Live Nation’s Growing Influence: AAI’s Kathleen Bradish Raises Antitrust Concerns, Drawing Parallels with Big Tech Practices

The Hill’s article, Live Nation doubled lobbying spending to $2.4M in 2023 amid antitrust threat, highlights the concerns raised by AAI’s Kathleen Bradish on Live Nation’s growing influence, comparing it to big tech companies leveraging power in one area to stifle competition in another. From the article:

“What we’re seeing is Live Nation starting to create an ecosystem just like we’ve seen with a lot of the big tech companies using its power in one area to foreclose competition in another area,” said Kathleen Bradish, acting president at the American Antitrust Institute and former assistant chief and international counsel in the antitrust division of the Justice Department, during a discussion with AELP last Tuesday.