2 d. ago From Sidemen to MrBeast: how YouTube and its creator economy took over TV

Stars and their high-quality content enable streamers and others to pull in younger audiencesFrom MrBeast creating the world’s most expensive reality TV show and Jake Paul’s record-breaking clash with Mike Tyson to the British supergroup Sidemen’s Netflix deal, YouTube’s superstar creators are taking over mainstream television.Last month Netflix launched the second series of Inside, the Sidemen’s reality show that was a hit when the first run of episodes premiered on YouTube. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago World's most expensive places to take tourist pictures revealed

Many tourists snap photos without even thinking about it, but there are a few destinations where it could cost you more than you might think.

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4 d. ago Canary Island's most popular airport with 13m passengers using it every year

Gran Canaria Airport has been named one of the busiest airports in Spain, becoming a popular holiday destination for many Brits who want to disconnect from the hustle and bustle of the busy city life.

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5 d. ago Inside the 'world's most expensive airport' with £15 beers and bananas for a fiver

With a beer selling for €17.50 (£15), bananas selling at €6 (£5) a pop, Big Macs for €21.50 (£18.50), and the whopper — no, literally, Burger King’s Whopper going at a steep €22 (£19) — this airport has taken the word ‘pricey’ and given it a new meaning

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6 d. ago Is this the world's most expensive airport? The popular destination is selling €17.50 beers, €25 McDonald's and €6 bananas

Airports are notoriously expensive - but this one may be the dearest in the world, selling beer for €17.50 (£15), Big Macs for €21.50 (£18.50), and even bananas at €6 (£5) a pop.

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6 d. ago It’s official: London is one of the world’s top five most expensive cities

It’s official: London is one of the world’s top five most expensive cities  Time Out

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9 d. ago Huge upgrade set for Spanish airport with reputation for constant queues

A tiny yet popular airport, which has been branded 'chaotic and unorganised', has unveiled a huge plan to help slash long queues at border control - which impacts millions of Brits every single year

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9 d. ago Manchester Airport’s two most popular destinations in record

Manchester Airport reported its busiest March on record as it prepares for a bumper April

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1 week ago The three destinations ranking above Maldives as the most expensive countries to travel to revealed

These are the three destinations that rank above the Maldives as the world's most expensive countries to travel to.

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2 w. ago UK airport popular with holidaymakers to expand despite rejection recommendation

There has been opposition and a park will be destroyed to make room

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2 w. ago What everyday UK items are set to soar in price as Donald Trump reveals tariffs

Prices are set to rise in the UK after Donald Trump announced his 'Liberation Day' tariffs on goods from across the world - mortgages, cars and even tin foil could soon be more expensive

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3 w. ago Mark Zuckerberg's £230m superyacht with cinema and helipad spotted in Scots waters

The luxurious 387ft vessel is said to be one of the most expensive private yachts in the world.

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3 w. ago Kurt Cobain’s guitar from Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged show to go on display in UK

The Martin D-18E, played at renowned performance five months before singer’s suicide, sold for £4.8m in 2020The world’s most expensive guitar, which Kurt Cobain played in one of Nirvana’s most acclaimed performances – the MTV Unplugged in New York show – is to be displayed in the UK for the first time.The Royal College of Music in London has been loaned the Martin D-18E by its owner, Peter Freedman (the chair of Røde microphones), who bought the guitar for $6m (£4.8m) in 2020, making it the most expensive guitar ever sold at auction. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Bargain hunting in UK town home to the world's most expensive seaside street

Rosaleen Fenton wanting to look behind the headlines during a trip to Dorset's Poole, a town known for being home to 'Millionaires Row, one of the most expensive stretches of seaside property in the world

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3 w. ago Why bloated budgets mean open world games are starting to think small – but mighty

After years of soaring costs and ever-expanding maps, open world games are getting smaller, and developers are creating richer landscapes in the processFor more than 20 years the action adventure genre has been dominated by open-world games. They started in quite a constrained way, with titles such as Shenmue and Driver offering miniature cities to wander about, but during the 21st century, they grew to encompass whole kingdoms. Now we have titles such as Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Elden Ring and Death Stranding that contain vast and highly varied environments; Minecraft worlds are reportedly 60,000km wide. And let’s not forget space sims such as Elite Dangerous and No Man’s Sky, which effectively contain whole galaxies.This whole design model, however, is starting to seem a teeny bit unsustainable. Not only is it astonishingly expensive to build giant worlds (it’s rumoured that the forthcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 will cost in the region of $2bn), but the market is also sat...

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