With the Readly app, Imagine magazines will be available on iOS and Android devices in 250 countries. The app, which has been described as “the Spotify or Netflix of reading”, offers unlimited content at a low fixed price. Imagine’s portfolio of magazines includes How It Works, All About History, iCreate, Digital Photographer, Photoshop Creative, Games™, History of War and World of Animals
The Guardian, the Financial Times, CNN International, Reuters and the Economist have teamed up to pool their digital advertising space, to fight back against the drain of ad spend to tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook
Time was when business-to-business media groups seemed the least likely to be disrupted by the web. Media executives routinely boasted that the success of occupational business magazines for everyone from engineers to doctors and farmers to retailers was based on “need to know” information – rather than the “nice to know”content of, say, consumer magazines
UK-headquartered event management agency Ashfield Meetings & Events has expanded its US footprint and opened a new office on the west coast of the US in San Bruno, California.This supplements the existing office locations in Ivyland, Pennsylvania and Indianapolis, Indiana
Several leading publishers throughout the globe have teamed to form the Pangaea Alliance, a digital ad offering fueled by programmatic. Founding partners of Pangaea include The Guardian, CNN International, Financial Times and Reuters
Publicis Groupe has acquired Expicient Inc. a leading global omni-channel services firm with significant expertise in inventory and order management systems (OMS), a capability that clients increasingly need to manage inventory, pricing and offers across channels for today’s connected consumer who moves fluidly across digital and physical stores
Following a successful City roadshow, led by chief executive Trevor Mather, books were closed early yesterday on the £2billion-plus flotation of Auto Trader, which operates Britain’s leading website for buying and selling new and used cars
Called Economist Films, the unit promises “high-end, factual programmes that capture the voice and identity of The Economist”. The service will be available for brands to sponsor an episode or a series, but they will have no influence over the editorial content, the publisher has clarified. The Economist launched an expanded native advertising offering in […]
Trinity Mirror are in talks with Richard Desmond about potentially buying the Daily Express
The European arm of Politico will go live online on 21 April with more than 40 journalists spread across the continent as the US media outlet aims to fulfil its ambitions to become “the dominant politics and policy publication in Europe”
An investment company aiming to buy telecoms, media and technology companies in a consolidating European market has received backing from a range of institutional funds managed by Neil Woodford, Fidelity and Standard Life
Unibail-Rodamco SE, Europe’s largest listed commercial property company, and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris Ile-deFrance (CCIR) have entered into an agreement with U.K.-based private equity firm Charterhouse to take over Unibail’s 50 percent stake in Comexposium. This offer values Comexposium at €550 million ($816 million)
Founded in 2006 by former Forbes columnist Om Malik, the influential blog covered the growth of the Silicon Valley startup scene alongside rivals such as TechCrunch. In recent years, it also branched out into research and events such as the Structure Connect conference.
ITV has bought the makers of BBC1’s The Voice, Dutch production company Talpa Media, for £355m in a deal that could end up costing more than double that
WPP has lodged a bid for the customer data company that created the Tesco clubcard. A source with knowledge of the talks confirmed that the world’s largest advertising group had made an approach for Tesco-owned Dunnhumby, which gathers and analyses data from almost 1 billion shoppers around the world
The flotation, which would probably propel Auto Trader into the FTSE 250 index, would value the company at 14-18 times its last reported earnings before interest, taxation, depreciation and amortisation.
Easyfairs has acquired Tank Storage Magazine – the market leading publication for the tank storage industry. The development is part of the company’s strategy to strengthen its support of the markets within which it operates.
Diversified Communications has acquired The Sleeter Group, Inc., founded by Doug Sleeter, operates a membership community that provides professional training and development through an annual conference, membership networking forums, webinars, books, exams, newsletters, blogs and research services
WPP reported full-year sales and profit increases in line with analyst expectations on Monday and told investors to expect similar growth rates in 2015 as clients focus on cutting costs and rival agencies offer aggressive discounts
According to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), Netflix streaming has increased 350% during the last 10 quarters
