“We are tired of professional ticket touts abusing the ticket marketplace and stealing tickets out of fans’ hands, only to immediately relist them at inflated prices”: New survey finds that touts make £145 million each year from UK music fans

A crowd at a gig.

A new survey from Yougov has worked out that ticket touts cost UK music fans around £145 million each year.

The survey was commissioned by Virgin O2, who, of course, sponsor a number of venues around the country and sell tickets themselves via their own Priority platform.