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Media Futures Survey 2020
The annual Media Futures Survey has, for 11 years, tracked the long-term trends of UK media companies across a…
6 November 2020
MediaFutures goes TransAtlantic
We’re in the news. Flashes & Flames has teamed up with the UK’s Wessenden Marketing consultancy and Folio,…
26 June 2020
Scrap the office, trust people
One of the lasting effects of the Covid-19 crisis and enforced home-working may be a change in the…
1 May 2020
Time for creativity in the crisis
It’s a frightening time for people and companies everywhere. The Coronavirus crisis has also prompted high levels of community…
21 March 2020
Unruly sold for cut-price
The £200m, Israel-based video adtech company Tremor is acquiring the video advertising platform Unruly from News Corp in…
9 January 2020
Our 19 best reads in 2019
It has been the best 12 months so far for Flashes & Flames, as measured by our rising…
20 December 2019
What Bloomberg teaches us
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, is spending millions of dollars to campaign for the…
13 December 2019
Moonbug buys Supa Strikas
All Media. Moonbug, global children’s entertainment company, has acquired South African video and comic brand Supa Strikas. Moonbug is…
23 August 2019
How Future got back to £1bn…
All media. Future Plc, the UK-based tech and special interest publisher is acquiring SmartBrief, the privately-owned US based…
23 August 2019
Axel Springer goes private
Germany’s Axel Springer has approved the arrangements whereby KKR private equity will acquire the company’s outstanding shares and…
11 July 2019