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DealMakers: Record year continues…
With 12 deals announced this last month, the total number of transactions for the year now stands at 87, equalling the highest number of transactions reported for the whole of 2018 when the…
$3bn Forge buys AI Infra Summit
Forge, the Apollo pe-owned US aggregation of Emerald, Questex and Becker's, this week acquired UK-based conference group Kisaco Research for an estimated enterprise value of some £80-85mn. We…
Trade show zero to £40mn hero
M&A success is all about timing. Of course. Take this month’s sale of the £15mn-revenue, UK trade show company ROAR B2B. In January, just weeks before the start of the trade show ‘big…
One Year On: what we’ve learned about AI and what comes next
A year ago, at our first Definitive AI Forum, I argued that AI turbulence could be a springboard for publishers. Twelve months on – and just ahead of this year's AI Forum on 18 November – it…
Her Campus ready to lead young women’s media
Her Campus Media (HCM), the 17-year-old online magazine and media ecosystem for female college students, primarily in the US but increasingly also in Canada and the UK, is acquiring Rebel…
‘AI, unmistakably, an existential threat’
The Belgium-based DPG Media, has almost stealthily become one of Europe's largest media groups. Like Bauer, Burda, Daily Mail Group and Axel Springer, it is family-owned. In 2025, it had €2bn+…
How Front Office Sports became prosumer – and profitable
Adam White is founder and CEO of the 12-year-old Front Office Sports (FOS), self-described as "the leading media news organization covering the business of sports." It claims a monthly…
Informa changes the game again
Eight years after Informa's audacious £4bn acquisition of UBM catapulted it into trade show leadership, they've done it again. This week, it announced an agreed £2.24bn ($2.95bn) bid for the…
What AI means for business value
AI is collapsing the cost of much of what information, media and events businesses sell. The premium has moved to what AI can’t reproduce – and to the businesses that can prove it. Daniel…
How Australian ‘role model’ failed
Eight years ago, shareholders of Australia’s 177-year-old Fairfax Media approved its A$4bn merger with the Nine Entertainment Company (NEC). The all-share deal brought together the country's…
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