Colin Morrison
1254 posts
DriveTribe: an over-priced model
Two news startups tell the story about fundraising for media. First is BuzzFeed which raised $450m from a…
5 February 2021
AgriBriefing buys €2m Tallage
UK-based AgriBriefing has bought French company Tallage, provider of market data for agricultural markets across Europe, including grain,…
4 February 2021
Bertlesmann to sell M6 TV
Bertelsmann (the privately-owned majority shareholder in European broadcaster RTL) has reportedly approached potential bidders including Vivendi, Altice and…
30 January 2021
Why Centaur +Wilmington is inevitable
Centaur Media, the UK owner of eConsultancy, Influencer Intelligence, The Lawyer, and Marketing Week, has had many more…
29 January 2021
How Future made it all work
This time last year, Future Plc was negotiating to get its acquisition of TI Media approved by the…
29 January 2021
How can ‘The Sun’ survive?
One day, the obituaries may find it easy to list Rupert Murdoch’s achievements as the first global media entrepreneur:…
22 January 2021
Shanken: publisher of pleasure
The publisher Marvin Shanken may have smiled to himself (or not) as the outgoing President Trump metaphorically declared…
22 January 2021
“Tech takes on media”
Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz (known by insiders as a16z) is expanding its own media activity by…
22 January 2021
The revolution at Bauer
Eight years ago, Yvonne Bauer (the fifth generation head of the family-owned Bauer Media Group) was on top…
15 January 2021
How virtual events must change
It may not feel like it, but these are the golden times for many organisers of virtual events.…
15 January 2021