Mail Online fails to offset print decline

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

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WPP takes stake in sports agency Two Circles

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

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Chris Anderson a Flashes & Flames hero

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

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What now for AOL’s content publishers?

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 […]

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Nightmare for world’s most successful TV group?

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

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Taylor & Francis Group has acquired Maney Publishing

Maney’s high-quality portfolio consists of scholarly books and journals in Materials Science and Engineering, the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Health Sciences, and complements our existing journals in these areas. Many of these titles are published in partnership with societies, universities, and institutes

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Mack Brooks acquires Chemspec from Quartz

Mack Brooks Exhibitions Group has announced the acquisition of the rights to the Chemspec series of events from Quartz Group. The Chemspec Events brand is dedicated to the fine and speciality chemicals industry, and consists of a portfolio of exhibitions in Europe, Eurasia and Asia, as well as the Speciality Chemicals magazine. For the full story read Exhibition News  

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Havas Reports Organic Growth of 7.1% in First Quarter

Havas reported organic growth of 7.1% and a revenue increase of 20.6% to $525 million for the first quarter of 2015. The strongest regions were North America, with revenue up 10.2% to $199 million, and Asia Pacific and Africa, where revenue grew by 10.1% to $40 million. Within that region, revenue in China wasup 17%. […]

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Axel Springer to fund mobile shopping platform

Retale, a location-based mobile platform connecting more than 3.5 million shoppers with their favourite major retailers locally and based on the German kaufDA business model, announced it has secured US$12m in funding from its existing investor base among which Axel Springer holds the largest stake

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