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Spotify podcast ad deals
Spotify this week announced the acquisition of Podsights – a podcast advertising measurement system – and Chartable – a podcast…
Forbes IPO is on
Business magazine brand Forbes and Magnum Opus, a SPAC (special purpose acquisition corporation) have announced a $200m investment…
Archant mags sold
East of England local news publisher Archant – whose private equity owner is negotiating to sell to the…
Carousell Singapore deal
Carousell, the Singapore-based smartphone and web-based consumer-to-consumer and business-to-consumer marketplace for new and secondhand goods. is in talks…
Broadcast buys Rapid TV News
Media Business Insight (MBI), the UK-based, private equity owned publisher of Broadcast and Screen International, has acquired the…
ITV heads for golden breakup
The long-term winners in media will be those which develop real ownership of the relationship with their viewers-readers-users. These direct-to-consumer…
Can the Tortoise win?
Two weeks ago, the UK's 'partygate' scandal raged and the news media raced to out-hot-take itself on government…
How I do it: Philip Soar, CloserStill
Philip Soar is chair of CloserStill Media, the 14-year-old, UK-based organiser of more than 70 B2B exhibitions in…
Informa gets £1.9bn for pharma
Informa, the UK-listed exhibitions and information group, is selling its Pharma Intelligence to Warburg Pincus private equity for…
Dotdash drops 5 mags
Dotdash Meredith (DM) is shutting the print editions of five of the former Meredith Corp’s magazines, InStyle, Entertainment Weekly, Eating…