By: Francisco Rendon Courtesy Virtual Crowd MetallicaThe pandemic has brought creativity to the live experience, with innovations like Virtual Crowd, which debuted recently during a Metallica benefit performance, finding new ways to keep fans engaged during performances.2020 was by all accounts a year of great challenges, but it also spurred some incredible problem-solving and exciting advances in technology and business that will continue having an impact moving forward. Innovators like Pollstar cover subject D-Nice used the pandemic to create new kinds of content and grow their digital presence in ways that would likely never have been possible pre-pandemic. Some acts got very creative and reinvented what concerts could look like in light of current restrictions.