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The magic of club membership
As media businesses (finally) dare to contemplate a post-pandemic world, the big question is: what next for consumer events and physical meet-ups? Turn the clock back two years and events were…
Scary trade show re-starts?
As trade shows re-open after some 16 months of pandemic paralysis, the question remains whether (and when) the industry will return to its peaktime performance of 2019. Things may be much…
Will ATK cooking go global?
The pandemic has changed appetites for food as well as media. Being stuck at home, not commuting and feeling unsafe going to restaurants has encouraged consumers everywhere to spend more time…
UK news veteran fights for local media and ‘influence’
It is six months since the veteran UK newspaper executive David Montgomery acquired JPI Media, the former Johnston Press, for £10.2m. His listed company National World Plc bought some 130…
Who’s buying AgriBriefing?
Just two years after it tried and failed to complete an audacious three-way “merger” with Informa’s Agribusiness Intelligence and Kynetec agri research, the UK-based AgriBriefing may now…
How B2C brands can go B2B
In 2007, The Business of Fashion (BoF) launched into a fashion B2B world still largely dominated by trade journals Drapers (in the UK) and Women’s Wear Daily (in the US). Trend forecaster WGSN…
How trade shows must change
The exhibitions industry – which has spent two decades watching fellow media companies being pulled, pushed and pummelled by the internet – is now challenged and unsure about its…
The rising value of ‘trust’
There might never have been a better time to be a market researcher. Public opinion everywhere is volatile, most people in most countries do not readily trust the news they read and –…
Bustle shows magazines how
Let’s not pretend everything in the pure-play digital garden is rosy. But among the corpses, layoffs, closures and firesales, there is one digital media group that’s not just still standing,…
Will commodities group be sold?
The scale of would-be acquisitions across B2B information – and the rising multiples being paid for subscriptions businesses – suggest that this just might be the year when the…
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