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The Interactive Advertising Bureau will offer small publishers new tools that could help them combat ad blocking, the organization said on Tuesday.

There is nothing so inspiring as a person triumphing over disaster — the narrative of many books and films. So the sight of Henry Blodget, the former Wall Street analyst who was disgraced in the 1990s dotcom bubble, selling Business Insider, the news site he founded in 2007, at a valuation of $390m is heartwarming

Revenues for FY 2015 are expected to be circa £136m (2014: £174m). On a like-for like basis this represents a decrease of 14%

According to a new series from Adotas: “Online Advertising, Life After Mobile Ad Blocking,” iOS 9 was recently released and the tools for developers to create ad-blocking software are incorporated into the operating system

A Talent Network for freelancers, an Apple Watch news app, and Arc, a software platform for news publishers are just three of the new products The Washington Post has launched in the last year.

Mobile ad spend is expected to increase by 45% this year to £3.26bn in the UK, easily surpassing the £2.67bn that will be spent on print advertising across national and local newspapers and magazines, according to a report published on Wednesday by eMarketer

Reports show that somewhere close to half of all mobile ad taps are accidental

Hearst is continuing its string of bets on youth-oriented digital content and video platforms through a $21 million stake in Complex Media, a network of edgy pop culture, entertainment, tech and gaming sites

The private equity giant Blackstone is among a pack of investment firms weighing £1.2bn takeover bids for the media conglomerate which owns the Cannes Lions advertising festival

Havas is making its biggest acquisition in fifteen years with the purchase of digital communications group FullSix, for around $75 million.

It is almost 200 years since the UK’s pioneering railway network created the opportunity for daily newspapers to reach breakfast tables in every corner of the country. That led to decades of soaring power, prestige and profits. The newspapers of “Fleet Street” (named after their historic location) became as important to Brits as Shakespeare, the […]

MCM Expo, organiser of the MCM Comic Cons has announced the launch of GamerMania, a brand new event to take the gaming world by storm. From 29 to 31 July 2016, ExCeL London will host the event for the UK gaming market to reach out to worldwide gamers

The Comexposium Group is strengthening its leadership in the private and public works’ councils sector through its acquisition of France CE

Daily Mail and General Trust shares fell 11 per cent to a four-month low, after it became the latest newspaper publisher to be hit by falling UK advertising

First, Axel Springer was outbid in an auction to buy the FT Group, owner of the Financial Times, just as it had lost out in the sale of another British newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, in 2004. Second, talks with German broadcaster ProSiebenSat. 1 about a possible merger broke down

AVCJ and Unquote are leading sources of information on private equity and venture capital deals and fundraising activity. The brands represent a complementary extension to the Mergermarket Group suite of products that include Mergermarket, Debtwire, Dealreporter, Infinata, Xtract Research and the Remark global events division

PennWell Corporation, a diversified global media and information company, announced today that it has acquired a 51% interest in Revo Media Partners Limited, owner of LuxLive, the UK’s largest dedicated lighting event, and Lux Magazine and Lux Review, the leading trade publications in the energy efficiency lighting space

This strategic acquisition complements the Mobile Media Summit (MMS) network of events established in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Miami, Las Vegas, Barcelona and Cannes, acquired in February 2015

The new company is to be rebranded Aardman Nathan Love, in a merger that would create Aardman’s first production facility outside of the UK

Edelman has bought London-based financial PR and investor relations firm Smithfield Consultants, an acquisition described by UK & Ireland CEO Ed Williams as one of the “last pieces in the jigsaw” for the group’s UK offering. For the full story read PR Week