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ICYMI: How Covid boosted pharma B2B
From October 2024: We must not be fooled by the way that investors toss around the word ‘data’ to justify business valuations. In this context, the word may not, of course, mean much more than…
Have you booked yet for our definitive AI event?
Tickets are selling fast for “The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events”. The Flashes & Flames one-day event takes place in Central London on 25 November. …
Could there be a surprise Clarion deal?
It's almost five months since we reported that Blackstone's planned auction of its UK-based Clarion Events, the world's third largest trade show organiser, would be impacted by fears of a US…
Strategies for pop-up newsletters…and next steps
The Times and National World share their tips for creating and executing successful limited run newsletters. They also outline their strategies for nurturing hard-won subscribers once the…
11 CEOs for ‘unique’ AI event
The speakers for “The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events” feature no fewer than 11 leading CEOs including: Jon Slade (Financial Times), Sean Cornwell (Immediate…
2020 Rewind: One-man mag cooks the books
Ed Needham is a Brit who spent almost two decades as editor in the UK and US of what became some of the world’s largest magazines, FHM, Maxim, and Rolling Stone. Those were the days. It…
How Meredith ‘saved’ Dotdash
It's almost four years since the livewire digital publisher Dotdash made a big splash by persuading its listed parent IAC to pay $2.7bn for Meredith, the largest magazine publisher in the US…
RIP: Derk Sauer media pioneer in Russia
Derk Sauer, the Dutch-born journalist, publisher, and entrepreneur who shaped modern Russian media with Western-style newspapers and magazines during the economic chaos of the post-Soviet…
‘Definitive AI Forum’ for London
The CEOs of Reach Plc, Immediate Media, PA Media Group, The Independent, Hearst UK, Terrapin Events, Newsquest, FT Strategies, Easyfairs and Global Water Intelligence are among the 20+…
Audio: Why FT app is best for retention
“Subscribers that are only or primarily on the app are 37% less likely to cancel than non-app users,” said the Financial Times’ Muj Ali at the MediaVoices ‘Publisher App Summit’,…
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