Cargo Media will continue to publish the monthly HCB magazine, and continue to provide industry with business-critical information through the HCB Live website and HCB Weekly newsletter.
Tuesday’s changes to Facebook’s News Feed algorithm caused a panic among publishers who fear that they could find themselves left outside in the cold
According to the FT WPP has reported 8.3 per cent revenue growth and profits “well above target” in the first quarter of the year – an indication that the world’s largest advertising group by sales is outpacing its rivals Publicis and Omnicom.
Revenue in the digital business, which includes Cars.com and CareerBuilder.com, jumped 85.1 percent to $332.7 million in the first quarter ended March 29, from a year earlier. Revenue from the publishing business fell 13.9 percent to $50.5 million.
The Mark Allen Group has been shortlisted for the Ones to Recognise category by the Sunday Times BDO Profit Track Awards scheme for achieving significant year-on-year growth over the last three years.
WPP announces that it has acquired Medialets Inc. (“Medialets”), creator of technology that helps marketers manage and measure the complete return on investment of mobile ad campaigns.
Informa PLC (“Informa” or the “Group”), has today issued a trading update on the Group’s operating and financial performance for the three months ended 31 March 2015
Creston also announces the acquisition of 51 per cent of the share capital of How Splendid Ltd (‘Splendid’), a London-based digital design and development consultancy.
After winning the highest-ever valuation on BBCTV’s Dragon’s Den, The Little Girl (or Boy) Who Lost Her (or His) Name – designed for individual children – sells 500,000 copies.
Publicis Groupe’s UK revenue declined by 4.2 per cent in the first three months of 2015, despite overall revenues climbing 32 per cent following the Sapient acquisition. The owner of Saatchi & Saatchi and Starcom MediaVest Group reported revenues of €2.10 billion, up 31.7 per cent year on year. Read more at Campaign
The Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure report said adspend increased by 5.8 per cent in 2014 to £18.6 billion. The biggest increases in adspend came through digital, with internet advertising rising 15 per cent and mobile adspend climbing 58.9 per cent. For the full story read Brand Republic
Sky’s UK operation added 127,000 new customers in the company’s third quarter, a 41% increase year on year and the best rate of growth in 11 years for that three month period. For the full story read The Guardian
Harte Hanks today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell its B2B research businesses, Aberdeen Group and Harte Hanks Market Intelligence, to subsidiaries of Halyard Capital
The UK’s Official Charts Company has launched the country’s first weekly vinyl charts, responding to a resurgence in consumer demand for the old-school format. Vinyl sales last year hit their highest level in the UK in 20 years, with 1.29m LP records sold.
Easyfairs has announced the acquisition of Tank Storage Forum, as part of the company’s ongoing strategy to deepen its support of the bulk liquid storage market. The acquisition includes Tank World Expo, which takes place on 13-14 April 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre. The development follows the recent acquisition of Tank Storage magazine.
TES Global, the global digital education business, today announced the acquisition of online global higher education job network UniJobs
Three red-tops – the Sun, Daily Sport and Daily Record – all reported declines of more than 10%. The Mirror recorded a much smaller fall, down 6.74% to 897,786. Last month, the Mirror distributed 45,000 bulk copies to places such as airports, up from 42,000 the previous March.
Lynda.com, a California-based company, has created hundreds of thousands of video tutorials in multiple languages, helping people to learn “software, technology, creative and business skills to achieve personal and professional goals”.
Education is yet another industry being changed radically by digital methods. Just as with magazine media, the consumer has become even more powerful, determining what they need, and confident in being self-led through whatever course of instruction they desire.
A press release dated early March 15 from Inflexion Private Equity Partners announced an investment in Closer Still – a secondary buy-out from “…Pheonix with NVM valuing the business at US$100m” (comment by JEGI). The text of the release said: Inflexion is pleased to announce that it has completed a Partnership Capital, minority investment, in […]
