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If your TikTok feed looks anything like ours, you\u2019ve probably seen videos of people surprising their dads with tickets to the Oasis reunion tour since it was first announced. Now that the tour is officially underway and brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher are performing together again, said dads are donning Adidas bucket hats and having emotional experiences watching Oasis perform\u2014as their kids continue to document them online.<\/p>\n
Simply put: The Oasis reunion can\u2019t be ignored, making it no surprise, then, that brands quickly got involved.<\/p>\n
In June, Adidas announced a collaboration with the band that included a new campaign as well as an apparel collection featuring 26 co-branded pieces to be sold online and at tour stops. Also in June, Amazon debuted its Oasis fan store with exclusive merch and limited-edition items in tandem with a curated Oasis playlist from Amazon Music.<\/p>\n
Spotify got into the mix in mid-July with its own campaign, \u201cThis is\u2026An Oasis Fan,\u201d a fan portrait series that was used for out-of-home ads in Manchester, London, Edinburgh, and Dublin, as well as a film of fans talking about how much the band means to them. Just this week, Oasis announced the locations of fan store locations in North America ahead of the first gig on the continent on August 24 in Toronto.<\/p>\n
For marketers and agency execs, the Oasis reunion presents a unique opportunity to tap into a tour that\u2019s become a rare cultural force, even while the famously volatile relationship between the Gallagher brothers could present potential challenges for companies tying up with the tour. But working with artists is no easy feat, marketers told us, and can take months of special consideration to determine whether there\u2019s a genuine fit.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just any reunion, right? It\u2019s like the biggest reunion in the last decade,\u201d Billie Baier, co-head of marketing, Spotify UK and Republic of Ireland, told Marketing Brew.<\/p>\n
Baier said the Spotify campaign isn\u2019t without a level of uncertainty, considering the Gallagher brothers\u2019 tumultuous history and their very public feud. But that\u2019s all part of the fun, making the reunion more enticing for fans; it comes with the potential for a curveball.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith any campaign, there\u2019s always a risk,\u201d Baier said. \u201cAnything could happen at any time, but you\u2019ve got to take the risks that you believe in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Paul Furia, who previously worked in entertainment marketing at talent agency William Morris and now serves as head of content and creative packaging at Media by Mother, said that to mitigate that risk for brands, agencies and talent representatives likely negotiated with that in mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is where the recovering agent in me would answer: You will have strong protections in your contract,\u201d Furia told Marketing Brew. \u201cIf anything were to truncate this, you would get your money back, or you would get your money back plus penalties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spotify\u2019s Oasis campaign was in the works for roughly six months, Baier told us, and the marketing team decided to focus its efforts on celebrating fans of the band. Spotify then worked with Oasis\u2019s label and management teams, which provided archived footage, video, and memorabilia to support a one-day immersive gallery activation in London dedicated to Oasis in late July, Baier said.<\/p>\n
The company declined to share its overall media spend for the campaign, but Baier noted that it was one of its biggest marketing moments for the year for music in the UK.<\/p>\n
\u201cOasis is a British story. It\u2019s a Manchester story, and it travels around the world,\u201d Baier said. \u201cThe strength of the anticipation and the reach of the Oasis fandom globally makes [it] a super exciting story for us to tell from a UK perspective, especially in celebrating those fans and putting them in front of and center.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oasis\u2019s management team and Adidas did not respond to requests for comment. Amazon declined to comment.<\/p>\n
In general, marketers looking to advertise around a musical act\u2019s tour will start by finding the best fit for their brand rather than aiming for the biggest possible get, Furia explained. Questions about the artist like, \u201cDo they align with your audience?\u201d and, \u201cDo they share your values?\u201d will come first followed by considerations like scale, reach, price, notoriety, and venue size.<\/p>\n
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In the case of Oasis, there\u2019s particular value that the \u201ccultural zeitgeist\u201d of the tour comes from \u201cartists of their age,\u201d said Rick Faigin, executive vice president for Acceleration Brand Advisory\u2014value that could help the tour stand out with brands looking to target slightly older audiences.<\/p>\n
Once artist and brand details align, marketers and agency partners usually suss out how the partnership can be beneficial for fans of the act, whether that\u2019s serving as a utility (like a brand sponsoring power-charging banks at festivals like Coachella for example) or providing something more integral to the story of the tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou also don\u2019t want to be a logo slap, right?\u201d Furia said. \u201cA lot of times, when you speak directly with the talent or the manager or the promoter, there\u2019s usually a story that goes along with the tour\u2026and if you can align yourself with the narrative of what that show is going to be, that\u2019s a multiplier.\u201d<\/p>\n
For bigger tours, marketers could work a year or more in advance of when a campaign will roll out, but the timeline can depend on when in the tour cycle the brand activates their marketing. Brands that have more experience sponsoring tours may get involved with as little as a few weeks ahead of time, Faigin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are a brand that you know it\u2019s important for you to be part of the announcement of the tour and part of the offer you need to be much further upstream,\u201d he said, adding that financial services brands offering early access to ticket sales typically need to button up details early.<\/p>\n
Cost may vary depending on terms including exclusivity, length, territories, sponsorship level, original content creation, total number of assets, media days with the artist, and exclusive experiences. Faigin estimated that the cost could range anywhere from low six figures to seven figures or even eight figures for some artists.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of it depends on what your value [is as a brand], what you\u2019re bringing to the table from a value standpoint for the artist,\u201d Faigin said. \u201cIf you are selling your tickets, they like that. If you\u2019re putting advertising behind the offer or behind the tour, they like that, too. So you may pay less in a sponsorship fee and say, \u2018Look, we\u2019re going to put $500,000 or a million dollars into working media around the tour,\u2019 and, depending on the artist, that might be very attractive.\u201d<\/p>\n
That said, he noted, brands typically believe there\u2019s more benefit in sponsoring festivals like Lollapalooza or Coachella compared to an individual tour.<\/p>\n
For brands, the cultural interest in the reunion has already had an effect. Following the reunion\u2019s first show on the weekend of July 5, Oasis streams were up 400% in the UK and 320% globally on Spotify, according to internal data shared with Marketing Brew. It\u2019s not just relegated to Gen X and millennial dads: the platform also found that there have been over 16.6 million \u201cuser discoveries\u201d of Oasis so far in 2025, with more than 50% of those from Gen Z users.<\/p>\n
The Adidas collection initially sold out, but has been restocked, and some of the hottest items (read: the bucket hat) have sold out multiple times. Tickets for the reunion tour have also been notoriously difficult to get: In North America, tickets were reportedly sold out within an hour.<\/p>\n
The hype, combined with continued uncertainty of how long the Oasis reunion might last, likely makes it all the more appealing for brands to show up and celebrate along with die-hard fans.<\/p>\n
\u201cReunions sell, nostalgia sells, this one specifically because it was one of those bands that none of us thought would get back together,\u201d Furia said. \u201cThat scarcity element is so important.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n