Apple’s News app has launched in the UK with a range of publisher partners including the BBC, Telegraph, Guardian, Sun and Sky News.The Apple News app, which aims to aggregate digital news media, has launched with 14 UK newspaper and magazine publishers.
James Murdoch has said that 21st Century Fox is not happy being a partial shareholder in pan-European pay-TV broadcaster Sky
Joe Ripp CEO of Time inc claims that “there is so much bad content out there, that quality content (as delivered by the company’s numerous brands), will win through and engage readers.”
Although Immediate Media Co is still a month shy of its four-year birthday, it has made a lot of headway in the marketplace. Bureau said it has shifted its focus from being a publication company to becoming a special interest content and platform company.
City AM is launching a trial from Tuesday that will blur out text of stories on cityam.com for desktop users of Firefox browsers who are detected using ad blocking software
Adspend in the UK grew to a record high of £9.42 billion in the first half of the year, according to the latest Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure Report.UK advertising expenditure grew by 5.8 per cent, according to the report. Internet spend for H1 2015 increased by 13.3 per cent to £3.98 billion. The strong growth in digital spend with driven by mobile, which accounted for 79 per cent.
This means a new chapter opens in the long history of Ipack-Ima, one of the world’s leading exhibitions for processing and packaging technology. Fiera Milano has been the venue of Ipack-Ima since its very beginning. Now it owns the Italian show, as well
ir Martin Sorrell has said that the slowdown in digital newspaper advertising growth is proof that publishers should have paywalls.Speaking at the Society of Editors conference, the WPP chief executive said that a range of factors are contributing to clients reassessing the efficacy of digital ad spend levels, which will make it difficult for publishers solely relying on digital advertising income
After several years of casual discussions between the companies, Active Interest Media has acquired Des Moines, Iowa-based August Home Publishing, an enthusiast media company in the woodworking, gardening and cooking markets
Big changes are afoot at the country’s biggest magazine publisher: Time Inc. is shuttering All You magazine, effective with its December 2015 issue. It is acquiring HelloGiggles, an online media company which targets millennial consumers with pop culture, beauty and lifestyle content
The summer of 2015 will be remembered as the moment a perfect storm hit national newspapers.The print advertising market, which still remains the lifeblood of income for most publishers on the path to digital sustainability, has been down unprecedented levels of as much as 30% in some weeks over the past six months
Owner of franchise in Northern Ireland and loss-making channel UTV Ireland has been in talks with ITV since August ITV is understood to have been able to drive a hard deal owing to the poor launch of UTV Ireland.
The publisher of the Daily Mirror is poised to announce a £220m deal to take control of Local World, which owns more than 100 regional titles, to create a local newspaper powerhouse.Trinity Mirror, which also owns the Sunday People and Sunday Mirror, is thought to be close to securing a deal with Local World and could announce completion this week
Retains HOW magazines and HOW University as part of refocusing effort
French media and content group Vivendi has returned to the world of video gaming, taking 6.6 per cent and 6.2 per cent in Paris-based Ubisoft and Gameloft respectively for a combined €160m. The move sent shares in Ubisoft up 11 per cent and Gameloft up 13 per cent on Thursday morning
Chime Communications could grow by at least 10 per cent per year organically under new majority owner Providence, CEO Christopher Satterthwaite has told PRWeek as the £374m sale of the sports marketing and PR group
Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (“Euromoney”), the international online information and events group, today announces that it has acquired a 10 percent interest in Zanbato Inc (“Zanbato”), an international private capital placements platform and workflow tools provider, for a consideration of US$5.5m, funded from its existing cash resources. The investment is part of a US$14m Series B […]
Deal gives Condé Nast an instant foothold in music content and access to a younger audience segment.Condé Nast announced today it acquired online music site Pitchfork
Issue one, on sale today, is the first of a four-weekly magazine priced at £3.99 and aimed at children aged six to 12. Each issue of the magazine contains epic missions, mega make-its, jokes, comic adventures, Brains’ coolest gadgets and a Thunderbirds Are Go branded gift
RBI’s Farmers Weekly has launched Home Farm, a new 100-page glossy magazine
