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
Press Release: New York [July 25, 2016] – Dentsu Aegis Network today announced the acquisition of gyro, the largest independent global creative agency dedicated exclusively to business-to-business (B2B) marketing
Events marketing platform evvnt has announced the acquisition of Eventviva, for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition of the event discovery and ticketing platform is part of evvnts’ global expansion as the company focuses firmly on reaching the global audience of event organisers. Founded in 2012 by Aditya Patadia and Hardik Pandya, Eventviva has had more than 3.8 million events listed and has helped users to find local events in their city in over 1,000 cities worldwide
Organiser Prysm Group has acquired disability, rehabilitation, and homecare event, Naidex, from i2i Events for an undisclosed sum. “Naidex is, quite simply, exhibition royalty, and I can’t tell you how excited we all are to have acquired it,” said Nick Moss, MD of Prysm Group. “We are going to pour our hearts and souls into making the 43rd edition of Naidex a truly memorable event for the independent living sector, and the entire team can’t wait to get started.”
Mercury Events Ltd, organiser of the Wedding Fairs and the Baby & Toddler Shows has been acquired by Ocean Media Group. Matt Miller, MD of Mercury Events will join Ocean Media, taking on the responsibility for the new consumer division as managing director
BCD Meetings & Events (BCD M&E) acquired Zibrant, an award-winning Events Agency delivering national and international events in the UK, to strengthen and diversify its Events business in the European market
Verizon Communications will announce today its intent to acquire Yahoo’s core assets, including its search, video and mobile advertising businesses in a deal valued at about $4.8 billion, according to reports
Guardian Media Group will this week reveal a higher than expected full-year operating loss of £69m as the owner of The Guardian newspaper battles to bring its finances under control. GMG’s total pre-tax loss will hit £173m as the group belatedly writes down about £80m in the value of its stake in Ascential, the publicly quoted magazine and events company, and takes a £20m restructuring charge over severance payments
Energy sector data firm Verisk Analytics is buying electricity and renewables sector information provider Greentech Media and will merge it with recently acquired research and consulting company Wood Mackenzie. Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
The Financial Times is certainly not the first media company to test out approaches to combating the rise of ad-blocking technology, but its new approach might be the most creative one yet. On Wednesday, the newspaper began blanking out, for some users, a percentage of words in articles symbolizing the percentage of the company’s revenue that comes from advertising
You may think you choose to read one story over another, or to watch a particular video rather than all the others clamouring for your attention, but in truth, you are probably manipulated into doing so by publishers using clever machine learning algorithms
The well-established international conferences MAB acquired include The European Manufacturing Summit and The North American Manufacturing Strategies Summit, alongside a number of specialist sector conferences in Food, Packaging and Pharmaceutical sectors.
