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Kantar acquires majority stake in data visualisation and interactive specialist Guardian Digital Agency, in the UK

Mecom shareholders will receive 155 pence per share in cash, representing a premium of 35 percent to the stock’s closing price on Friday

ECI Partners has invested in ATG Media, a global pioneer of webcast and timed online auction platforms

Ten Alps has significantly cut its losses, despite revenues falling 12.7% to £12.4m in the first half of its financial year

Evgeny Lebedev’s publishing company boosted by digital and cut-price i, as Evening Standard’s free strategy also pays off

C&IT’s Top 50 events agencies are ranked by 2013 UK event-based turnover, and this year’s table has seen several big climbers and a number of new entries

C&IT’s Top 50 events agencies are ranked by 2013 UK event-based turnover, and this year’s table has seen several big climbers and a number of new entries

Routes MENA will become part of the global Routes portfolio organised by UBM Live, which includes World Routes; Routes Asia; Routes Europe; Routes Americas; Routes CIS/Silk Road; Routes Africa and Routesonline

MTM research on behalf of the IAB shows that programmatic is forecast to account for nearly half (47%) of digital display ads in 2014 up from 28% IN 2013

Perseus is being sold off in an unusual three-way deal

Perseus is being sold off in an unusual three-way deal

A new site called Tom Kabinet sells secondhand ebooks. Publishers say this is illegal, and with a deadline passing on Friday the case looks set to go to court.

VICE Media is talking with potential buyers including News Corp.

IMS Health has paid €385m to acquire several of Cegedim’s information solutions and customer relationship management (CRM) businesses. The deal is expected to be competed in early 2015 at which point IMS Health, which provides information and technology services to the healthcare industry, will take control of a Cegedim CRM portfolio that covers 80 countries […]

In a trading update at its AGM WPP reported like for like revenue growth of 7.6% but margins were 2.5% weaker sending its share price down today. In summary: WPP reported revenues for first five months up 1.2% at £4.425 billion in sterling, up 9.5% at $7.370 billion in dollars and up 4.5% at €5.365 […]

Ashfield Healthcare Communications this week announced a partnership with Ohio-based Within3, a specialist in enabling healthcare collaboration

Consumers are now accessing news via the web and mobile apps just as much as print for the first time, according to telecoms regulator Ofcom. 41 per cent of people say they now access news on websites and apps, a substantial increase from 32 per cent in 2013. The number of people who say they […]

British newspapers have long had a snooty attitude towards this country’s £20bn-a-year advertising industry.

Immediate Media has moved the show to the NEC from Olympia after previoulsy announcing the launch odf a Scottish edition at the SECC

Analysts have very bullish ratings on IPG and have been raising their earnings estimates for 2014