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Is this the future of Centaur Media?
In 2004, an IPO valued B2B publisher Centaur Media at £148mn. Twenty years later – even after bullish news of a likely private equity bid – it has a market cap of £70mn. What's went wrong…
19 April 2024
7 minute read
The Daily Beast tries again
Digital news site The Daily Beast is named after the fictional name Evelyn Waugh gave his protagonist's employer in the novel Scoop, which was in turn based on his own experiences covering the…
19 April 2024
7 minute read
How I do it: Wolfgang Marzin, Messe Frankfurt
Wolfgang Marzin is president and CEO of Messe Frankfurt, one of the world’s leading trade fair, congress and event organisers with their own exhibition grounds. It employs 2,300 people at 28…
18 April 2024
5 minute read
Why B2B must focus on journalists and data
It's exactly 25 years since a former British army officer and a journalist launched MergerMarket, an M&A information service that was itself sold to the Financial Times for £101mn in 2006…
12 April 2024
11 minute read
How I do it: Jed White, Andi AI search
Former tech journalist Jed (Jeremy) White is co-founder of Andi, self-described as "the next generation of search using the power of AI". Others have called it a mashup between Google and…
12 April 2024
14 minute read
What will Cannes Lions become?
Everybody is watching Ascential. The UK listed B2B company (previously known as EMAP and Top Right Group) has started out on its new adventure. It's 16 years since the former EMAP Plc rewarded…
5 April 2024
7 minute read
How I do it: Jerry Perkins, Wasted Talent
Jerry Perkins is CEO and co-founder of Wasted Talent, a UK music media publisher which was originally launched as Development Hell in 2003. He had previously been an advertising manager and…
4 April 2024
5 minute read
Atlantic scores big – by changing little
For an example of how – when it comes to media business models – what’s old is new again, you could do worse than look at The Atlantic, in the US. Last week, the 166-year-old magazine…
4 April 2024
4 minute read
Why Indy is ‘buying’ BuzzFeed UK
Independent Digital News & Media, the London-based publisher of the all-digital Independent is taking over the UK operations of BuzzFeed. Under the deal, described as a “long term…
29 March 2024
4 minute read
How UK news agency was transformed
To see one of the most successful transformations of a UK news business, the former occupants of ‘Fleet Street’ need look no further than the company many of them own. PA Media Group (formerly…
29 March 2024
4 minute read
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