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Monetising media in the era of AI
Remember Google Books? The early 2000s project that aimed to digitise all the world’s books and create a vast online library? It was an ambitious initiative that excited many but also…
Easyfairs is 63% up on 2019
Easyfairs reported revenue growth of 20% in its last year before acquisition by private equity. The €229 revenue for the year ending 30 June 2024 was 37% up on pre-pandemic 2019. EBITDA, at…
London tries local TV – again
The most surprising thing for many in the UK about the sale of London Live, the local TV channel launched by Evening Standard owner Evgeny Lebedev a decade ago, will have been that it was…
Will 2025 be the M&A rebound?
In the US, investment bankers are predicting a big year in M&A. Stockmarkets are near all-time highs with inflation and interest rates (more or less) stabilised. It all seems to point to a…
Trousdale quietly makes it work
Patrick Trousdale, the founder of The Daily Upside, really is a different kind of media entrepreneur. For one, he started out in media by seeking a partner which – after a cold email…
Will Montgomery buy the Telegraph?
David Montgomery, the veteran UK newspaper executive who is losing control of his listed local news group National World Plc to its largest shareholder, may be set to acquire Telegraph Media…
How FHM magazine got away with it
They say ‘A Golden Age’ is a time when things work in such a way as to make you believe they will work that way forever. It was like that with the British magazine FHM. Beforehand,…
How can media win with AI?
If 2024 wasn’t quite the year of the AI revolution for media, it was certainly the year of talking about the AI revolution. But amid all the grand talk about how utterly AI will change…
Mark Allen saves Estates Gazette
The £70mn-revenue Mark Allen Group (MAG), of the UK, is set to acquire the B2B magazine long known as Estates Gazette. The potential deal comes just three weeks after RELX announced the…
What next for Condé Nast?
This has been a big year for the Newhouse family whose US-based Advance group reportedly made a cool $2bn from the IPO of their 30% owned Reddit. They own 8% of the $40bn-revenue Warner…
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