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‘Monetising B2B Information & Events’: the full programme
The full programme for the Flashes & Flames conference ‘Monetising B2B Information & Events’ has now been finalised. The event takes place on Tuesday 20 May, 2025,…
15 April 2025
2 minute read
How vulnerable is GlobalData?
There's nothing like the word 'data' for exciting investors. It triggers thoughts of exclusive content, the very antidote to AI's commoditisation of information. Perfectly good companies feel…
11 April 2025
9 minute read
How I do it: Mariana Valle, Insurance Insider
Mariana Valle is CEO of Insurance Insider. She started out as a journalist and became a financial specialist, first for Mergermarket and then as managing editor and head of leveraged finance…
11 April 2025
7 minute read
Is this the future of weekend newspapers?
Graydon Carter recently (sort of) confirmed that he was still in talks to sell/ refinance his Air Mail newsletter. But reports of an impending sale first started back in February 2024, so…
10 April 2025
7 minute read
What’s next for Haymarket?
Haymarket Media Group, of the UK, shares its one-of-a-kind character with the man who created the family-owned magazines-to-digital business back in 1957. Michael Heseltine was the ambitious…
4 April 2025
5 minute read
‘B2B is changing less than you think’
Sean Griffey was the founder and CEO of Industry Dive, the B2B newsletter publisher. An economics graduate with an MBA, Griffey had spent nearly 10 years as a consultant before his start in…
4 April 2025
6 minute read
How will UK’s news leader change?
Less than a month after he claimed that 2024 had been "a good year", Jim Mullen, the six-year CEO of the UK's largest news group, was announced to be immediately stepping down "by mutual…
3 April 2025
3 minute read
How a side-hustle can change everything
You’d think that a Nasdaq-listed US media company valued at over $500mn might be familiar to media watchers. Yet Daily Journal Corp is one that I would guess many Flashes & Flames readers,…
3 April 2025
5 minute read
Time for Future’s big plan?
Jon Steinberg steps down from the board of UK-based magazines-to-digital Future Plc this weekend and Kevin Li Ying takes over as CEO on Monday (31 March). Steinberg's departure, after just two…
28 March 2025
6 minute read
Is this the future of trade shows?
Jonathan Weiner is the science graduate who turned down a lucrative first job at his university which – ahead of its time – was creating remote learning programs with videos of classes and…
28 March 2025
5 minute read
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