In 2005, Mercuriadis was featured on the cover of Billboard magazine with Elton John. He delivered the keynote speech at the Pollstar CIC awards in 2005. In a 2017 article published by Music Business International Mercuriadis wrote: "Our job as managers isn’t to do what we want to do, it’s to do what the artist wants to do. Our job is to facilitate their vision for themselves and to help bring it to fruition."
