Ascential Plc
Can Ascential make it?
Listed companies are tricky. Investors can be so fickle and quick to pick holes in well-worked strategies they…
Ascential quits Jumpshot…
Just six months after the UK-based B2B media group Ascentual paid $60.8m for a 35% share in Jumpshot…
Is Cannes Lions a clue to the future of exhibitions?
Everybody loves live events. Newspapers and magazines look for rare rays of sunshine in performances and so-called experiential…
Is it the end for Centaur Media?
Everybody in UK media likes Centaur: employees, journalists and even long-suffering investors who have stuck with its under-performing…
Ascential digs deep in e-commerce
The UK-based £1.5bn B2B information and events group Ascential Plc has acquired the four-year-old US-based Flywheel Digital, a provider…
How Ascential is changing shape of B2B media
Eighteen months ago, Michael Kassan, the owner of US advertising consultancy MediaLink, was interviewing WPP’s Martin Sorrell at…