According to rumors, Mfe has given Unicredit the mandate to lead a pool of banks for a 3,4 billion financing that will be used for a takeover bid on ProSieben aimed at delisting
Italiaonline records a 5,7% growth in revenues and a 26,9% growth in Ebitda in the first half of 2024. Excellent performances in the Web & Media Solutions and Publishing & Adv sectors, with a strategy oriented towards new M&A opportunities
The closure of the TV division is just the beginning of a much broader cost-cutting plan: the American entertainment giant plans to reduce staff by 15% by the end of 2024
The luxury giant is expanding its portfolio, which already includes publications such as Les Echos, Le Parisien and Investir. Paris Match of the Lagardère group, controlled by Vivendi, is in the sights
Two almost twin operations in two countries that are increasingly similar. Gianluigi Aponte in Italy and Rodolphe Saadé in France, aboard their enormous shipping companies, travel to conquer publishing through acquisitions
Digital entrepreneurs will have to clearly indicate the advertising nature of the contents with readily and immediately recognizable writing. A code of conduct will also be coming soon. And in case of sanctions the fines will be very high
It's time to take a blood test on Italian journalism. A survey commissioned by the State University of Milan reveals that 55% of those interviewed give a negative opinion of our country's journalism
Agcom's Communication Observatory has analyzed the various economic areas of interest which together represent a turnover of 52,1 billion euros in 2022. Paper publishing is moving further and further down, we are surfing more and more on online platforms. Here are all…
Agcom's proposal is to assimilate the activity of influencers to that of TV and video on demand broadcasters
The Online News Act passed by the Canadian Senate forces web giants to pay media outlets for news shared or reused on their platforms. Law in effect in six months. Meta doesn't fit and immediately blocks the news...
The Czech group rises to 15,04% in Prosiebensat the Bavarian media company controlled by MediaForEurope (MFE) of the Berlusconi family
The Czech billionaire aims to take control of the seventh national large-scale distribution group through a 1,1 billion capital increase - And he has snatched a purchase option from Vivendi for the second transalpine publishing house
According to the Mediobanca Research Area, global revenues driven by streaming will grow in 2022, while there is a decline in Italy. Rai has the lowest license fee in Europe
The maximum total value in the event of participation by all holders of the shares will be equal to 128,596 million euro. Dea Capital, over the years, has substantially changed its business model
With the current crisis, the habits of consumers and businesses will change. The most cyclical sectors will be the most affected, while the most innovative will prevail
In his new book "Indagine sul futuro", published by Laterza, the economist Salvatore Rossi, former General Manager of Bankitalia and now President of Tim talks with a series of experts and focuses on the possible trends of the years to come
The Czech billionaire, former lawyer, retail and energy operator – Owner of the EPH group, master of many media and a great football fan – That's who Daniel Kretinsky is
According to the Authority's annual report, broadband and ultra-broadband coverage increased in 2020 - Among the media, only streaming is growing: radio and newspapers are doing badly
Marriage between Warner Media and Discovery will create a telecommunications giant that will challenge Disney and Netflix in streaming - Discovery flies into the pre-market
Numbers are important but they must be used with care otherwise you risk giving misleading or even deceptive messages. The case of healthcare expenditure is emblematic. Here are some examples to avoid being fooled
In today's media, contents are less and less produced by a creative elite and more and more by spontaneous generation: they are the new authors, the media prosumers, both consumers and producers - In a forthcoming book…
The article "Is 'Interactive Storytelling' the Future of Media?", published in the futurist magazine "OneZero", launches an interesting debate - The case of the last season of Black Mirror, on Netflix, and of the cult video game Fortnite.
Through this operation Mediaset becomes the first shareholder of the German broadcaster - The price would be less than 350 million - CEO Pier Silvio Berlusconi: "Amicable acquisition which represents a long-term choice".
Agcom report published: the publishing crisis has burned 900 million in revenues (-17,7%) in five years. On the other hand, companies in the TV sector and network operators are growing thanks to revenues from paid services and advertising.
Mathias Dofner, the boss of Springer, and Jeff Bezos, the big boss of Amazon, look and are very different but they have visions on the future of the media and can understand each other, as happened in the acquisition of Business Insider - Here is an interview with Dofner…
It will be as it will be, but since Trump, the most politically incorrect US president of all time, has been in the White House, the "New York Times" has doubled its subscribers and the "Washinton Post" and CNN have returned to shine...
