i2i has chosen to host Money20/20 Europe in Copenhagen next year, with a view to accelerating its international growth. The European edition of Money20/20 will launch at the Bella Center in the Danish capital, on 5–7 April 2016, with an expected 3,000 delegates in attendance
The UK’s biggest website for second-hand car sales had set the price for its initial public offering at 235p-per-share, giving it a market value of £2.35bn
Havas reported today that net income for 2014 grew 9.4% to 140 million euros (about $149 million at today’s exchange rate). Operating profit margin for the year was 14.1%, up three-tenths of a percent. Last month Havas reported that it had a 5.2% full-year 2014 revenue gain to 1.865 billion euros (approximately $2.126 billion) and organic growth for […]
With the Readly app, Imagine magazines will be available on iOS and Android devices in 250 countries. The app, which has been described as “the Spotify or Netflix of reading”, offers unlimited content at a low fixed price. Imagine’s portfolio of magazines includes How It Works, All About History, iCreate, Digital Photographer, Photoshop Creative, Games™, History of War and World of Animals
The Guardian, the Financial Times, CNN International, Reuters and the Economist have teamed up to pool their digital advertising space, to fight back against the drain of ad spend to tech giants such as Microsoft, Google and Facebook
Time was when business-to-business media groups seemed the least likely to be disrupted by the web. Media executives routinely boasted that the success of occupational business magazines for everyone from engineers to doctors and farmers to retailers was based on “need to know” information – rather than the “nice to know”content of, say, consumer magazines
UK-headquartered event management agency Ashfield Meetings & Events has expanded its US footprint and opened a new office on the west coast of the US in San Bruno, California.This supplements the existing office locations in Ivyland, Pennsylvania and Indianapolis, Indiana
Several leading publishers throughout the globe have teamed to form the Pangaea Alliance, a digital ad offering fueled by programmatic. Founding partners of Pangaea include The Guardian, CNN International, Financial Times and Reuters
Called Economist Films, the unit promises “high-end, factual programmes that capture the voice and identity of The Economist”. The service will be available for brands to sponsor an episode or a series, but they will have no influence over the editorial content, the publisher has clarified. The Economist launched an expanded native advertising offering in […]
The European arm of Politico will go live online on 21 April with more than 40 journalists spread across the continent as the US media outlet aims to fulfil its ambitions to become “the dominant politics and policy publication in Europe”
Founded in 2006 by former Forbes columnist Om Malik, the influential blog covered the growth of the Silicon Valley startup scene alongside rivals such as TechCrunch. In recent years, it also branched out into research and events such as the Structure Connect conference.
WPP has lodged a bid for the customer data company that created the Tesco clubcard. A source with knowledge of the talks confirmed that the world’s largest advertising group had made an approach for Tesco-owned Dunnhumby, which gathers and analyses data from almost 1 billion shoppers around the world
WPP reported full-year sales and profit increases in line with analyst expectations on Monday and told investors to expect similar growth rates in 2015 as clients focus on cutting costs and rival agencies offer aggressive discounts
According to new research from The Diffusion Group (TDG), Netflix streaming has increased 350% during the last 10 quarters
Native advertising is heating up in digital media these days, and there are plenty of reasons why publishers should get excited. To start, a recent study from BI Intelligence forecasts native ad spend in the US to hit $7.9 billion this year (a 69% increase from 2013) and reach $21 billion by 2018. Publishers, that’s significant revenue opportunity up for grabs
The UK commercial broadcaster said that net advertising revenues would grow 11 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2015 — slightly above analysts’ estimates, boosted by spending being brought forward due to the UK general election. In 2014, ad revenues rose 6 per cent to £1.6bn
Ask an M&A banker how things are going they will invariably tell you that ‘the pipeline looks good’ – an incantation so frequently recited that it is beginning to take on the character of prayer
A statement from Reed said: “After two successful editions of IBTM India, we have decided to take time out in 2015 to undertake further research and analysis of India’s dynamic and growing MICE market
Last year was officially the year of the failed merger. According to new data from the ONS, there were fewer mergers and acquisitions involving UK companies in 2014 than in any year since 1987, when ONS records begin.
UBM’s aquisition of Advanstar in December created the largest US events business by revenue and a global industry giant
