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# Live Music Industry News: UK levy • NIVA Summit • NY Ticket Fees • Bandsintown • Ticketmaster
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/live-music-industry-news-6/
- Published: 2025-10-26T11:32:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-26T12:46:25.000Z
- Description: In the latest live music industry news, support for a levy to support UK grassroots venues is growing. The UK government endorses the plan as do many artists and most of the live music industry. Notably silent is Live Nation.
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Music Business, The Live Stage, NIVA, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:15

In last week’s live music industry news, support for a levy to **support UK grassroots venues** grew. The UK government endorses the plan as do many artists and most of the live music industry. Notably silent is **Live Nation**.

This week The Guardian came out in favor of the voluntary £1 ticket levy at major concerts: “a scheme to spread the sound around deserves support… More gigs would be a good thing, and a voluntary £1 levy for grassroots venues could help.”

Read the full piece [here](https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/23/the-guardian-view-on-live-music-a-scheme-to-spread-the-sound-around-deserves-support?ref=hypebot.com).

### More Live Music Industry News

![Nivalaine Policy Summit Indianapolis presented by Tixel, digital marketing conference for music industry innovation and live event strategies, 2023.](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/niva-live-policy-summit.png)

• The **National Independent Venue Association** (NIVA)and the **Indiana Independent Venue Alliance** (IIVA) just wrapped the inaugur**al NIVA Live Policy Summit**.

It followed the release of the [**State of Live**](https://www.hypebot.com/niva-state-of-live-how-us-independent-venues-power-local-economies/) economic research reports for 50 states and D.C.

The consensus from the Summit: **“a bipartisan movement toward face value ticket resale is the future.”**

“We will take the energy, passion, and creative ideas from this Summit and work to ensure that a monopoly, predatory ticket resellers, and multi-billion-dollar resale platforms never again dictate policies that have made for an abusive fan, small business, and non-profit experience in live entertainment for far too long,” said **Stephen Parker, Executive Director of NIVA.**

Read more of what happened at the **NIVA Live Policy Summit [here](https://www.nivassoc.org/statements/2025/inaugural-national-live-policy-summit-attracts-national-and-state-leaders-policymakers-live-professionals-from-25-states?ref=hypebot.com).**

![NITO live music](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/nito-logo-red-1-1-1.png)

• **NITO** shared a analysis of **New York State ticket fees**. Their findings showed the average primary ticket fee in New York State have now risen to 28.65% – an increase of more than 36% in less than a decade**.**

Primary market tickets priced at $40 or less carried a higher average fee of 35.5%. **Read the full study from the [National Independent Talent Association here](https://www.hypebot.com/content/files/nitolive-org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/nito-ny-ticket-fees-report-.pdf).**

![Bandsintown hits 100M registered users](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/spcdn-shortpixel-ai/spio/ret_img-q_cdnize/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/100-million-16x9-min.png)

• **Bandsintown** celebrated a major milestone: **100 million registered fan users** across 196 countries. Alongside strategic partnerships with ***S*potify, Google, YouTube, YouTube Music**, **Apple** and **Shazam**, Bandsintown’s total global reach is now more than **4.1 billion monthly active users.**

Read the full story and what it means for artists and venues [here](https://www.hypebot.com/bandsintown-hits-100m-registered-users-as-global-reach-tops-4-1b/).

![new Ticketmaster President DoJ FTC bots](https://storage.ghost.io/c/3a/95/3a957c06-c825-4057-9939-0a274cc16d23/content/images/www-hypebot-com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ticketmaster.png)

• **Ticketmaster** is shutting down its **TradeDesk** ticket resale platform and making other changes following an **FTC lawsuit.**

This move could change concert ticket resales, impact artists, and reshape the live event industry. **[Learn more](https://www.hypebot.com/ticketmaster-shuts-down-trade-desk-amid-ftc-scrutiny/).**

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*Bruce Houghton*