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How Mumsnet at 25 is really just beginning
In two weeks, it will be the 25th anniversary of the launch of parenting site Mumsnet, in the early days of the millennial web boom. The storied site that aims to “make parents’…
How I do it: Leon Saunders Calvert, The Economist
Leon Saunders Calvert is president and managing director of Economist Intelligence, the business information arm of The Economist Group which comprises: Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU,…
How chocolate energises Mr Beast…
Last week, Flashes & Flames looked at MeidasTouch, an activist, anti-Trump media business that has built an impressive audience from across a range of platforms, and is likely making…
JCL will be ‘powerhouse global M&A platform’
Investment bankers, who make their profits by quietly lubricating the wheels of M&A, are not supposed to make the news. But this week’s announced merger of the 37-year-old JEGI…
What’s happened to New Scientist?
Four years ago this month, the UK’s Daily Mail Group (DMGT) was feeling bullish. While executives quietly worked on a mid-pandemic plan of asset sales that would culminate in the company’s…
Is ‘Trending Now’ the future of B2B news?
Sixty years ago, the Moog Synthesiser scared to death musicians who thought it would replace them. Now, the once revolutionary system is an integral part of music production. Concerns about…
Mark Allen gets Bonhill indigestion
The Mark Allen Group (MAG), which has been one of the UK’s fastest growing B2B companies for the past decade, has reported rising revenue but falling profit for the second consecutive…
Is MeidasTouch becoming golden?
The media’s broad adherence to a concept of objectivity has often proved a hindrance in an online, algorithmic world that rewards emotion. For more overtly activist media, it has opened up…
When is a subscriber not a subscriber?
UK publishers this month seized on the seemingly downbeat circulation figures for 2024 to claim that the transition from print to digital was in full swing with digital subscriptions…
‘How trade shows are changing’
Regent Exhibitions, the family-owned operator of the global meetings industry IMEX events in Frankfurt and Las Vegas, will this year achieve its best profit for years on revenue matching its…
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