Havas’ organic growth was 5.1 per cent last year globally. The UK business recorded revenue of €286 million; an 18.7 per cent year-on-year increase. Organic growth for the UK was 4.4 per cent in 2015, described by the company as a strong performance against a high baseline
Business analytics division, helping companies detect fraud, moves centre stage
Publishers with more than 10m blocked ads have to pay 30% of the revenue from previously blocked ads to make it on to whitelist
When Apple said it was going to allow ad blocking on the iPhone version of its web browser last September, it escalated a conflict that had been building in the digital economy for years
Print will make up just 18 percent of the revenue mix by 2020 in the US, according a new survey by Connectiv
Stories about the reinvention of daily newspaper companies are often not what they seem. They tend to involve traditional media groups not so much investing in the future of news as placing their bets somewhere else entirely. Thus, the UK’s Daily Mail Group, and Hearst Corp, in the US, are investing more heavily in business media and entertainment. And even Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp is now generating 35% of its profit and all its growth from digital property listings
An “unethical, immoral, mendacious coven of techie wannabes” — that is how Randall Rothenberg, president of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, describes ad-blocking companies
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) made an operating profit of £51m last year, according to unaudited accounts leaked to the Guardian. That was £4m down on the previous year
Interpublic Group reported 6.1% organic revenue growth for 2015 on total revenues of $7.54 billion. The company’s organic growth in the fourth quarter of the year was 5.2% with total revenue of $2.2 billion
Dentsu Group has posted revenue of YEN 818.57 billion (£4.96 billion) for 2015 – a 12.8 per cent year on year increase. Gross profit for the Japanese group’s full year 2015 results stood at YEN 761.996 billion, a 12.6 per cent rise, with organic gross profit growth increasing by 7.0 per cent
Evgeny Lebedev and team have not yet made a final decision but he is expected to close 30-year-old titles
Twitter has reported a $521.03 million (£358.65 million) net loss for trading in 2015 and, for the first time, no growth in its user numbers.
In its fourth quarter earnings, the social media platform reported a net loss of $90.24 million (£62.11 million) for the three months up to 31 December, 2015
In October last year Ascential chief executive Duncan Painter sent a shockwave through the printing industry after he was quoted in the Guardian as saying that all of the firm’s print titles would become digital only “over the next 12 to 18 months”.
Conde-NastCondé Nast and Hearst Magazines Thursday announced the creation of a joint venture to combine circulation, procurement and production functions between the two companies. The new company, PubWorx LLC, will also seek to serve external clients
US B2B publisher aims to harness audience engagement, native ad integration with company-wide digital makeover
After twelve months since launch. the work-centric social network is shutting down its ad sales that appear outside of its walled garden
Front Events, the organiser of the FSE shows, has announced the launch of a new property finance exhibition
Apple is preparing to bring content from subscription publications to its News app, allowing subscribers to access paid content directly through the news service. That means they won’t have to visit the publisher’s app or Web site, according to Reuters
Headquartered in London, Ink Global is the largest publisher of inflight magazines in the world, producing magazines for 25 of the world’s largest airlines reaching the eyeballs of 656 million passengers annually. Editorial Director Kerstin Zumstein explains to Piet van Niekerk why she believes print magazines on aircrafts will be around for many years to come
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an will cut costs by 20 per cent, and could make some of its journalism available only to paying members, after a sharp fall in print advertising hit the newspaper’s financial performance
