Telegraph Events has sold the London Bike and Triathlon Show to Frazer Clifford’s Newtimber Media. No terms were revealed. Clifford will be a familiar face to many visitors to the exhibition having worked as the sales director on the event for the past nine years. He told CI.N that long-term colleague Matt Letch will also join Newtimber Media in an enhanced business development role.
Hearst UK has agreed a deal with Telegraph Events to acquire fitness and wellbeing festival for women Be:FIT; luxury watch fair Salon QP; and luxury watch magazine QP. The deal is part of Hearst UK’s strategic commitment to grow and diversify revenues
Gojimo, an app that helps U.K. high school students prepare for exams, has been acquired by Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph newspapers. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but from what I gather the Gojimo team are staying on and the company will still be run as a separate entity.
The Daily Telegraph is a rare beast: a British newspaper that makes healthy profits. All around it, the news industry is being upended by plunging revenues from print advertising and the migration of digital advertising to Facebook and Google. But in 2015, the Telegraph Media Group made a £48m pre-tax profit on a turnover of £320m, a slight improvement on the £46m it made in 2014. It is still Britain’s biggest-selling quality daily paper, though its print circulation has fallen from its peak of more than 1m papers a day in the early 2000s to 457,331 in February, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Publishers behind paywalls are stuck with a ‘scaleless’ strategy, believes the Telegraph, as it looks to balance its own paywall with an open model that takes cues from Apple News
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
Evgeny Lebedev, the Russian oligarch’s son who owns the Evening Standard and the Independent website, made an offer to buy the Daily Telegraph from the Barclay brothers earlier this year
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) made an operating profit of £51m last year, according to unaudited accounts leaked to the Guardian. That was £4m down on the previous year
Barclay brothers believed to be testing potential City interest in newspaper group
Telegraph Media Group, the publisher of The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk, has reported an operating profit before exceptional items of £54.9m for 2014
Programmatic has often been characterised as a “race to the bottom” where brands can pick up bargains as eyeballs become available in real-time. In a world far removed from the premium assurances of direct buys, programmatic can mechanise the process, but as it does so, CPMs appear to be going only in one direction
The Middle East Congress will take place 25-26 February 2015 at the Jumeirah Carlton Towers, London, and will be the first planned event for Telegraph Events’ new conference and exhibition arm
The newly branded Telegraph Events is planning to announce two more exhibitions running in 2015-6 by the turn of the year
The editor-in-chief of the Telegraph Media Group says the newspaper has seen a large increase in traffic as a result of two strategies: focusing on Facebook more than Twitter, and devoting its resources to fewer stories
Telegraph Media Group has reported largely flat revenues and profit for the 52 weeks to 29 December 2013, as falls in print ads were offset by savings in production and rising digital revenues
At Shift 2014, Newsworks’ second annual conference all eyes were on new Telegraph boss, Jason Seiken. What surprises would he spring and what clues would he give as to the Telegraph’s digital future?
TMG made £60m profit last year, a new record, after £58.4m in 2012 and £55.7m in 2011
The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has purchased the watch-focused consumer show SalonQP and QP Magazine. The move follows the acquisition of VOS Media earlier in 2013 and the recent launch of a new luxury channel for the Telegraph website
Telegraph Media Group has today announced the acquisition of a majority equity interest in VOS Media, with MD Damian Norman retaining a minority equity stake
