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LeftField Media today announced it has been acquired by Urban Expositions, a Clarion Events Company. LeftField is a Norwalk-based event organizer with a growing portfolio of consumer events focused on passionate communities around the US, and it now joins the family of Clarion Events. The acquisition will provide LeftField increased capital and infrastructure, while offering Urban Expositions new expertise and market reach in B2C events.

TV broadcaster outbids tech publisher Ziff Davis for bankrupt online media group

Incisive Media has accelerated its ad performance program with the roll-out of anti-ad blocking technology on its asset management brands Investment Week and Professional Adviser

been rebuffed in a £1bn takeover offer for Entertainment One (eOne), owner of hit children’s TV show Peppa Pig, as it looks to extend an acquisition spree aimed at reducing its reliance on volatile advertising income. Canadian film and TV producer and distributor eOne said it had received and rejected a preliminary proposal to buy the company for 236p a share, or £1.01bn in total

Flashes&Flames: Murdoch might cast envious eyes at the 129-year-old, family-owned Hearst Corporation which has built an unrivalled multi-media business, not least by investing widely in long-term partnerships and joint ventures. Last year, Hearst increased its revenue by 6% to almost $11bn in what was the fifth consecutive year of record revenue and profits. Its revenue […]

The international arm of Japan’s biggest advertising firm Dentsu has agreed to buy a majority stake in Merkle, a US-based digital marketing analytics business, in a deal that values the company at about $1.5bn including debt

Ad tech executives reacted to Monday’s news that Japanese holding company Dentsu Aegis Network acquired a majority stake in Merkle, a CRM and performance marketing agency. Columbia, Md.-based Merkle is one of the largest independent digital agencies. While the terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, Merkle has more than 2,900 employees and reported $436 million […]

Emerald Expositions has acquired The International Gift Exposition in the Smokies (IGES) from M&M Gift Shows

London-based research and events firm Informa has acquired telecommunications industry publisher Light Reading, along with research-oriented counterpart Heavy Reading, from CEO and founder Steve Saunders. Saunders will continue at Informa for a minimum of three years, under the title of digital publisher-in-chief

Press Release: WPP announces that J. Walter Thompson Company, its wholly owned global marketing communications agency, has agreed to acquire iStrategyLabs, LLC (“ISL”), a full service digital agency, in the US

Ascential, the business-to-business media company that floated in London this year, has reported a 13.5 per cent revenue growth in the first half of the year.

The owner of trade magazine publisher Incisive Media is exploring a £100m sale, seven years after it was seized by its lenders in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Incisive, owned by the private equity firm Alchemy, is working with the City adviser Arma Partners on a strategic review that is expected to lead to an auction process, City sources said

French PR groups Hopscotch and Sopexa, and the Paris-based events company Comexposium, are in discussions about forming an alliance to create “the largest French PR network worldwide” – which is being marketed as an alternative to the “Anglo-Saxon networks”

The Guardian made a loss of more than £180m last year as digital growth went into reverse and the a tough print market took a further turn for the worse

Pro-EU newspaper the New European is to continue publishing beyond its four-week trial period after beating its sales targets, its publisher, Archant. has announced

Facebook’s ad revenue surged 63% year-on-year to $6.24bn last quarter, as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg hailed the social media giant’s progress in video

Business (MAB), part of the Mark Allen Group (MAG), completed its acquisition of three clusters of international conferences from London-based Industry Dynamics, last week

Press Release: Mortgage Brain Holdings has bought publishing company AE3 Media, which includes trade brand Mortgage Solutions, lender and broker awards scheme the British Mortgage Awards and top consumer brands Your Mortgage and Your Money. The move will capitalise on the assets and develop synergies between technology and data company Mortgage Brain, which has over […]

Four Communications has acquired retail and luxury sector specialist PR agency Rain Communications for an undisclosed sum – its second acquisition this month

Newly listed magazine company Time Out expects to report revenue growth of 16 per cent for the first half of 2016 – a period in which many other publishers have experienced heavy declines