We are back from another year of Licensing Expo at Las Vegas! Thanks to our regular TLL subscribers as well as our new members for stopping by our booth. We are currently processing all new newsletter subscriptions, so please keep an eye on your inbox for updates! Please note that the 10% Show Discount is still available through the end of June—contact Jen at … [Read more...] about Expo Wrap-up: Fighting FOMO With Innovation
Licensing Expo 2018
Retail: Shifting Towards 360 Degree Distribution
From the floor of Licensing Expo Las Vegas, Amazon is demanding an outsized role in the licensing business. Its VP Nicholas Denissen, this year’s keynote speaker, opened the show with the claim that the ecommerce giant will balloon licensed retail sales to $1 trillion over the next 10 years. The online retail giant is pushing its Merch Collab service to licensors, licensees, … [Read more...] about Retail: Shifting Towards 360 Degree Distribution
Ask Us About Guarantees
This year at Licensing Expo Las Vegas and earlier in the year in connection with TLL's Annual Licensing Business Survey, we had a lot of people asking about the $1 million guarantee—by most measures, an astronomical and abnormal amount to be demanded in consumer products licensing agreements. Even some major licensees that are paying out multi-million dollar royalties eschew … [Read more...] about Ask Us About Guarantees