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CloserStill on the runway
It seems impossible to deny that the pandemic has had a lasting impact on the social and economic lives of millions of people. Two years of Covid, political panic, economic and employment…
Ascential faces the questions
UK-based B2B information, analytics and events company Ascential Plc today (22 Sept) reported first-half revenues of £307.4mn (H1 2022: £260.7mn) and EBITDA of £78.6mn (£67.2mn). 26%…
How I do it: Tim O’Reilly, ‘Oracle of Silicon Valley’
Tim O’Reilly is the Irish-American author, publisher, and tech visionary. He is founder and owner of O’Reilly Media. It’s the media, information, education and advisory company (now…
How Haymarket surprised us again
It’s less than a decade since the family-owned Haymarket Media Group sold-off more than £170mn of investment property and publishing business as the self-confident company put a brave…
Is TikTok the future of news?
Survey data is one of the few ways we have of getting an overview of how audiences interact with media products, and of how that interaction is changing over time. There aren’t, however,…
How I do it: Kerry Parker, SelectScience
Kerry Parker is CEO of SelectScience, the UK-based company with a claimed worldwide audience of 3mn scientists who share product reviews and resources with their peers. The secret sauce is the…
How B2B leaps the value chain
What had started as an incidental by-product of the Covid pandemic is fundamentally changing people’s lives. What’s striking, of course, about the whole idea of working from home…
Ascential holds its breath
The UK listed Ascential information and events group continues to pursus its planned strategy of selling its WGSN forecasting platform, listing the digital commerce division in the US, and…
How I do it: Michael Kassan, MediaLink
Michael Kassan is founder and CEO of the 20-year-old, US-based MediaLink media-marketing advisory firm. In 2017, the archetypal networker and marketing guru – who has worked with many of…
How UK finance daily went bust
It is now known that City AM, the 18-year-old London-based, free financial daily, went into liquidation in July this year with net liabilities of £2.5mn and a 2022 pre-tax loss of £584k. The…
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