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RB Media buys Booka
US audiobook company RBMedia has bought Booka, the Spanish language audiobooks publisher.The Booka audio backlist has leading authors and narrators and will have interest to the fast growing…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
MBO at Active Interest Media
Andrew Clurman, CEO of Boulder, Colorado-based Active Interest Media (AIM), has bought the company, along with other investors, PE company Wind Point Partners. AIM is being acquired by the…
18 February 2021
1 minute read
Is this how local papers survive?
Traditional media is quick to allocate the blame for its demise. Dying magazines and newspapers believe that digital monsters have stolen their readers, advertisers and the right to exist. But…
12 February 2021
6 minute read
How magazines are changing
Some magazines continue to be strongly profitable and growing. Of course. You can find good examples of against-the-trend paid circulations and even advertising revenue. But the success of…
12 February 2021
6 minute read
No joy for ‘Netflix of sport’
DAZN wanted to become the ‘Netflix for sports’. But, according to The Information, the company (owned by Len Blavatnik and formerly branded the Perform Group) has been forced to…
11 February 2021
2 minute read
Haymarket buys India e-com
UK based, family-owned Haymarket Media Group has acquired a stake in India based e-commerce and content management company TMotions Global. The companies have worked together on the digital…
11 February 2021
1 minute read
WordPress buys analytics
Automattic, owner of WordPress, SimpleNote and Tumblr, is acquiring content analytics company Parse.ly through its WordPress subsidiary. Parse.ly serves digital publishers and corporate…
11 February 2021
1 minute read
IXL buys Rosetta Stone
Texas-based IXL Learning is to buy Rosetta Stone, the language learning company, from the Cambium Learning Group which had bought both Lexia Learning and Rosetta Stone late in 2020. Rosetta…
11 February 2021
1 minute read
How Covid can make or break trade shows
All over the world, people are debating whether they want to resume regular commuting to offices and return to their pre-pandemic working lives. Or not. There are many reasons why employers…
5 February 2021
6 minute read
DriveTribe: an over-priced model
Two news startups tell the story about fundraising for media. First is BuzzFeed which raised $450m from a succession of funders including NBCUniversal. It was innovative and quickly became one…
5 February 2021
6 minute read
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