UBM plc (LSE: UBM-LN) today announces that it has acquired Content Marketing Institute (CMI) for a consideration of $17.6m with an additional earn-out subject to meeting profit targets over the next 2 years
Reed Exhibitions has expanded its presence in South Korea with the Electronics Manufacturing Korea show, and three Home Table Deco Fairs. The shows have been acquired from Korean organiser K-Fairs, which has partnered with Reed previously in 2014. These acquisitions will add four new exhibitions to Reed’s growing portfolio of events, with the organiser recently announcing the launch of the World Travel Retail Expo
The crucial question no one, including Jeff Jarvis, can answer: how will we fund journalists in a world dominated by Google and Facebook?
Star fund manager Neil Woodford is expected to be among investors in line to pick up a stake in media group Time Out when it unveils plans for its London listing tomorrow
Hearst is putting events front and centre in a ‘dynamic distribution’ strategy for its brands
I am in Ireland to address the Irish Press Council’s annual general meeting in a lecture entitled “Have newspapers got a future?” My theme is that they have no future. Declining circulation figures tell us that people are switching week by week from print to screen. It is simply a matter of time before it becomes unprofitable to continue publishing newsprint papers
Shares in Daily Mail and General Trust, publisher of the Daily Mail, fell by 10 per centon Thursday as it disclosed the toll that the sudden downturn in print advertising is having on its business. It suffered a 16 per cent decline in print advertising revenues in the first half of its financial year
The agency network said the private equity firm won’t be involved in its day-to-day operations, but it will help its growth strategy
Magazine publisher Future reported it had reduced its pre-tax losses today as it forecast further acquisitions activity. In April, Future acquired Noble House Media, a publisher specialising in technology and the mobile industry, and Blaze Publishing, which covers the music and shooting sectors. And the publisher anticipates more activity to strengthen its portfolios in both its media and magazine divisions.
Online advertising has grown rapidly in recent years, with US revenues hitting $59.6bn in 2015, according to eMarketer, compared with the $68.9bn generated by television. However, as online advertising has grown, so have concerns about viewer measurement, fraud and the placement of campaigns on sites that could be harmful to brands.
The events organiser, which hopes to conclude the sale of its PR Newswire and Agility businesses in coming weeks, said performance since the start of the year had been in line with management expectations. Larger events continued to drive performance, most notably Game Developers Conference, MAGICVegas, Enterprise Connect, MD&M West and Hotelex/FineFoods, UBM said.
Media everywhere needs to be focused on unbundling information that was once packaged for print, in order to give readers-users the opportunity to pay only for what they actually want. Nowhere is this easier than in markets where readers account for most of the revenues – like many of those sectors traditionally dominated by Bauer
Elsevier, the scientific publisher owned by RELX Group, has bought the Social Science Research Network, a website on which academics share draft papers that have not yet been published in a peer-reviewed journal. On Tuesday, the company announced that it had acquired SSRN, which has more than 2m users and ranks as one of the world’s most popular repositories of research in economics, law and social sciences, for an undisclosed sum
Sales of printed books have grown for the first time in four years, lifted by the adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, as ebooks suffered their first ever decline
Time Inc. is chasing Millennials by going where they do: mobile videos of Internet stars
Gannett today announced that it has increased its offer to acquire Tribune Publishing Company to $15.00 per share from $12.25 per share — a 22.5% increase. The move comes after its initial bid was rejected and Tribune adopted a “poison pill” plan to block the offer
Freeman has told EW that its purchase of market research and consulting firm Exhibit Surveys reflects the importance of data for marketing events.
The move supports the company’s goal to continue to grow its resources to support strategy, design and digital by adding an experienced group of researchers with a deep understanding of data and measurement.
Press Release: Future plc, the international media group and leading digital business, has acquired, for an undisclosed sum, the assets of Blaze Publishing. Blaze is a UK-based publisher and event organiser, which focuses on the shooting and music sectors through a combination of events, consumer magazines, trade publications and contract publishing.
New York-based events firm Argyle Executive Forum, LLC has acquired business media company Innovation Enterprise from private equity firm Seguin Partners and minority stake owner The Economist Group
According to the Sunday Times, the publisher’s private equity owner Exponent is interviewing advisers for handling the sale that is expected to be completed before the summer.
One of Britain’s biggest magazine publishers, Immediate Media sells 74m magazines every year including BBC titles like Good Food, Homes & Antiques, Gardeners’ World, and Match of the Day among others. The media house also owns other UK consumer titles like Triathlon, Urban Cyclist, You and Your wedding, and Horrible Histories
