We’re entering an era where the biggest, sold-outest festivals use livestreams as a core part of their strategy to reach larger audiences online, and build their brands globally. Two announcements yesterday continue the trend.
Tag: Live Music
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UK’s Heritage Live festivals cancelled due to ‘impossible’ finances
Heritage Live was a well-established series of music festivals in the UK held on historical country estates, with this year’s lineups including Christina Aguilera, Janet Jackson, Lionel Richie, Scissor Sisters, The Streets and Richard Ashcroft.
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UK government launches ‘Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music’
As it awaits the appointment of a new prime minister, the UK’s government has announced ‘Turn It Up: Our Plan for Music’.
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UK music-tourism spending saw double-digit growth in 2025
The big stars were out in force touring the UK last year, and the country’s music-tourism revenues spiked accordingly – something quantified in the latest report by industry body UK Music. […]
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Three live marketing trends in 2026 (Udo Lindenberg, Rosalía, Zara Larsson & Avery Cochrane)
1. Artist exhibitions. Promoter Semmel Concerts recently chatted to Pollstar about the growth of this latest non-concert format, calling it “one of the most exciting developments in live”. Udoversum is […]
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Gen-Z are outspending millennials on live music in the US
Luminate’s latest data-drop focuses on live music, and specifically on spending patterns in the US.
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‘AI-native’ Indian ticketing platform thumpN aims to put ‘discovery first’
Indian “AI-native” and “discovery-first” ticketing platform thumpN has launched. The platform’s key feature is an AI agent named Shadow.
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Country star Luke Combs played to over 60,000 fans… in Sweden
Country music’s growing global appeal is well known, but here’s the latest snapshot: Luke Combs played to 60,826 people in Gothenburg’s Ullevi Stadium on Saturday (4 July). According to promoter […]
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AI-powered live-music firm Gotobeat expands to arena shows
Startup Gotobeat launched in 2024 with its AI-powered ticketing platform and promotion for live music, using the technology to predict the demand for emerging artists and help them sell out […]
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Live Nation to livestream Pitbull’s bald-cap world-record attempt
Pitbull’s BST Hyde Park concert this July in London won’t just be a collection of bangers from Mr Worldwide’s back catalogue.
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GigLogic is a “gig intelligence platform” to help artists evaluate live gig income
Touring, as every artist knows, is a tough game. Uncertainty is high, margins are razor thin, and once an artist deducts piffling luxuries like, erm, accommodation and food from their […]
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Diljit Dosanjh breaks own record with North American leg of ‘Aura’ tour
Attendance and revenue figures for tours by Indian acts are hard to come by. Among the exceptions are the record-breaking runs by Diljit Dosanjh. The 15-date, 13-city North American leg […]
