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NME staff are understood to have been told that discussions have been held with promoters and partners about the prospect of the magazine going free

UBM Asia will be organising the first Business4Better China (B4B China), a non-profit event for establishing community partnership projects, from 15 – 16 July 2015 at Shanghai KIC Conference Center, China.

When it comes to digital-to-print developments, commentators often refer to internet pureplays entering the world of print – Net-a-Porter with Porter, Airbnb with Pineapple, and so on

French advertising holding company Havas achieved 3.5 percent organic sales growth on revenue of 551 million euros in the fourth quarter, finishing a strong year driven by new contract wins and strength in Britain and emerging markets

Alex Northcott sets up new media database for PRs four months after selling his former business for up to £200m. Alex Northcott, who founded Gorkana in March 2003, has launched Roxhill Media with two other former staff of the digital PR jobs and media industry information company

The march of native advertising continued this week, as Forbes dispensed with another traditional taboo. It put a native ad on the cover of its print edition for the March 2, 2015 issue, due out on newsstands on Monday.

WPP research and data unit Kantar continues to restructure around strategic alliances giving it a better footing in the global audience measurement marketplace

Publicis Groupe reported that consolidated revenue grew 4.3% to $9.625 billion in 2014, driven by stronger fourth-quarter organic growth of 3.2%

Once the takeover has been completed, the joint venture will be called ITEMF Expo AO. Comtrans and Autotrans are important events in Russia for commercial vehicles, buses and special vehicles.

Following a successful Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) in Milan, with over 2,000 exhibitors and over 35,000 visitors, Reed Exhibitions has announced two new events this year. Reed are launching MCE Asia in Singapore and MCE Saudi in Riyadh later this year

Montgomery Group has announced the purchase of international event for professionals in aid and development, AidEx, from Centaur Media

The Mission Marketing Group plc, the marketing communications and advertising group, has announced the acquisition of Edinburgh-based The Weather Digital and Print Communications Limited

HS Inc. (NYSE: IHS), a leading global source of critical information and insight, today announced it has acquired Rushmore Reviews, a Scotland-based company that provides premium, subscription-based service for drilling and completions benchmarking solutions in the oil and gas industry

Interpublic reported relatively strong results for fourth-quarter and full-year 2014, beating its financial targets for the year and bringing its operating margin closer to “fully competitive,” Chairman-CEO Michael Roth said in a statement released Friday morning

Informa has written down the value of Datamonitor by almost 40 per cent, eight years after the business media group acquired the market intelligence company for £500m

Publicis Groupe has reported pre-tax income of €1.04 billion, down 5.5 per cent after what its chief executive and chairman, Maurice Lévy, has described as a “patchy year”

The picture is stark – people in the UK are continuing to buy fewer magazines, with total circulations in the marketplace tumbling by more than 15 million copies in 2014.

The Time Inc UK title, launched as New Musical Express, had an average weekly print circulation of just 13,995 in the second half of last year, down 23% on the same period in 2013, according to Audit Bureau of Circulations figures published on Thursday

Premier League clubs are celebrating another huge windfall after competition between BT and Sky drove the overall value of the live TV rights to more than £5.14bn over three seasons.

Time Inc has partnered with ad tech company MediaMath to launch what it claims to be the first “programmatic print” offering for advertisers