Nine media organisations, including the BBC, through its youth-oriented Newsbeat service, the Guardian and the New York Times, have struck a deal with Facebook to publish some of their content directly through the social network rather than simply hosting it on their own sites as part of a trial.
FanSided’s unique fan-focused editorial voice, very popular mobile app and personalized digital newsletter are behind FanSided’s rapidly growing popularity among millennial sports and entertainment fans. FanSided’s community of 1,500+ contributors will deepen Sports Illustrated’s local sports coverage and add more weight to the brand’s new customization platform, which is set to launch later this year.
Luxury goods group LVMH is negotiating to acquire the French daily newspaper Le Parisien for €50m (£35m), reports the Financial Times.
The popularity of the Cannes Lions advertising festival and a surge in demand at environmental data business Groundsure drove a 27% increase in profits at parent company Top Right last year
Sarah McConville, vice president of marketing at Harvard Business Review (HBR) Group and publisher of Harvard Business Review Press spoke to Jon Watkins about how data and analytics are driving the evolution of the HBR brand
PAINWeek runs the leading U.S. event for pain management, which takes place annually in September in Las Vegas. PAINWeek addresses a key part of neurology, pain management, providing Tarsus with increased exposure to a key area of the preventative medicine market
his move would seem to indicate that Dentsu Aegis is planting its flag to assert its serious intent in the field of content. It gets an outfit that is close to being best-in-class in its field, one that will help differentiate it from its competitors and helping it to position itself as a true “one stop shop”
Mail Online’s revenues increased by 20% to £36m in the six months to the end of March, a sharp slowdown compared with last year and not enough to offset the advertising and sales decline at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Its owner, Daily Mail & General Trust, said total revenue across its Mail businesses fell by 4% to £296m compared with the same period last year
The magazine, which began in December 1945, will continue to be run by the same publisher and editorial team. A new independent editorial board will be established, to be chaired by Dave Gordon, formerly head of major sporting events at the BBC
WPP has acquired a majority stake in Two Circles Limited, a data-driven sports marketing agency based in London. Following the deal, Two Circles will become part of ESP Properties, GroupM’s newly launched company serving rightsholders from the worlds of sports and entertainment
ESP Properties will be dedicated to serving sports and entertainment rightsholders. GroupM, the world’s leading media investment management company, today announced it is expanding its sports and entertainment offering under a new global agency brand, ESP
Hero: Chris Anderson: He is the former magazine publisher, journalist and internet entrepreneur who is the ‘curator’ of TED, responsible for the eponymous conference which began 31 years ago in Monterey and has been a world-watching annual event since 1990
Several mobile operators plan to block advertising on their networks, setting the stage for a battle with digital media companies such as Google, AOL and Yahoo
From humble beginnings, MediaWeek’s former publisher Emap went on to become ‘one of the most admired media companies in the world’. Here, Colin Morrison recalls how it got there, and the collapse that was to follow
Dentsu Aegis Network has bought celebrated content agency John Brown Media for an undisclosed sum
DC Thomson, a long-standing investor of ShortList Media, has bought the 50% of the multimedia company it did not already own for an undisclosed sum.
Apollo Global Management has broken off talks to the buy Digital First Media, one of the largest newspaper chains in the country — whose stable includes the Denver Post, the San Jose Mercury News and the New Haven Register.
From printed page to web page, the medium has been reinvented, says Immediate Media’s Tom Bureau.
It’s less than a day after the news that the telecommunications giant Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion rocked the tech and publishing industries, so it’s no surprise that there are still unanswered questions about the deal. Not least among those questions is what will happen to AOL’s digital publishing efforts like Huffington Post […]
BSkyB, now (again) re-named Sky, has had a remarkable quarter-century – and not only with its pioneering and innovative coverage of British football. It owns and operates the UK’s largest portfolio of pay TV channels across entertainment, sports, movies – and also news. For the full blog read Flashes&Flames
