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DMG Events out of the shadows
Three years ago this month, the quaintly-named Daily Mail & General Trust became wholly-owned by its founding family and delisted from the London Stock Exchange after 90 years as a public…
Monetising media in the era of AI
Remember Google Books? The early 2000s project that aimed to digitise all the world’s books and create a vast online library? It was an ambitious initiative that excited many but also…
Easyfairs is 63% up on 2019
Easyfairs reported revenue growth of 20% in its last year before acquisition by private equity. The €229 revenue for the year ending 30 June 2024 was 37% up on pre-pandemic 2019. EBITDA, at…
London tries local TV – again
The most surprising thing for many in the UK about the sale of London Live, the local TV channel launched by Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev a decade ago, will have been that it was…
Time to book for “Monetising B2B”
Industry leaders including Mark Kelsey (RELX Risk), Philip Soar (CloserStill Media), Mark Allen (Mark Allen Group), Charlie Kerr (With Intelligence), Rory Brown (Realfin) and Paul Miller…
Will 2025 be the M&A rebound?
In the US, investment bankers are predicting a big year in M&A. Stockmarkets are near all-time highs with inflation and interest rates (more or less) stabilised. It all seems to point to a…
Major B2B conference for London in 2025
Flashes & Flames this week announces its “Monetising B2B Information and Events” conference in London on 20 May 2025. Described as “a conference with a difference”, it will feature case…
Trousdale quietly makes it work
Patrick Trousdale, the founder of The Daily Upside, really is a different kind of media entrepreneur. For one, he started out in media by seeking a partner which – after a cold email…
Will Montgomery buy the Telegraph?
David Montgomery, the veteran UK newspaper executive who is losing control of his listed local news group National World Plc to its largest shareholder, may be set to acquire Telegraph Media…
How FHM magazine got away with it
They say ‘A Golden Age’ is a time when things work in such a way as to make you believe they will work that way forever. It was like that with the British magazine FHM. Beforehand,…
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