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BuzzFeed marries HuffPost
The US news and entertainment company BuzzFeed is to acquire HuffPost (formerly known as Huffington Post) from telco parent Verizon. The all-share deal brings together the two most famous…
20 November 2020
4 minute read
Trade shows look to 2022
Everything about forecasting trade show business over the next 1-2 years is problematic, of course. But the impending release of Covid-19 vaccines certainly encourages organisers to start…
20 November 2020
2 minute read
MediaFutures on M&A
In our continuing review of MediaFutures International 2020, we focus this week on M&A. In the US survey, 42% of companies expect to be involved in some kind of M&A activity over the…
20 November 2020
2 minute read
Simon & Schuster sale soon
The ViacomCBS sale of Simon & Schuster is nearing the end game with all bids apparently coming from existing major book publishers. Private equity interest has reportedly fallen away.…
20 November 2020
1 minute read
Sandow buys Metropolis mag
US architecture and design magazine Metropolis has been acquired by Sandow, the privately-owned New York-based media company. Terms not disclosed. Metropolis was launched…
20 November 2020
1 minute read
Cocoa Girl UK mag launch
When the pandemic hit the UK in March, Serlina Boyd (whose plans for a nursery business were lost in lockdown) went looking for a magazine that would captivate her six-year-old daughter, one…
20 November 2020
1 minute read
Valnet buys Collider
Valnet, the Canadian online media investor with brands including ScreenRant and GameRant, has acquired entertainment website Collider.com. Founded in 2005, Collider covers film TV and gaming…
20 November 2020
1 minute read
Is this the future of exhibitions?
In the week when a Covid-19 vaccine suddenly became visible, share prices everywhere rebounded. None more so than the exhibition companies whose business had come to a shuddering halt in…
13 November 2020
4 minute read
What can we expect in 2021?
In 2009, the UK consultant Jim Bilton started publishing his annual MediaFutures survey. It benchmarked the performance, promise and pitfalls of the country’s publishers. Eleven years…
13 November 2020
2 minute read
MBO for Quartz but…
Japanese news and information company Uzabase is selling its online business news website Quartz to the management under CEO Zach Seward, who says he will be seeking further funding for the…
13 November 2020
1 minute read
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