Haymarket, the international media group, has today filed annual accounts showing an 8.7% per cent rise in operating profits to £5.03m (2014: £4.6m) on revenues of £184.3m (2014: £187.0m) in the financial year ending June 30, 2015, amid solid demand in its consumer media, business information and events operations
It’s a fair bet that 2016 will be the year of ever more ambitious collaborations between traditional media and digital disrupters. We have seen the Alibaba and Jeff Bezos acquisitions of the South China Post and the Washington Post respectively, the Axel Springer buy-out of Business Insider, and legacy media investments in BuzzFeed, Vox, and Vice News. These will surely be followed by a new wave of deals and collaborations. But with a difference
The loss follows a pre-tax profit of £11.1m the previous year, which saw a boost from property disposals worth £16.4million
Network has acquired Grip Limited, continuing its strategy to have a more holistic approach among its agencies and improve its digital capabilities. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed
Talks about a possible investment in global public affairs consultancy APCO by the US group Teneo have ended, PRWeek has learned, with APCO’s executive chair Margery Kraus saying the firm has a “few preferred options” for its future
MCM has revealed plans to broaden its offerings within the UK and Ireland, as well as rolling out new events across mainland Europe
Connected vehicle events and information firm joins Penton’s ground transport group, complements the publisher’s 2016 “Internet of Things”
published a piece by our contributor Kevin Anderson titled ‘The collapse of the attention economy’. Its central tenet is that an overabundance of content to which we all have access has led to an unsustainable environment in which scale is all and practically impossible to achieve.
For a long time, we’ve been creating too much content, so much so that I think that we’ve already reached Peak Content, the point at which this glut of things to read, watch and listen to becomes completely unsustainable. There hasn’t been enough ad revenue to sustain it for years and, with 2015 ending with a rush of acquisitions, consolidations and funding rounds with eye-watering valuations, 2016 will mark the beginning of a shake out.
WPP’s comms network Grey Group has acquired a majority stake in Seoul, South Korea-based creative digital agency Vinyl I-Co. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Havas has acquired healthcare marketing firm Gemini Healthcare, which will become part of a new company that will be housed within the Havas Health division.
In a press release Next 15 said it was tremendously excited to announce that Next 15 has acquired ODD, a London-based digital agency that specialises in consumer-facing communications for fashion and lifestyle brands
WPP announces that Geometry Global, its wholly-owned brand activation agency, has acquired Cacto Arte e Ideas S.A. De C.V. (“Cacto”), a digital customer relationship management company based in Mexico
WPP’s GroupM, has acquired programmatic marketing firm The Exchange Lab, known for its proprietary technology, Proteus.
Electric Word plc today announces that it has conditionally agreed to sell its indirect 70 per cent. shareholding in iGaming Business Limited, to Clarion Events Limited, a global events business with a portfolio of event and media businesses across a range of vertical markets. The Sale values the whole of iGB on a cash free debt free basis at £19.7 million. The holder of the remaining iGB Shares, Michael Caselli, has also agreed to sell 5.1 per cent. of the issued iGB Shares and will retain the balance
The Adblock Plus revenue model has long been a contentious one. Adblock Plus charges some companies to appear on its “Acceptable Ads” list — a white list that allows some un-interruptive ads to be served to its users. Confirming a Financial Times article published earlier this year, large entities — which it qualifies as those […]
Time Inc UK – home to country and sporting titles The Field, Shooting Gazette, Shooting Times, Sporting Gun, Country Life and Horse & Hound – further expands its portfolio of events with the launch of the Field & Country Fair, celebrating the British countryside and field sports.
Plexus, part of Ascential (formerly Top Right Group), has been working with Abacus e-Media on a major project to upgrade fifteen major brands to the latest version of the Webvision CMS.
System Analytic’s database and online tools enable pharmaceutical companies to identify, map, and engage key opinion leaders across a broad range of medical fields. Clients include Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis and Roche.
Watchable makes both short and long form video content for brands that are looking to complement or even replace their more traditional adverts to further engage their audiences.
