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Why is Dotdash buying Meredith?
Ever since the perennially lossmaking AOL merged with the highly-profitable Time Warner, at the dawn of the internet,…
12 November 2021
How I do it: Kevin Costello, Haymarket
Kevin Costello is CEO of the Haymarket Media Group (£143m revenue/ £8m EBITDA in 2019-20) which he joined…
12 November 2021
How The Economist missed out
FiscalNote, the Washington DC-based legal data and analytics company, is to float via a SPAC deal with Duddell…
11 November 2021
Peter Jackson’s VFX tech sold
San Francisco-based 3D game developer Unity Software is buying the tech division of New Zealand-based Weta Digital in…
11 November 2021
Streaming slowdown
The Information has reported that “the streaming wars are starting to get interesting”. Disney reported a dramatic slowdown…
11 November 2021
iMedia buys 123tv
Minneapolois-based iMedia Brands, owner of a range of TV networks, consumer brands and digital services, has bought 123tv,…
11 November 2021
Recurrent buys auto channels
Recurrent Ventures, the private equity-backed, Florida-based owner of Field & Stream, Saveur, The Drive, Popular Science, and Car…
11 November 2021
Endeavour buys 3DX Media
The acquisitive four-year-old Endeavour Business Media which publishes Machine Design, Power & Motion and Hydraulics & Pneumatics, has…
11 November 2021
Enhesa acquires HCB
Enhesa, the private equity owned, Belgium-based content and consulting company – which claims to be the market leader…
11 November 2021
Houston Press sold
Voice Media Group, a publisher of five newspaper titles in southern US cities, has sold the Houston Press,…
11 November 2021