UBM said: Over the past four years, there have been significant developments in the publishing industry and Publishing & Media Expo has continued to evolve in line with these developments – i.e. an increasing focus on multi-platform publishing (print, digital, mobile) being reflected in the make-up of our content and exhibitor base
Rebekah Brooks is to take charge of her first digital acquisition after returning to News UK with the £58m acquisition of ad platform Unruly Media by parent company News Corp
Special-interest publisher Bonnier Corp., is moving to bolster its Wakeboarding franchise with the acquisition of a provider of online instructional content. With the purchase of Learnwake.com, the Orlando, Fla., company’s title secures what it describes as “the online destination” for wakeboarders looking for videos that help them learn the sport’s finer points
Front Events, organiser of the Financial Services Expo shows, has announced the launch of FSE Cardiff, to take place in the Welsh capital city in June 2016.
WPP announces that its wholly-owned operating company Ogilvy, the global marketing communications agency, has acquired a majority stake of Jüssi Intention Marketing Ltda. (“Jüssi”), a leading online performance, programmatic and conversion marketing agency in Brazil
UBM Plc is exploring a sale of PR Newswire Association LLC in a deal that could value the distributor of press releases at more than $700 million, according to people familiar with the matter
Hill+Knowlton Strategies, a wholly owned subsidiary of advertising and marketing services giant WPP plc WPPGY acquired a majority stake in Ideal – a Brazilian public relations, advertising, digital and content firm – in an attempt to bolster its presence in the region ahead of the 2016 Olympics in Rio
German newspaper groups including Axel Springer and the publishers of Der Spiegel are working with a Dutch start-up to offer individual articles in exchange for micropayments through a platform launching this week
The publisher of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror already owns a 20 per cent stake in Local World and said it is now considering a deal worth £200 million to acquire the remaining 80 per cent
Publicis Healthcare announced today that it has acquired Tardis Medical
Germany is home to half of the world’s top ten highest-grossing exhibition organisers, new research shows.
In a press release today CloserStill Media announced it is to launch Cloud Expo Europe and Data Centre World events in Paris, November 2016
Scranton Gillette Communications is cashing in some of its chips to focus more intently on its core growth markets. The B2B publisher is shuttering its horticulture group, selling two publications and two events to Great American Media Group
In the second major broadcast-legacy media mashup deal of the week, Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox has taken a majority stake in National Geographic Society’s media assets, including National Geographic magazine, in a deal valued at $725 million
Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says that there Is or may be case that anticipated acquisition by Reed Elsevier (Uk) Ltd of Jordans Publishing Ltd could result in decrease of competition
In a press release Xerox and inVentiv Health today announced Xerox’s acquisition of inVentiv Patient Access Solutions, an inVentiv Health company
Huntsworth Health has brought two of its medical communications agencies togetherApothecom and Apothecom ScopeMedical under a new brand as Apothecom Medical Communications, which the group says will be ‘a single, global powerhouse’
Traditional media giants Media General and Meredith Corp. announced an agreement to merge into a new, even more giant entity that will be known as Meredith Media General. While Meredith, with some of the best-known consumer publishing brands, gets top billing in the agreement, Media General is effectively acquiring Meredith via a cash and stock deal putting its outstanding common stock value at $2.4 billion
In a press release today BLENHEIM CHALCOT and its portfolio company Contentive announced the acquisition of the brands Accountancy Age and Financial Director from Incisive Media
Hearst titles Cosmo, Elle and Esquire have been undergoing a digital revamp aimed at capturing audiences spending more time on mobile devices
