Deals

WPP has made an investment in Refinery29, a fashion and lifestyle media company, for $50 million through its WPP Ventures arm

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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”.

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 […]

The sale price, revealed during Meredith’s earnings call today, is $60 million up front, with a profit sharing arrangement that will be paid out in Meredith’s fiscal 2018, estimated to be 3.5 times first-year cash flow. Also included in the deal are Shape’s digital assets, as well as the digital assets for Natural Health and […]

Vivendi, the owner of Universal Music Group and Canal Plus, this week entered exclusive talks with Orange to acquire a majority stake in Dailymotion, the online video site. The deal will be the first of many, Mr de Puyfontaine (Vivendi CEO) tells the Financial Times in an interview amid visits to Vivendi’s US-based shareholders. For the full […]

The first show under the new ownership is the UK Summer Motorhome and Caravan Show scheduled for The Kent Showground, Detling, on June 6 and 7. The other events now coming under Mortons’ banner are the UK Spring Motorhome and Caravan Show as well as the UK Autumn Motorhome and Caravan Show, both held at the […]

The Chelsea Magazine Company has acquired three specialist coffee-table consumer titles – The English Home, The English Garden and Discover Britain – from Archant Community Media for an undisclosed sum. Following its acquisition of Little Media in 2014, The Chelsea Magazine Company continues to expand its portfolio, which now includes 15 titles in three distinct groups – Parenting, […]

Haymarket Media, Inc, is pleased to announce the acquisition of Group DCA—an interactive digital communications agency specializing in multi-channel engagement of health care providers—from PDI Inc.

Rumours about a possible acquisition of Twitter have started surfacing yet again. Earlier this week, Twitter’s shares rose by up to 4.8% as rumours of Google and Yahoo planning a potential buyout started surfacing.

The French media conglomerate Vivendi is looking at a possible skyacquisition of pay-TV group Sky, as one of several options to expand the reach of its own TV group Canal Plus

ITV is on the verge of paying up to $950m (£630m) for the TV division of The Weinstein Company, the production studio set up by veteran film and TV producer Harvey Weinstein and his brother Bob, according to reports

TEN, The Enthusiast Network, announced its acquisition of TORQUE.TV, as it looks towards a summer launch of a new over-the-top video platform

Vox Media, the US digital publisher, has bought a data science start-up as it looks to track more closely how readers view, share and interact with content across the internet

Next Fifteen Communications, parent company of PR firms including Lexis and Bite, has spent £5.4m to secure outright ownership of digital design agency Beyond and content marketing agency Republic Publishing