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DealMakers: keeping up the pace on events M&A
The M&A momentum in December that pushed 2025 into the busiest year for transactions since 2019 has continued in January with nine reported transactions. The Easyfairs’ acquisition of…
Hoffmann rescues US news group
2 Jan 2026: We farewell 2025 as the year when Hearst, the US veteran news publisher, paid a cool $88mn (a share price premium of some 270%) for the listed Dallas Morning News group, despite…
PRAs prepare for some pricey deals…
The volatile, US-led world of tariffs and trade restrictions has reinforced the view that Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs) are among the most valuable business information companies. These…
Shock! Atlas Obscura makes debut profit
US travel media company Atlas Obscura is celebrating its first annual profit in 2025, after a mere 17 years and $40mn of funding. It had been launched in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and…
What Telegraph means to Daily Mail
The UK’s privately-owned Daily Mail Group this week began what is expected to be a nine-week legal defence against alleged phone hacking and “blagging” personal information, brought by a…
When a B2B market isn’t one…
January is an anniversary month for Brit business publisher Andy Salter. It was this month in 2011 when the former truck driver (yes) acquired his favourite road transport magazines in an MBO…
The patient road to Politico of sports
In an era of under-reliable information sources, much of the future success of media may depend on specialist providers. The growing disenchantment with polarised news coverage and flakey…
The changing face of gaming events
Gaming is the most lucrative entertainment medium in the world, valued at over $330bn in 2025, with forecasts it will exceed $600bn by 2030 within just four years. There are 3.6bn gamers…
How Endeavor B2B is learning the hard way
In 2022, we reported that the four-year-old, Nashville-based Endeavor Business Media (EBM) was flying high in the US city best known for its country music and as a world leader in the…
The Year in Media 2025: 240 pages of holiday reading from Flashes & Flames in an eventful year
It's that time again. For your holiday reading (or re-reading), here's our eBook of the 43 best-read deepdives from Flashes & Flames in 2025. We immodestly describe the collection as "The…
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