The Top Right Group, parent company of i2i Events Group and Lions Festivals, has released its financial results for 2014, reporting revenue in excess of £300m (US$456m) for the first time
Messe Frankfurt has unveiled plans to bring its automotive supply chain show, Automechanika, to the UK for the first time next year
The fast growth of streaming services and pay-TV are “challenging the very premise of mandatory fees”, according to a study by PwC.
Almost 300 years ago, a posh Brit called Edward Cave published the world’s first magazine. Last week, 300 metres from the London birthplace of The Gentleman’s Magazine, Cave’s 21st century successors were whipping themselves into a frenzy of enthusiasm that belied industry statistics of falling revenue, profit and readership
Broadway Events, organiser of Childcare Expo has announced the launch of a Manchester edition to be held at EventCity next year
Founder of the Week, on why the magazine has become more relevant, why it hasn’t changed in 20 years – and his saviour Felix Dennis
Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, has reported an operating profit before exceptional items of £54.9m for 2014
The value of medical journals in providing physicians, researchers and other medical professionals an honest glimpse of the latest relevant, peer-reviewed medical science has greatly diminished in recent years. An extensive review published in the journal PLOS Medicine shows that medical journals today serve as little more than marketing platforms for pharmaceutical companies to push their drugs with little in the r the way of unbiased science
Lorna Tilbian argues that “a continued rebound in corporate profitability and consumer spending should result in growth in display newspaper advertising”.
Nine media organisations, including the BBC, through its youth-oriented Newsbeat service, the Guardian and the New York Times, have struck a deal with Facebook to publish some of their content directly through the social network rather than simply hosting it on their own sites as part of a trial.
Sarah McConville, vice president of marketing at Harvard Business Review (HBR) Group and publisher of Harvard Business Review Press spoke to Jon Watkins about how data and analytics are driving the evolution of the HBR brand
Mail Online’s revenues increased by 20% to £36m in the six months to the end of March, a sharp slowdown compared with last year and not enough to offset the advertising and sales decline at the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday. Its owner, Daily Mail & General Trust, said total revenue across its Mail businesses fell by 4% to £296m compared with the same period last year
ESP Properties will be dedicated to serving sports and entertainment rightsholders. GroupM, the world’s leading media investment management company, today announced it is expanding its sports and entertainment offering under a new global agency brand, ESP
Hero: Chris Anderson: He is the former magazine publisher, journalist and internet entrepreneur who is the ‘curator’ of TED, responsible for the eponymous conference which began 31 years ago in Monterey and has been a world-watching annual event since 1990
Several mobile operators plan to block advertising on their networks, setting the stage for a battle with digital media companies such as Google, AOL and Yahoo
From humble beginnings, MediaWeek’s former publisher Emap went on to become ‘one of the most admired media companies in the world’. Here, Colin Morrison recalls how it got there, and the collapse that was to follow
From printed page to web page, the medium has been reinvented, says Immediate Media’s Tom Bureau.
It’s less than a day after the news that the telecommunications giant Verizon is buying AOL for $4.4 billion rocked the tech and publishing industries, so it’s no surprise that there are still unanswered questions about the deal. Not least among those questions is what will happen to AOL’s digital publishing efforts like Huffington Post […]
BSkyB, now (again) re-named Sky, has had a remarkable quarter-century – and not only with its pioneering and innovative coverage of British football. It owns and operates the UK’s largest portfolio of pay TV channels across entertainment, sports, movies – and also news. For the full blog read Flashes&Flames
Havas reported organic growth of 7.1% and a revenue increase of 20.6% to $525 million for the first quarter of 2015. The strongest regions were North America, with revenue up 10.2% to $199 million, and Asia Pacific and Africa, where revenue grew by 10.1% to $40 million. Within that region, revenue in China wasup 17%. […]