Streaming will increasingly be the winning model of digital content but it risks balkanisation because the division of labor between media groups, technological platforms and telephone groups has disappeared and it is now total war but, in the end, they will remain…
The "deal of the century" is official. Walt Disney bought 21st Century Fox from the Murdoch group. The operation will be completed after the spin-off of some assets. Disney CEO and chairman Bob Iger will stay on until 2021
This is what emerges from an elaboration by the Chamber of Commerce of Milan, Monza Brianza and Lodi on data from the business register in the second quarter of 2017 and Aida.
The corporate reorganization is linked to the acquisition of Time Warner which will be completed by the end of 2017.
According to Shane Smith, CEO of Vice media, 2017 will see a great consolidation among the media with deaths and injuries - The value of advertising on the web is preparing to overtake that of TV - Newspapers are again…
Netflix is becoming the Amazon of the media industry - The traditional groups still don't know how to deal with it: whether to fight it or join forces but in the meantime they fear it because they have understood that it will end up revolutionizing the sector - The ability to surprise that…
Book or ebook? Enough of this question. Book and ebook compete against all other types of media in the same environment: an internet-connected screen. Mario Mancini, co-founder of Thesis, explains in a new online essay published by goWare…
The shocking services of Vice Media, a Brooklyn-based publishing group also present in Milan and active on the web and traditional media, reveal a new and unexpected source of information revenue: native advertising, i.e. advertising incorporated into…
The offer presented in June by Twenty-First Century Fox valued the US company at $ 85 per share and would be paid in cash and shares - At the moment "there is no negotiation" - Time Warner stock flies to Wall…
With this move At&T gains about 20 million DirectTv subscribers in one fell swoop - The deal will have to be approved by federal regulators and to facilitate the approval process At&t has announced that it should sell its…
It's the deal of the century in the media world: Comcast announces the purchase of Time Warner, a giant is born that will control a third of the pay TV and broadband services market in the USA - The M&A season is back…
Fiat conquers America but the news does not shake the world press too much: overseas, perhaps displaced by Marchionne's coup, the reactions are on average tepid - The only one to celebrate the Italian-Canadian CEO is the Financial Times - Little attention Also…
The Media and Entertainment market is growing in Italy, which in 2017 will be worth 56 billion euros (+3,5%) - According to Pwc, the trend in advertising is also changing (albeit slightly) - Internet, video games and gaming (including gambling) are confirmed…
The American group that owns CNN reports an 87% jump in second-quarter net profits. The TV and film business is excellent, while the publishing segment is slowing down. The brilliant results, exceeding the expectations of analysts, bring the estimate of…
From June, thanks to the agreement between SingRing and Alitalia, for the first time the official video clips of the most viewed Italian and foreign artists on the web will be broadcast on the screens of the entire Alitalia fleet.
The UN and Unesco have announced World Radio Day, the world day of celebration of a medium which, given up for doomed a few decades ago, has been able to effectively reinvent itself, maintaining its ability to connect people and ideas from all…
The US weekly has announced that after 80 years of activity in the print media, at the end of this year, it will become online only - The decision is due to the tightening of the media business and "the prohibitive costs of the print media and…
The transalpine financier's group now has more than 5% of the media, cinema and internet company listed on the New York Stock Exchange - Bolloré now surpasses the US fund Blackrock (4,62%) and Société Generale (4,55%) .
The Censis/UCSI report on communication describes Italians as a people of TV viewers and web surfers - 62% of the population uses the internet, 41,3% have a profile on Facebook - The crisis of printed paper continues, only a…
The event dedicated to digital media, creativity and technological startups arrives in Italy in the Piedmontese capital, in web-conference with nine other cities around the world, and will end on Friday 28 - The meetings, over 95 (the complete calendar on the website…
JOURNALISM BETWEEN PAPER AND WEB - The New York Times, the Associated Press and Dow Jones have been looking for a CEO for some time but are struggling to find one: why? - Because no one knows which business model is suitable for today and capable…
The publishing group clearly exceeds the red recorded in the same period of 2010 - Consolidated net revenues are also down due to the decline in circulation revenues from "Newspapers Spain" and the "partworks" sector - On the stock exchange, the stock at 1,02…
The Australian tycoon's empire has been overwhelmed by a wave of indignation over privacy violations carried out by the tabloid News of the World - The markets fear that the story could affect the tycoon's chances of buying the entire stake…
