 2025 a room of 750 or fewer grossed 5% less a show.
Meanwhile
The rooms where scenes start
are closing.
are closing.
The Crowbar · Tampa
Closed July 31
The last independent full-time venue in Ybor City.
Bottom of the Hill · San Francisco
Closes December 31
Open since 1991.
Take every act that began in grassroots venues off the 2024 Reading & Leeds bill, and no headliners are left.
4 · The people who make the moments
Artists can’t live
on streams.
on streams.
88%
of tracks got 1,000 streams or fewer in 2025. Below that, Spotify pays no recording royalty.
74%
of independent artists earned under $1,000 from music last year.
82%
of independent artists can’t afford to tour.
US et al. v. Live Nation
The court fight stops
at 8,000 seats.
at 8,000 seats.
Mar 2026
The DOJ settles mid-trial; its decree covers venues of 8,000+ seats
Apr 2026
Jury: Ticketmaster illegally monopolizes major-venue ticketing
2027
Remedies, at the earliest
None of it reaches a 150-person room.
5 · The cost collapsed
$60,000 a show.
Now about $24.
Now about $24.
2020, per show
$60,000
2026, per show
$24
2020: a full ticketed production with 80–100 crew (Driift). 2026: delivering two hours to 200 viewers (Cloudflare), from a room kit of about $3,750–3,930 plus $62 a month.
Why it didn’t work before
A door with nothing behind it.
A stream instead of a room.
A stream instead of a room.
Path
A private network of 50 friends. Closed in 2018.
Clubhouse
Invite-only, then open to all in 2021. Cut more than half its staff in 2023.
Mandolin
Raised $17M for ticketed streams. Shut in April 2023.
Moment House
Ticketed livestream events. Sold to Patreon in 2023.
When venues reopened, viewers kept watching, but the share who paid fell back to pre-pandemic levels.
Why eResonate
16,500 rooms.
Already mapped.
Already mapped.
More than 16,500 rooms in more than 4,100 cities across the US and Canada, each with a page its venue can claim.
Every person, real
Everyone inside is
let in by someone.
let in by someone.
Invited
by a member. Each member has 10 invites.
Vouched for
by a member who knows them.
Approved
off the waitlist by the team.
The feed runs in time order, and no algorithm decides what you see. Watching a show needs no account.
Every artist, paid
Every dollar a performance earns
goes to the artist and the venue.
goes to the artist and the venue.
ARTIST
VENUE
they set the split before each showeResonate earns on the network around it
No setlist, no broadcast: each show’s songs feed reports to the rights societies, so writers can be paid.
Who builds it
The team is
in place.
in place.
Jerry Nettuno
CEO
Founded Schedulicity, the booking and payments platform for independent businesses.
Jeff Yapp
Chairman
Fox, and Viacom, where he led MTV, VH1 and CMT.
Gary Kucher
Founder
CEO of two-time Academy Award-winning Manex Entertainment.
Adam Blazer
Chief Streaming Officer
Founded Livit, whose patented streaming platform eResonate acquired.
Advisors: Bing Gordon, Shane Smith and Doc McGhee.
Why waiting costs
The giants are reaching
for the room.
for the room.
When
Who
The move
Sep 2026
Apple
Opened a 600-capacity London hall built so a show is also a global livestream
Jun 2026
Spotify & Live Nation
Launched Reserved: tickets held for top fans
Apr 2026
Spotify & NIVA
Venue pages that fans can follow
None of them is building a network where every member was let in by someone.
Why now
Come for the music.
Stay for each other.
Stay for each other.
A network like this grows only as fast as people invite the people they know. The first one to take hold in a scene is hard to catch.
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