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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,…
Why Strong Words mag failed
Strong Words, the independent book review magazine launched by former FHM, Maxim and Rolling Stone editor Ed Needham, closed last month after 65 issues. It’s eight years since the Brit…
Is this how DMGT grows again?
This was going to be a big year for the £1bn-revenue DMGT – and not just because it's the Daily Mail publisher's 130th anniversary. In 2022, owner Jonathan (Lord) Rothermere had realized a…
The quiet success of hyperlocal
Hyperlocal news is not the only media genre whose declining fortunes, arguably, have more to do with broken business models than with a real change in audience appetites. After decades during…
Is this the answer for the UK’s largest news group?
Reach Plc is the UK's largest commercial news group. The listed company publishes the national brands, Daily Mirror, Daily Star, Daily Express, and Scottish Daily Record, and some 24 regional…
How Haymarket is stretching again at 70
Early next year, the UK-based, family-owned Haymarket Group will celebrate its 70th anniversary and also the 94th birthday of founder, Michael (Lord) Heseltine. The former UK deputy prime…
Is Puck the future of (more) newsletters?
In an age in which journalism’s traditional models have been stretched to breaking point, those in the industry are always looking for beacons of hope. Puck is surely one. Founded in 2021,…
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