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UK publishers this month seized on the seemingly downbeat circulation figures for 2024 to claim that the transition from print to digital was in full swing with digital subscriptions…
‘How trade shows are changing’
Regent Exhibitions, the family-owned operator of the global meetings industry IMEX events in Frankfurt and Las Vegas, will this year achieve its best profit for years on revenue matching its…
Can Gannett become awesome after all?
In summer 2015, senior executives at US newspaper group Gannett released what we can best describe as a candidate for the most ill-judged corporate video of all time. It featured the senior…
AI Wrappers: the ‘simple’ way for publishers
Want to fast-forward your business into the future? Ideally you need a racy DeLorean car. But tinkering with flux capacitors and plutonium can get messy. AI Wrappers are like hiring Doc Brown…
How sport media’s best-kept secret is chasing £100mn
Vic Daniels is a Brit banker-turned-headhunter who stumbled into media via content-rich, high-speed sites for jobs seekers in financial services. Along the way, he has become an expert in…
Montgomery at 130 gets ready to grow again
It's 130 years since Greville Montgomery launched the Building Trades Exhibition in Westminster, in order to help the struggling traders whose Institute of Clayworkers he had founded in 1895…
A coup for Aussie B2B group
Intermedia Group, the 40-year-old Australia B2B media company, last month acquired the marketing services brands Mumbrella and Unmade for a price of about A$1mn. But behind the simple…
How to achieve B2B transformation…
Our ‘Monetising B2B’ conference in London on 20 May is focused on transformation and change in business media, information and events for companies large and small, corporate…
Aussie ‘Broadsheet’ to launch in London
Three years after the 57-year-old Time Our magazine stopped printing its original London edition, the Australian publisher whom it had inspired to launch a digital-print magazine in Melbourne…
UK travel B2B bounces back
Everywhere you look are reminders that small scale B2B publishing can survive and thrive, even in print. It also seems clear that many of those that do not survive will have been victims of…
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