Marcoms group Dentsu Aegis has acquired Geneva, Switzerland-based digital agency blue-infinity, which offers a range of integrated marketing, CRM, commerce, retail, tracking, and analytics services. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Press Release: Exponent Private Equity (“Exponent”) today announces that it has agreed to sell Immediate Media Co (“Immediate”) to Hubert Burda Media for an undisclosed sum. Immediate is the UK’s leading and fastest-growing special interest content and platform company. It is home to some of the UK’s best-loved brands – including the Radio Times, the most valuable and profitable magazine brand in the UK. Immediate engages over 19 million passionate consumers each month, offering them world-class content and innovative new products and services, including e-commerce and TV shopping.
Media companies will be allowed to ban customers who use ad blockers under new online privacy rules proposed by the European Commission. To combat the rise of ad blocking technology, which stops online adverts from showing up on websites, many publishers — including technology magazine Wired and mainstream titles such as Bild, the German tabloid — have opted to ban users who refuse to see advertising. In a proposed reform of the law on Tuesday, the commission attempted to clear up legal confusion by deciding that detection of an ad blocker would not break EU rules
David Montgomery, a former CEO of Trinity Mirror and editor of the News of the World has emerged as the potential buyer of the Express and Star newspapers, in a complicated deal with their current owner Richard Desmond that could also see Trinity Mirror take a minority stake
Daily Express owner Northern & Shell is in discussions with rival newspaper group Trinity Mirror about the potential sale of a minority stake in its newspapers and a deal to share back-office operations.
Economist deputy editor and digital strategy head Tom Standage on why news publishers need to say goodbye to advertising…
Press Release: Future plc (LSE: FUTR, “the Group” or “Future”), the international media group and leading digital business, has acquired the magazines, domain names, events, radio licence and websites of Classic Rock, Metal Hammer, Prog, Blues and the Golden Gods for £800,000 from FRP Advisory, the administrators of Team Rock Limited
Press Release: The Financial Times announces the acquisition of GIS Planning, a San Francisco-based internet technology company providing organisations with data and intelligence on foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic development in North America.
The acquisition of GIS Planning strengthens the FT Group’s portfolio of specialist products and services. GIS Planning’s ZoomProspector Enterprise and ZoomProspector.com join a stable of successful FDI subscription services which includes fDi Magazine, fDi Markets and fDi Benchmark
Magazine publisher Square Up Media is set to acquire media company Factory Media, publishers of Dirt and Cycling Magazine UK, for an undisclosed sum
UK media group Ascential has carved off 13 magazine titles into a separate entity with a view to selling them. The so-called ‘Heritage Brands’ include Nursing Times, MEED and Drapers
ITV paid a reported £50m to lure the The Voice away from The BBC in 2015 but it was the purchase earlier in the year of Talpa Media, the Dutch production company that created The Voice, that represents the longer-term investment for the future. But as Mr Crozier enters his seventh year in charge at ITV, questions are beginning to emerge about the long-term direction of the company and Mr Crozier’s own future
Magazine group Meredith Corporation has renewed its interest in Time Inc, the publisher of People and Sports Illustrated, according to people familiar with the matter
Pageant Media yesterday announced the acquisition of information services brands (II Seaches, Foundation & Endowment Intelligence and Money Management Intelligence) which provide critical insight for asset managers who need to understand current investor activity.
Advertising technology start-ups are struggling to get funding because of the dominance of Facebook and Google
According to the NiemanLab, each year they ask some of the “smartest people” in journalism and digital media what they think (through December 19) is coming in the next 12 months (2017). Starting off with Ray Soto, design director of emerging technologies at USA Today Network, speaking to VR moving from experiments to immersion, he says “If your production teams haven’t already heard of these terms, get to know them: ambisonics, stereoscopic rendering, and photogrammetry will be standard by the end of the year.”
Tarsus Group plc (“Tarsus” or the “Company”), the international business-to-business media group, is pleased to announce that it has conditionally agreed to acquire from the Guangdong Home Textile Association and Association Member shareholders 65% of Foshan Huaxia Home Textile Development Co., Ltd. (“Foshan Huaxia”) (the “Acquisition”). Foshan Huaxia owns the Home Furnishing Expo (Hometex), the leading bi-annual home textiles exhibition in China
Press Release: SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. – Emerald Expositions, LLC, announced its acquisition of the American Craft Retailers Expo (“ACRE”) from IndieMe, Inc. Founded in 2006, ACRE consists of two shows that take place annually in Las Vegas, NV and Philadelphia, PA. The events connect wholesale American and Canadian makers of handmade products with national and international buyers from art and fine craft galleries, modern gift and home stores, independent retailers, guilds & arts institutions, e-retailers, national retail chains, museums and other influencers in the home, gift and lifestyle marketplace.
Newsquest Media Group yesterday announced the acquisition of the Forestry Journal and essentialARB publications.
Publisher Axel Springer (SPRGn.DE) plans to launch Germany’s first daily sports newspaper next month, focusing on soccer as it seeks to offset a decline in sales at its established print business Fussball Bild will be the Germany’s first sports daily. Spain has a soccer-focused daily called Marca, which is published by Unidad Editorial and is the […]
Allworld has plenty to recommend it. It’s focused on some of the most exciting markets in Asia, from Singapore and Malaysia to Thailand and Indonesia. But takeovers reliant on boosts to sales are much harder to pull off than those based on cost savings
