Festival share
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British Summer Time
All Points East
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Festivals owned by Live
Nation include Creamfields,
Isle of Wight Festival, Parklife,
and many more. Other major
festival owners include
Global/Broadwick Live, which
owns Boardmasters, Festival
no. 6 and SW4, as well as AEG,
which owns All Points East
and British Summer Time.
The AIF says 20% of
UK festivals over 5,000
capacity are members of
their organisation, which
comprises 65 independent
festivals.
Live Nation also owns
Ticketmaster, the world’s
largest ticketing company,
which controls an estimated
46% of the top 61 venue box
offices in the UK and sells 500
million tickets worldwide
annually.
The Association of Independent Festivals has
published a festival ownership map, which shows
American corporation Live Nation owns over 25% of
UK festivals with higher than 5,000 capacity.