The USA and China were the top publishing markets measured by revenue for the third consecutive year. These two publishing powers are followed by the three major European economies Germany, the UK and France
Sir Martin Sorrell’s advertising group, WPP, has called an end to the Brexit shock that has hammered the ad market since the EU referendum vote in June and upgraded its forecast for the industry
It’s a solid business model, and combined with its unique position in Europe makes its acquisition by Nikkei in July of last year easy to understand. There isn’t another publication quite like the Financial Times, and its 805,000 paying subscribers are testament to that. Speaking at Web Summit earlier this week, its chief product and information officer Cait O’Riordan explained how the publication’s focus on accurate journalism encourages people to move along the funnel from free user to paid subscriber
The outlook for print advertising has gone from bad to worse. Print newspaper ad spending in the UK, for instance, is set to fall by £135m to £866m this year, even steeper than the £112m drop in 2015, says Enders Analysis. “These are big numbers,” says Douglas McCabe, an analyst at Enders. “This is not advertising that is going to come back.”
Overall, companies from Europe dominate the rankings of exhibition firms with revenues over EUR 100 million. Just five of 31 companies have their headquarters outside of Europe: Emerald Expositions (USA) in 12th place, the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 15th, Coex (Korea) in 16th, Tokyo Big Sight in 20th and SNIEC Shanghai in 28th
UK adspend figures for 2016 have been revised up to 5.2% after a higher-than-expected growth for the first half of the year, despite concerns from business over Brexit
Analysts had earlier predicted a bumper 2016 but jittery companies have cut more than £400m from marketing budgets
Time Inc is closing the UK print edition of its InStyle magazine and taking the brand digital-only
The likes of UBM and Relx are thriving after swapping print for events and digital services
Press Release: LONDON, 30 September 2016 – Shard Media Group is pleased to announce that they have reached an agreement for the establishment of a joint venture with New York and London based The M&A Advisor to expand the company’s event, publishing and media services into the UK and Europe through its Shard Financial Media brand
Marketplace lets Facebook users list items for sale, and could be an attempt to upend the crowded world of peer-to-peer selling
Clarion Events, owners of both Multimodal UK, and the Supply Chain and Logistics Summits, to launch Americas exhibition and seminars and colocate with The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)’s Toronto Air Cargo Forum (ACF) in 2018 London, UK, and Miami, USA,
Facebook’s digital adspend growth is forecast to be even higher than previously thought this year, growing by nearly a third, in eMarketer’s latest digital adspend report for the UK
Mathias Döpfner says Google and Facebook must change their attitude for publishers to survive
Following on from two phenomenally successful years in London, and due to increasing demand from early years and childcare professionals from across the UK, the Nursery World Show exhibition series is expanding in 2017 with the launch of a new event: Nursery World North.
“The soul and spirit of the company Axel Springer is journalism. We serve our readers with independent and critical information and advice as well as good entertainment. Through our media offerings we are making a contribution to the strengthening of freedom and democracy. “
Times writer noted in an article on Saturday, “the news on Facebook is what Facebook says it is.”
The owner of The Daily Telegraph’s view of the trading environment in its newly published annual accounts was more bearish than a year ago. TMG described how print publishers now have a “less certain” role because of “competition from the proliferation of free digital content and the increasing role of large-scale digital platforms in distributing and aggregating content”, particularly on mobile
In the latest progress-with-caveats, Apple is allowing publishers to sell digital subscriptions from inside the Apple News app, giving them access to a much larger potential subscriber base. But that’s hedged around, as always, by constraints intended to maintain consumer privacy — and Apple’s control over access to them
Time Inc UK yesterday announced the launch of Cake International, the official magazine of the leading cake show
