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Is the next trade show ‘big bang’ on the way?
Scarcely four years after the end of the pandemic, this has been the year of the trade show Big Bang. In a four-week burst, private equity firms splashed almost $6bn on Emerald and Questex, of…
Are you still a publisher if you don’t publish?
Adriana Whiteley, Managing Director of FT Strategies, the consulting arm of the Financial Times, draws on the firm’s “Resilient Content Businesses in the Age of AI” series.…
The Nerve news ‘close to breakeven’ in Year One
UK newsletter-first news start-up The Nerve is preparing to celebrate a year since launch with special events, and even a print magazine. Co-founder Sarah Donaldson shares why they’ve seen…
The Week That Was – 4 Sept
All about priceGoogle will not be forced to sell-off its ad exchange but must make its adtech tools work with rival exchanges, a US federal judge has ruled. The decision comes after Google was…
Is this an unlikely B2B success?
Exactly two years ago, Substack newsletter publisher Simon Owens lauded Andrew Curtin, whose then two-year-old startup Construction Wave had just organized its first conference. It was, the…
DealMakers: coming out of a summer break
Most of the event buyers took a Summer holiday from M&A, so we have only three transactions to report this month. A rare break in the feeding frenzy which seems sure to resume shortly. Yet…
The last indie: Legal 500 heads for exit
There is a moment in every consolidation when the map redraws itself so fast that the survivors barely notice they have become targets. The global legal-information market – the rankings,…
Why Strong Words mag failed
Strong Words, the independent book review magazine launched by former FHM, Maxim and Rolling Stone editor Ed Needham, closed last month after 65 issues. It’s eight years since the Brit…
‘How media must beware of AI monsters’
Lucky Gunasekara is CEO and co-founder of Miso, an AI media lab which partners with more than 50 publishers globally to explore how the shift toward “liquid media” — adaptive, modular, and…
Is this how DMGT grows again?
This was going to be a big year for the £1bn-revenue DMGT – and not just because it's the Daily Mail publisher's 130th anniversary. In 2022, owner Jonathan (Lord) Rothermere had realized a…
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