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The 7 lives of Incisive Media
It is 20 years since Tim Weller floated Incisive Media on the London stock exchange. The publisher of Investment Week, Post, and Bloomberg Money was valued at £75m six years after launching…
The big Meredith surprise?
Three years ago this month, Meredith Corp was euphoric. The 119-year-old, Des Moines, Iowa-based media group had acquired the world’s best known magazine publisher Time Inc for $2.8bn…
Is this the future for Reach?
The Daily Mirror, the best-known brand of UK news group Reach Plc, is itself never far from the headlines. The 118-year-old tabloid dominated the country’s newsstands long before the…
Is this how local papers survive?
Traditional media is quick to allocate the blame for its demise. Dying magazines and newspapers believe that digital monsters have stolen their readers, advertisers and the right to exist. But…
How magazines really are changing
Some magazines continue to be strongly profitable and growing. Of course. You can find good examples of against-the-trend paid circulations and even advertising revenue. But the success of…
How Covid can make or break trade shows
All over the world, people are debating whether they want to resume regular commuting to offices and return to their pre-pandemic working lives. Or not. There are many reasons why employers…
DriveTribe: an over-priced model
Two news startups tell the story about fundraising for media. First is BuzzFeed which raised $450m from a succession of funders including NBCUniversal. It was innovative and quickly became one…
Why Centaur +Wilmington is inevitable
Centaur Media, the UK owner of eConsultancy, Influencer Intelligence, The Lawyer, and Marketing Week, has had many more disappointments than thrills in the 17 years since it IPOd at a value of…
How Future made it all work
This time last year, Future Plc was negotiating to get its acquisition of TI Media approved by the UK Competition & Markets Authority. It was a momentous time as the company prepared to…
How can ‘The Sun’ survive?
One day, the obituaries may find it easy to list Rupert Murdoch’s achievements as the first global media entrepreneur: the pioneering Sky TV, Star TV and Fox News, and the revival of 20th…
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