Variety 500 Revealed: Meet the Most Powerful and Influential Leaders in Global Media and Entertainment
variety.comCynthia Littleton Business Editor If the first few days of January are any indication, 2025 is going to be a rock ‘em, sock ‘em year across the media and entertainment landscape.
In advance of Variety’s Entertainment Summit on Jan. 8 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas — our annual gathering where we assess the year that just wrapped and look ahead at what’s to come — today we formally unveil this year’s Variety 500.
This is our annual global compendium of showbiz leaders and movers and shakers across TV, film, music, gaming, digital media, entertainment-related technology and other Hollywood-adjacent disciplines.
In the eighth year of Variety 500, we’ve added two categories — Marketers and Podcasters/Audio — that reflect the crosscurrents of the business in 2025 and have become new sources of power for executives and creatives.
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