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Omnicom warned that the strong US dollar would weigh on revenues this year, as it reported higher revenues and profit in the fourth quarter

Millennials could not be more different to the baby boomers who built the current media industry during 50 years of revenue boom – before the web pushed the walls down.

Declining sales, advertising and subscriptions hurt revenues at Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper business in the final quarter of last year, News Corp has reported

The Guardian has overhauled its site, trumpeting a flurry of advertising opportunities it hopes will fuel on-going efforts to sell advertisers on reader attention not clicks

According to FIPP Emap apps with Kaldor Content and subscription business Emap has launched apps for its Architectural Review, Retail Jeweller and Ground Engineering brands

Sky’s highest customer growth in the UK in nearly a decade helped the satellite broadcaster post a 16% rise in adjusted operating profit in its first results since its £5bn acquisition of Sky Italia and Sky Deutschland

DMGT’s Q1 trading update reveals mixed fortunes with underlying growth at 1%

Marcoms group Creston has issued an interim statement for the third quarter, reporting group revenue up just 1% year-on-year, resulting it says from a combination of client budget cuts and project delays within its UK health business

UBM India has shut down all of its technology publications and is probably looking to exit the media business, three senior executives who were with the company confirmed to MediaNama

We often think of digital textbooks as being read on iPads, and Apple rolled out iBooks Author, which lets users create textbooks and other interactive ebooks, in 2012. But Amazon, not surprisingly, wants in on the self-published textbook action, and on Thursday launched Kindle Textbook Creator, a beta tool that lets users convert graphics-heavy PDFs […]

PR Newswire: UBM India, India’s largest live media and events company announced their maiden show Personal Care India Expo 2015

UBM Asia Ltd expects the exhibition market in Asean to grow by an average of 10 percent per annum in the next five years

Advertisers and agencies are already sold on programmatic, but in 2015 we will see publishers fully embrace programmatic technology as they begin to realise the huge opportunity it represents for efficiency and financial growth

In the past, content brands often required local partners to enable their internationalisation strategy, requiring local content, advertising, logistics and brand development support in expanding to new markets

UBM has cut 70-80 positions as it continues its reorganization under its events-first strategy, Folio: has learned. The cuts have happened over the last couple of days and are primarily centered in its UBM Tech division, representing brands that don’t directly support the event- and community-centric strategy. For the full story read Folio

Local language sites will debut in Sweden, Norway and Denmark in the first quarter of 2015, and Cosmopolitan Nigeria was unveiled in late December. The company is looking at other African nations, including Ghana, Kenya and Botswana, said Duncan Edwards, chief executive of Hearst Magazines International.

Immediate Media has reported a 75% rise in profits to £14.3m in its last financial year. Immediate Media, which struck a £121m deal with BBC Magazines to buy, licence or contract publish its 34 titles in 2011, saw group operating profits rise from £8.2m to £14.4m in the year to the end of March 2014

When the initial wave of native advertising began just a few years ago, the advertisers were predominantly publishers, not advertisers in the traditional sense.

Sky is facing the strongest competition in its 25-year history — with telecoms groups BT and Liberty Global on one flank, and online challengers such as Netflix and Google, on the other. In the past three years, its shares have underperformed all of those rivals

It’s a hit with the millennial generation and predicts revenue of $1bn this year, so what can young company teach its rivals