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Hearst is putting $21 million into Complex Media in exchange for a minority stake in the millennial-focused publisher

Dentsu Inc. will remain acquisitive for the foreseeable future, with a particular focus on faster-growing geographies and high-value areas in the digital space

More than half of all UK adspend will be digital next year, Carat has predicted, with the total market to grow by 6.4 per cent in 2015

Axel Springer, the German publishing house that puts out Germany’s largest tabloid, Bild, is said to be considering buying U.S. online news publisher Business Insider

Last Wednesday Apple rolled out the latest version of its iOS operating system, and it came with a very nasty sting in the tail for newspapers, magazines and online publishers everywhere

UDG Healthcare confirmed yesterday that it is selling its drug distribution units across Ireland and a unit in its commercial services business to US drug wholesaler and Fortune 500 firm McKesson for €407.5m

Controversial software that blocks web adverts on Apple’s iPhone and iPad still topped the list of most popular paid apps during the weekend, after the leading contender was scrapped by its creator

Ben Barokas, the founder and chief executive of Sourcepoint and a former Google executive, is at Dmexco, where he described the battle between ad blockers and the media industry as “war”

Axel Springer, Europe’s biggest news publisher by circulation, has become the latest media group to pull out of Russia after the country passed a law limiting foreign ownership of its media

Media trends watcher Kantar Media says U.S. ad expenditures totaled $38 billion in the second quarter of 2015, 3.9 percent less than was spent in the same period in 2014

The Washington Post is being offered cheap-as-free to users of Amazon Prime, in a move that might finally make sense of Jeff Bezos’ plans to couple the two together. Though the number isn’t absolutely certain, Prime is speculated to have over 40 million users in the US alone

M Squared Media Ltd has announced its intention to acquire Hairdressers Journal International, Salon International and the British Hairdressing Awards from Reed Business Information (RBI)

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