Secaucus, NJ-based Northstar Travel Group has acquired the assets of L.A.-based Schneider Publishing, including a trio of annual events and a pair of related media brands, the company announced today.
Japanese advertising giant Dentsu has agreed to buy US digital marketer Leapfrog. The Tokyo-based company said it would acquire a 100 per cent stake in Leapfrog, whose proprietary LFX Conversion Platform aims to optimise the consumer experience via channels ranging from social media to physical stores. Leapfrog, which is headquartered in Illinois, generated revenue of $32m in the 12 months ended December 2016 and employs 150 people, most of who are software engineers and data scientists
Press Release: Reed Business Information (RBI) has announced today that it has agreed to divest New Scientist and its associated products and events to Kingston Acquisitions Limited, a company established by the former management team of Times Educational Supplement. Terms were not disclosed.
The Times has seen subscriptions sales jump 200 percent in the last year, since it pivoted from publishing on a breaking-news cycle to a digital editions-based publishing strategy a year ago. Subscriber churn is also at a record low, down 4 percentage points compared to the previous year, according to Catherine Newman, chief marketing officer at The Times and Sunday Times. Last summer, total print and digital paying subscribers rested at 413,600, according to the publisher. And in the first half of 2016, new paying-subscriber sales rose 200 percent compared to the first half of 2015
Press Release: The Board of Centaur Media Plc (LSE: CAU), the business to business information, insight and events group, announces that it has commenced a process to explore the sale of its Home Interest portfolio
Press Release: Incisive Media has sold its Insight division, which includes the Risk.net and Insurance Post brands, to French business-to-business (B2B) publisher Infopro Digital. The acquisition deal completes on the 13th of April 2017
Over the past five years, Google and Facebook have cut a conquering swath through the market for digital advertising, snatching ever more business from legacy media companies, such as print newspapers and magazines. But a growing scandal involving the inadvertent placement of ads next to extremist content on Google’s YouTube video has raised questions about whether the balance of power is about to shift again.
Press Release: SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. – January 26, 2017 – Emerald Expositions, LLC, a leading U.S. business-to-business trade show and conference producer, today announced its acquisition of the CEDIA trade show from the Custom Electronics Design & Installation Association
Press Release: SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. – March 13, 2017 – Emerald Expositions, LLC (“Emerald”), a leading U.S. business-to-business trade show and conference producer, today announced its acquisition of the International Drone Conference and Exposition (“InterDrone”), the largest commercial unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) trade show and conference in North America, from BZ Media LLC.
The parent company of American tabloid the National Enquirer has agreed to scoop up celebrity magazine Us Weekly for $100m. American Media’s purchase of Us Weekly will give the group a deeper foothold in the popular culture arena that is in vogue among young readers. Us Weekly sells about 1.95m paid copies per week and its website is visited by 22m visitors a month, American Media said in a statement. The magazine was founded in 1977 by the New York Times company, and was acquired eight years later by Wenner Media, the publisher of Rolling Stone magazine.
Tinopolis, the company behind TV shows including Question Time and Crufts and producer of BT’s Premier League and Champion’s League coverage, is up for sale with a price tag of up to £300m
Communications International Group (CIG), a leading pharmacy media and training solutions provider, has added 40,000 individuals to its online community overnight with the acquisition of Pharmacy Forum
Havas Group is acquiring Agence79 to strengthen its expertise in transferring classic media and content to digital platforms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Ultima Media Limited is a provider of intelligence and networking to the global automotive industry with principle brands Automotive Logistics, Automotive Manufacturing Solutions and Car Design News.
Demand still far outstrips supply when it comes to premium digital video. That’s a challenge for advertisers – but it’s a hell of an opportunity for publishers
Newspaper publisher Tronc is in discussions to buy Us Weekly from Wenner Media, according to sources close to the situation. The deal is rumored to be in the range of $90 million.
Publishers need to find additional sources of revenue and, worryingly, the new generation of so-called “distributed content” services, which held such promise a year ago, are not cutting the mustard. Services such as Facebook Instant Articles, Apple News and Google Accelerated Mobile Pages were supposed to make it easier for publishers to monetise their journalism.
An investment group backed by Edgar Bronfman Jr, former chief executive of Warner Music, Len Blavatnik, the billionaire owner of Warner Music Group, and Ynon Kreiz, who ran Maker Studios, will not pursue an acquisition because of a valuation gap, people said who were familiar with the situation.
Specialist exhibitions and publications business Quartz Coatings Ltd has been acquired by DMGT’s international exhibition and publishing company, dmg events.
Informa has launched a review of five of its conference businesses on the back of a 4.1% organic revenue decline. The company said the revenue dip followed restructuring in its conference businesses in Scandinavia, the Netherlands and Russia.
