Healthcare data and intelligence firm Definitive Healthcare has acquired Billian’s HealthData, which provides data and analytics on US healthcare organizations, along with access to more than two million healthcare executives including one million physicians
Global management consultancy Accenture has bought a majority stake in Tokyo, Japan-based full service digital agency IMJ Corporation, which offers strategic planning, data analytics and web integration. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1996, IMJ provides a suite of services to support clients’ digital marketing activities across multiple platforms and channels. At its core, the company has access to large sets of transactional and non-transactional data, generated and made available through clients’ owned media, combined with IMJ’s ability to convert this data into insight
Press Release: WPP announces that it has acquired Conexance MD, SAS (“Conexance”), operator of the leading data co-operative covering consumer transactions in France. Conexance is a database marketing company and a leader in providing proprietary statistical modeling to identify consumer behaviours and attributes that are strong predictors of future purchases. Conexance’s solutions provide improved performance for customer prospecting as well as building customer loyalty both online and offline. Conexance’s data cooperative offers more than 25 million individual household buyers and 32 million digital profiles qualified by one billion business transactions from more than 500 data-contributing retailers and merchants
People using ad-blocking software who visited the The New York Times website in March were shown a message. This read: “The best things in life aren’t free”. It went on to explain that “advertising helps us fund our journalism” and gave the visitor two options to read the newspaper’s online content: disable their ad-blocking software or pay for a subscription
Fate of print edition unknown as Markets Media undergoes digital redesign
The London-based art and fashion magazine will arrive as the 12th digital channel in the Vice Media portfolio
Johnston Press has sold off three newspapers covering the Isle of Man to rivals Tindle Newspapers in a deal worth £4.25m. Set to change ownership are The Isle of Man Examiner and the Isle of Man Courier, both established in the 1880s, and the Manx Independent, founded in 1987
Time Inc. is planning a major reorganization focused on web video, live events and working closely with marketers, according to a person familiar with the plans, as the publisher of People magazine tries to transform itself for the digital age
Winston Churchill famously defined “appeasement” as “being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last”. By that definition, many of the world’s biggest news publishing organisations have been in the appeasement business for at least the past two years and the crocodile to which they have been sucking up is Facebook, the social networking giant
Hibert Publishing has sold Colorado Parent and Westchester Family in two separate deals that owner Gary Hibert said likely mean the end for the company he’s run since Nov. 2012. Parties close to the deals declined to share the terms of sale. Westchester Family, five ancillary publications, and its website were acquired by Community News Group (CNG), a publisher of New York-based magazines and newspapers. The monthly magazine has a circulation of 35,000 and will retain most of its staff
WPP announces that it has agreed to make a strategic investment in All Def Digital, Inc. (“ADD”), a digital media company founded by hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons, in the US. ADD’s clients include NBC Universal and Samsung. The company was founded by Simmons in 2013. It employs approximately 35 people and is based in Los Angeles. […]
WPP announces that it has agreed to make a strategic investment in Woven Digital, Inc. (“Woven”), a digital media company that targets the millennial male market, in the US.
Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper group has mounted a major challenge to BBC radio with a £220m takeover of Wireless Group, the owner of the Premier League football broadcaster talkSport.
After its persistent efforts to buy tronc, formerly Tribune Publishing, Gannett Co., Inc. announced its plans to acquire digital marketing company ReachLocal, Inc. with the goal to enhance Gannett’s digital revenue by 50%
Broadcaster saw share price fall by more than 20% on Friday, raising speculation it will become target for takeover bid
Stocks in the sector fell further than the wider market on Friday as investors reacted to the poll result
“Native advertising is really taking off. It will almost double its share of the overall advertising revenues in the magazine publishing industry to 33% in 2018 up from 19% in 2015,” said Jesper Laursen, founder and CEO of Native Advertising Institute (NAI)
No media business is even close to where it wants to be. Traditional companies struggle to hang on to print cashflows while competing with digital newbies which have all the flair but no sustainable profits. Young, digital-only, low-cost, small-team insurgents are fighting the unfair fight with the beasts of media pre-history. One business model is broken and the other is unproven.
Vice is to launch TV and digital services in more than 50 countries, as the youth-focused media company continues to expand aggressively. It has struck a range of deals with international media partners to bring TV, mobile and digital services to regions including the Middle East, Africa, India and south-east Asia. Vice will also extend its […]
Future have agreed terms to acquire the holding company of Imagine Publishing for shares in Future worth £14.2m
