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How Endeavor B2B is learning the hard way
In 2022, we reported that the four-year-old, Nashville-based Endeavor Business Media (EBM) was flying high in the US city best known for its country music and as a world leader in the…
DealMakers: biggest events boom since 2019
Welcome to the first DealMakers in Flashes & Flames of 2026. With the exception of the well-telegraphed acquisitions by the UK’s increasingly global Nineteen Group, I had thought – by the…
Have you booked Monetising B2B yet?
After last year’s sellout debut of our Monetising B2B Information & Events, companies and individuals are booking quickly for this year’s event which takes place in London on…
Using AI for efficiency AND integrity
At the heart of publishing’s AI conundrum lies the tension between maintaining public trust and the opportunity to exploit operational efficiencies crucial to commercial sustainability. At our…
Hoffmann rescues US news group
We farewell 2025 as the year when Hearst, the US veteran news publisher, paid a cool $88mn (a share price premium of some 270%) for the listed Dallas Morning News group, despite Hearst's…
The Year in Media 2025: 240 pages of holiday reading from Flashes & Flames in an eventful year
It's that time again. For your holiday reading (or re-reading), here's our eBook of the 43 best-read deepdives from Flashes & Flames in 2025. We immodestly describe the collection as "The…
Boats Group 2x value in 4 years
The US-based Boats Group (described as the global marine industry’s largest search engine) was this month acquired by private equity firm General Atlantic and the Canada Pension Fund…
MediaVoices: the year’s Top 10
Here’s the top 10 episodes and articles of 2025 from our colleagues at MediaVoices. If you’re new here or haven’t yet signed up to our weekly newsletter, here’s what our audience were…
Book now for Monetising B2B Information & Events in 2026…
Flashes & Flames is proud to announce the return of Monetising B2B Information & Events in 2026. The one-day conference this year was a sell-out programme of industry leaders sharing…
What next for Questex?
It’s eight months since President Trump declared his Liberation Day wave of tariffs or sanctions on many US trading partners including China, Canada and the EU. The potential disruption had a…
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