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The patient road to Politico of sports
In an era of under-reliable information sources, much of the future success of media may depend on specialist providers. The growing disenchantment with polarised news coverage and flakey…
The changing face of gaming events
Gaming is the most lucrative entertainment medium in the world, valued at over $330bn in 2025, with forecasts it will exceed $600bn by 2030 within just four years. There are 3.6bn gamers…
Monetising B2B to focus on events+media
Live in-person events – all the way from trade shows and confexes through conferences to meetups, roundtables and awards ceremonies – are increasingly the focus of B2B companies.…
How Endeavor B2B is learning the hard way
In 2022, we reported that the four-year-old, Nashville-based Endeavor Business Media (EBM) was flying high in the US city best known for its country music and as a world leader in the…
DealMakers: biggest events boom since 2019
Welcome to the first DealMakers in Flashes & Flames of 2026. With the exception of the well-telegraphed acquisitions by the UK’s increasingly global Nineteen Group, I had thought –…
Have you booked Monetising B2B yet?
After last year’s sellout debut of our Monetising B2B Information & Events, companies and individuals are booking quickly for this year’s event which takes place in London on…
Using AI for efficiency AND integrity
At the heart of publishing’s AI conundrum lies the tension between maintaining public trust and the opportunity to exploit operational efficiencies crucial to commercial sustainability. At our…
Hoffmann rescues US news group
We farewell 2025 as the year when Hearst, the US veteran news publisher, paid a cool $88mn (a share price premium of some 270%) for the listed Dallas Morning News group, despite Hearst's…
The Year in Media 2025: 240 pages of holiday reading from Flashes & Flames in an eventful year
It's that time again. For your holiday reading (or re-reading), here's our eBook of the 43 best-read deepdives from Flashes & Flames in 2025. We immodestly describe the collection as "The…
Boats Group 2x value in 4 years
The US-based Boats Group (described as the global marine industry’s largest search engine) was this month acquired by private equity firm General Atlantic and the Canada Pension Fund…
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