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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…
Forge: ‘The scale to move markets”
Apollo is one of the world’s five largest private equity firms. For a company that had not previously invested in B2B events, it has moved remarkably fast. On 14 July, it completed the…
8 reasons to be scared for the New York Times
Nobody needs reminding of the transformational success of the New York Times. Its digital subscriptions in the US and internationally have boomed during seemingly unpromising times. Its become…
How Mark Allen is growing again
The UK’s Mark Allen Group (MAG) is expecting to bounce back from a slowdown in B2B profits, to achieve its best result for four years in the 12 months ending March 31, 2027. The results are…
How RX earns its place in RELX
Rupert Murdoch created the first multinational, multimedia business, and RX (formerly Reed Exhibitions) created the first international trade show company. Both date back to 1969, when Murdoch…
How to make content ‘work’ post-Google
A two-year-old London-based startup is fundraising (perhaps for a few hundred thousand pounds) for the expansion (including in the US) of an easy-to-use analytics platform built by former…
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…
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…
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,…
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