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‘AI, unmistakably, an existential threat’
The Belgium-based DPG Media, has almost stealthily become one of Europe’s largest media groups. Like Bauer, Burda, Daily Mail Group and Axel Springer, it is family-owned. In 2025, it had…
How Front Office Sports became prosumer – and profitable
Adam White is founder and CEO of the 12-year-old Front Office Sports (FOS), self-described as “the leading media news organization covering the business of sports.” It claims a…
PODCAST: How data drives Black Ballad
Frustrated that she couldn’t break into women’s magazines, Tobi Oredein decided to do her own thing. That was Black Ballad, now the leading lifestyle publication for and by Black women in…
Informa changes the game again
Eight years after Informa's audacious £4bn acquisition of UBM catapulted it into trade show leadership, they've done it again. This week, it announced an agreed £2.24bn ($2.95bn) bid for the…
What AI means for business value
AI is collapsing the cost of much of what information, media and events businesses sell. The premium has moved to what AI can’t reproduce – and to the businesses that can prove it. Daniel…
The Definitive AI Forum: 2026 Masterclasses announced
As part of The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information and Events, the upcoming AI-focused event with Flashes & Flames on Wednesday 18 November, MediaVoices will be running a series of…
How Australian ‘role model’ failed
Eight years ago, shareholders of Australia’s 177-year-old Fairfax Media approved its A$4bn merger with the Nine Entertainment Company (NEC). The all-share deal brought together the country's…
Forge: ‘The scale to move markets”
Apollo is one of the world’s five largest private equity firms. For a company that had not previously invested in B2B events, it has moved remarkably fast. On 14 July, it completed the…
The Week That Was – 2 October
FT record profit amid ‘B2B push’ For 2025, the Financial Times Group celebrated the 10th anniversary of its acquisition by Nikkei with revenue up by 5% to £566mn (35% in the UK), operating…
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