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Messenger: end of an ads-funded dream?
Plenty of new media business launches have been met with skepticism, often undue. The New European, in the UK, was laughed at as a print experiment in the digital age, but has proved…
25 January 2024
5 minute read
Is it a Telegraph springboard or not?
After two months of public controversy, the UK’s competition and media regulators will – next Friday (26 Jan) – recommend to the government whether to undertake a comprehensive six-month+…
19 January 2024
8 minute read
What will Informa do next?
It’s not just media companies that can be frustrated by listed company investors. But, as Ascential completed its B2B reorganisation sell-off that more than doubled the total value that…
19 January 2024
4 minute read
How I do it: Jason Young, Northstar Travel Group
Jason Young is CEO of the New Jersey, US-based Northstar Travel Group which claims to be the world's leading B2B information and events company serving the travel and hospitality industries,…
19 January 2024
6 minute read
Can radio keep hold of audio?
The two largest radio broadcasters in the United States have been made bankrupt in the past few years (one very recently) in moves which underline a systemic threat to what has long been a…
12 January 2024
7 minute read
What tech’s ‘lonely hearts club band’ means to media
Hampton, the US membership community for tech entrepreneurs, will be celebrating its first anniversary in March with something few of its members can ever have experienced: instant…
12 January 2024
7 minute read
The hopes and fears of media in 2024
A New Year is meant to be full of possibilities and opportunities, a chance to look ahead optimistically. For media businesses, however, the outlook in 2024 is at least as much about…
11 January 2024
6 minute read
Is Daily Upside the future?
This may be the year when we read (or write) the obituaries of the 17-year-old BuzzFeed whose revolutionary exploitation of content shared via social media platforms once thrilled investors…
5 January 2024
6 minute read
What Mike Danson does next
In a move which may have far-reaching consequences for private equity, the UK listed GlobalData has agreed to sell a 40% shareholding in its healthcare division to Inflexion. The deal values…
5 January 2024
4 minute read
How I do it: Hugo Drayton, ex Future
Hugo Drayton is former managing director of Telegraph Media Group and CEO of Inskin digital advertising. For the last nine years (he steps down later this month), he has been a non-executive…
5 January 2024
7 minute read
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