Collingwood Advisory, leading specialist scaleup and corporate finance advisers to the media industry, has opened up its successful Crescent programme for new members joining in Summer 2022.

Future Plc has continued its push into video with the acquisition of WhatCulture, the digital-only brand focused on the gaming and entertainment market.

Readly has teamed up with Three to offer Three customers unlimited digital magazine and newspaper reading.

The updated Online Safety Bill was published this Friday. Here our Public Affairs Executive unpacks what this actually means for publishers.

BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine is celebrating a huge milestone this week as its podcast has been downloaded more than more than 1 million times in just over a year from launch.

She the women’s magazine from 11 April, succeeding Jo Elvin.

Exact Editions is assembling and providing access to a digital collection of non-fiction books related to the history and culture of Ukraine in support of the Ukrainian people during these difficult times.

The partnership will see Acast work to proactively increase positive portrayals of women, girls and marginalised groups in podcast advertising

The Government have launched an Online Advertising Programme (OAP) consultation which will review the regulatory framework of the paid-for online advertising sector in an effort to ‘tackle the evident lack of transparency and accountability across the whole supply chain’.

Citipost Mail’s game-changing response to the resurgence of print media

Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nadine Dorries has ‘every intention of further improving the requirements for platforms not to remove content from recognised media outlets during the passage of the [Online Safety] Bill.

The Mark Allen Group has acquired from Chester-based Eton Events for an undisclosed sum its prime Regen Exhibition and Conference asset.

Bauer Media has today announced the expansion of Bauer Illuminate for the automotive market, allowing auto advertisers to accurately target audiences at different stages of their car buying journey, using unique and invaluable first-party data gathered from Bauer’s network of high quality, brand safe automotive digital platforms.

PPA has written for the New Statesman’s ‘Spotlight’ pamphlet on Online Safety, alongside Government Minister Chris Philp and Damian Collins MP, the Chair of the Joint Committee that scrutinised the draft legislation. Read the article in full here

PPA has compiled a Decodes resource on the Digital Markets Unit, explaining the planned new pro-competition regime for digital markets and the potential impacts for publishers.

Over 50 magazine publishers have participated in a brand new, freely-accessible digital resource page on the Exact Editions platform, which features over 200 fully-searchable articles about feminism and gender equality.