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Terms weren’t disclosed, though the NY Post reports Rockbridge paid $60 million for a majority stake

Dentsu Aegis Network has reached an agreement in principal to acquire Tempero, the UK-based social media management agency

Sky, which will retain an equity stake of 20% and a seat on the board of the business, said the sale will allow the business to focus on its newly-expanded pan-European pay-TV operation

According to a forecast by eMarketeer the UK operations of Google and Facebook will make a combined £4.1bn in 2015, a 50.8% share of the total expected to be spent on ads on websites, smartphones, online video and social media next year

Welcome to the world of sponsored content, in which advertisers pay to have their messages integrated with editorial content on a publisher’s site

In a RNS today WPP announces that its wholly-owned company, POSSIBLE, the global creative digital agency that is part of WPP Digital, has acquired The Swift Collective, Inc. (“Swift”) in the United States

Advertising spending in measured media in the U.K. is expected to show a 6.3% increase this year, the fastest growth of any major, mature consumer economy, and well ahead of the 4% global ad investment growth expected for 2014, according to a new forecast by WPP’s GroupM

In his GIGAOM blog Matthew Ingram says that we should be careful not to conflate the issue of declining staff levels in traditional newsrooms with the health of journalism overall

Times Newspapers (TNL) has posted a £1.7m operating profit for the year ending 30 June 2014, its first profitable year since 2001

In an RNS today ITE Group plc today announced that its wholly owned Turkish subsidiary, EUF, has signed a binding agreement to acquire 100% of the shareholding of TFF including Eurasia Rail exhibition

Operating profit margins declined by nearly a sixth in 2013 to just 11.9 per cent, the lowest level since 2004. The absolute level of profits also declined by 10 per cent in real terms year on year, with the top 40 making £68 million of operating profit compared to £73m last time round

Group M, the worldwide media buying arm of the market services company WPP, has forecast that the total UK ad market will hit £15.7bn in 2015. Within this online spend is forecast to grow 12.7% year-on-year to break the £8bn mark, making the UK the first in which more than £1 in every £2 of ad spend will go on digital media

TE has reported revenues of £175m (2013: £192m), and record headline profits before tax of £60m (2013: £59m) for the 2014 financial year

While true that print in general is in decline, faster in some segments than others (with some showing resilience and even growth) and faster in some markets than others, print alone cannot be held as the yardstick for magazine media’s health anymore

Breaking up Google is not the answer. Instead, she should come up with something that sensibly prepares for the future of search

The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday reported a 5% decline in total revenue to £536m. Print advertising revenues fell 5% while circulation revenues dropped 4%

The NEC Group, put up for sale by Birmingham City Council (BCC), could be slipping behind schedule for announcing a new owner, with fears that the deal is taking longer to complete than anticipated

Niche publishing company Rapid News Communications Group has concluded its purchase of plastics industry exhibition, Interplas, from Reed Exhibitions, for an undisclosed amount

N200 announced that they had been acquired by Global Experience Specialists (GES), a global event marketing company with a long history of connecting people through live events

The Sun newspaper has doubled its number of digital subscribers to 225,000, but failed to offset a decline in its overall paid readership, in a test case of whether tabloid newspapers can successfully charge for online content.