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Haymarket US today launched Rheumatology Advisor, the seventh new brand in the Medical Advisor Network.

Rheumatology Advisor will provide practical clinical information and resources to assist clinicians who have patients affected by rheumatologic conditions. Key features include: concise daily news, drug monographs from the MPR database, full-length clinical features, unique rheumatology-related case studies, clinical charts, continuing medical education courses, and coverage from major conferences

River Street Events have announced the launch of three new BBC Good Food Shows for 2015/16 including the brand’s first ever international BBC Good Food Show. The three new events will take place at Hampton Court Palace, Dubai World Trade Centre and London Excel. The new shows will enable the BBC Good Food brand to reach new audiences and will see the BBC Good Food Show portfolio delivering over 300,000 targeted visitors in 2016 across a total portfolio of 11 BBC Good Food Shows

The popular streaming video service outdid Wall Street expectations for the quarter by a full five cents per share and added 5.59 million new viewers

The advertising industry’s rapid shift to digital formats is providing a boon to fraudsters, who will cost brands $7.2bn this year, up from $6.3bn in 2015, according to new research

Penthouse Magazine is closing the books on its print edition after more than 50 years on the newsstands. The once-scandalous men’s magazine will continue being distributed online, with all of its subscriptions migrating to PenthouseMagazine.com

Ad spend is still the lifeblood of most publishers, even as they grapple with the decision of which form that advertising should take. So it’s no surprise that we’d pay attention to reports like the quarterly bellwethers from the Institute of Practioners in Advertising (IPA), which examines trends in marketing spend over the previous three months

Magazine has been credited with spreading the women’s liberation movement in Australia in the 1970s under founding editor Ita Buttrose

Apple has passed 10m subscribers for its music streaming service, taking six months to hit a milestone that took its arch-rival Spotify six years to hit, say people familiar with the matter

When Netflix chief executive Reed Hastings took to the stage in Las Vegas on Wednesday to announce the streaming service’s expansion into a further 130 countries, he told the audience they were “witnessing the birth of a global TV network”.

The problem our industry faces with ad tech is a lot like the issue with gun control. Guns are great tools. They are very useful if you want to shoot a deer or protect your home. But with almost no regulations — and a whole lot of bad guys out there who would ignore them even if they existed — we wind up with a situation where guns are everywhere, from the hands of the ultra-responsible to the dangerously sloppy to the outright criminal.
This is just like the Wild West landscape of advertising technology — and while nobody dies, the consequences to the ad industry have been undeniably egregious.

Haymarket, the international media group, has today filed annual accounts showing an 8.7% per cent rise in operating profits to £5.03m (2014: £4.6m) on revenues of £184.3m (2014: £187.0m) in the financial year ending June 30, 2015, amid solid demand in its consumer media, business information and events operations

It’s a fair bet that 2016 will be the year of ever more ambitious collaborations between traditional media and digital disrupters. We have seen the Alibaba and Jeff Bezos acquisitions of the South China Post and the Washington Post respectively, the Axel Springer buy-out of Business Insider, and legacy media investments in BuzzFeed, Vox, and Vice News. These will surely be followed by a new wave of deals and collaborations. But with a difference

The loss follows a pre-tax profit of £11.1m the previous year, which saw a boost from property disposals worth £16.4million

MCM has revealed plans to broaden its offerings within the UK and Ireland, as well as rolling out new events across mainland Europe

published a piece by our contributor Kevin Anderson titled ‘The collapse of the attention economy’. Its central tenet is that an overabundance of content to which we all have access has led to an unsustainable environment in which scale is all and practically impossible to achieve.

For a long time, we’ve been creating too much content, so much so that I think that we’ve already reached Peak Content, the point at which this glut of things to read, watch and listen to becomes completely unsustainable. There hasn’t been enough ad revenue to sustain it for years and, with 2015 ending with a rush of acquisitions, consolidations and funding rounds with eye-watering valuations, 2016 will mark the beginning of a shake out.

The Adblock Plus revenue model has long been a contentious one. Adblock Plus charges some companies to appear on its “Acceptable Ads” list — a white list that allows some un-interruptive ads to be served to its users. Confirming a Financial Times article published earlier this year, large entities — which it qualifies as those […]

Time Inc UK – home to country and sporting titles The Field, Shooting Gazette, Shooting Times, Sporting Gun, Country Life and Horse & Hound – further expands its portfolio of events with the launch of the Field & Country Fair, celebrating the British countryside and field sports.

Plexus, part of Ascential (formerly Top Right Group), has been working with Abacus e-Media on a major project to upgrade fifteen major brands to the latest version of the Webvision CMS.

Newspapers have become the least popular medium people use to keep up to date with news and current affairs, according to new research from Ofcom.