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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…
Hoffmann rescues US news group
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 Hearst's…
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…
Boats Group 2x value in 4 years
The US-based Boats Group (described as the global marine industry’s largest search engine) was this month acquired by private equity firm General Atlantic and the Canada Pension Fund…
What next for Questex?
It’s eight months since President Trump declared his Liberation Day wave of tariffs or sanctions on many US trading partners including China, Canada and the EU. The potential disruption had a…
How AI energizes Independent
Christian Broughton is CEO (and a former editor-in-chief) of The Independent, in London. The former UK broadsheet newspaper was launched in 1986 and, since 2015, has been a…
100 unusual years of The New Yorker
The documentary maker has not been born who is able to resist the temptation to begin a behind-the-scenes look at a magazine without a shot of hundreds of copies of the latest issue emerging…
Future and the tale of two media groups
Stock markets are not always easy to understand. That’s what Kevin Li Ying, CEO of Future Plc, might feel as he reflects on the reception of his company’s 2025 results for the 12 months ended…
Transformed Nineteen readies 2027 sale
Nineteen Group, the private equity-owned UK-based trade show group which made its first recent profit only in 2023, is expected to increase its revenue and EBITDA by almost 50% this year. Our…
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