Ticket tout bill branded as ‘not enough’ as Labour confirms crackdown Tech After months of pressure from the music industry and furious fans, Labour has confirmed plans for a sweeping crackdown on ticket touting as part of Wednesday’s King’s Speech. But reforms may still be years away from becoming law. The draft Ticket Tout Ban Bill would make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above [...]
Forget Oasis, dynamic pricing could be coming for your weekly shop Opinion The rise of big data means dynamic pricing is easier to implement. Paul Ormerod asks what this could mean for consumers's everyday shopping.
UK consumers cut spending amid wider economic nerves Economics UK consumers’ debit and credit card spending slumped in 2025 for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic as wider economic nerves knocked confidence. Card spending fell 0.2 per cent in the last 12 months, according to Barclays, a sharp contrast to the 1.6 per cent growth recorded in 2024. Just a quarter of British [...]
Ticket touts exploit Coldplay, Oasis, Billie Eilish demand December 28, 2025 Coldplay, Oasis and Billie Eilish were the most touted artists of 2025, with fans paying up to £800 per ticket on resale sites, according to new research from O2. The telecoms giant, which sold 1.7 million live event tickets via its ‘Priority’ platform last year, warned that the booming secondary market is leaving millions of [...]
Ticket touts face UK crackdown after Oasis outrage November 18, 2025 UK ministers are set to outlaw the resale of tickets for live events at prices above their original face value, in a move aimed at tackling professional touts and secondary ticket platforms like Viagogo and StubHub. The crackdown, due to be announced this week, represents the most aggressive intervention yet in a market long criticised [...]
Premier Inn investors eye Oasis boost in earnings report October 11, 2025 Investors in Premier Inn’s owner will be hoping the UK’s largest hotel chain has been given a summer boost on the back of rising hotel prices and fans flocking to UK concerts. Whitbread, which also owns the Beefeater and Brewers Fayre chains, will publish its half-year financial results on Thursday. A group of analysts for [...]
Oasis fans’ supersonic spending tops Swifties in economic boom September 26, 2025 Oasis fans have topped the economic boost of Taylor Swift, with spending reaching over £5m at their first Wembley concert this year. The ‘Gallaghernomics’, as dubbed by Lloyds in their Market Intelligence analysis, have surpassed ‘Swiftonomics’ by 38 percent. The Oasis concert on 25 July 2025 generated £5.1m revenue in Wembley and within a one-mile [...]
Ticketmaster forced to change sales practices after Oasis ticket row September 25, 2025 Ticketmaster has been forced to introduce new transparency measures following a probe into the way it sold tickets for Oasis’s highly anticipated reunion tour. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the ticketing giant will now have to give fans clearer information about prices and ticket types, following widespread complaints during last year’s ‘Live ’25’ [...]
A little patriotism can be a force for good – and a boon for business September 23, 2025 When done without alienating others, patriotism can be a force for good and a boon for business, writes Outernet CEO Philip O'Ferrall.
Bank of England may face lower inflation despite ‘Oasis bump’ August 18, 2025 Bank of England forecasts on inflation for July could be too high despite suggestions Oasis concerts could make prices jump, forecasters have said. The Bank’s last Monetary Policy Report took a gloomy view on the state of the UK economy as it claimed inflation would hit 3.8 per cent in the month of July. But [...]