Bauer Media has outlined changes to 10 brands in its UK Publishing portfolio following the completion of a comprehensive review of its operations, originally announced on 18 May.

PPA Innovation Lab, in association with SPRYLAB

Tom Gale, Senior Optimisation Manager at House of Kaizen, provides his thoughts on the way forward for performance marketers / brands to manage subscription anxiety and prevent customer churn during these difficult times.

Time Out Group, comprising two divisions, Time Out Media and Time Out Market will be providing curated content to Apple Maps through a new feature announced at WWDC today and coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac later this year.

Melinda Stevens, Editor in Chief of Condé Nast Traveller UK & Conde Nast Traveler US, has announced the appointment of Juliet Kinsman as Sustainability Editor, Conde Nast Traveller UK. Juliet is a sustainable luxury travel writer, author, broadcaster, consultant and Founder of Bouteco.co, and will bring her extensive expertise to her role at the brand

To celebrate summer, heat has joined forces with monthly beauty box subscription brand GLOSSYBOX to launch the heat Summer Box.

Last week, Theresa Villiers, MP for Chipping Barnet, visited the Gold Key Media warehouse to meet MD Chris Horn and support the distribution GKM are providing to frontline NHS staff in conjunction with Project Wingman.

PA Media Group, the news and information business, has appointed Polly Curtis as Managing Director of its flagship brand, PA Media (PA), the national news agency for the UK and Ireland.

Time Out London partners with Uber Eats as part of Time Out’s Love Local campaign.

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On 12 June 2020, the Government finally published full details of how its new concept of ‘flexible furloughing’ will work from 1 July until 31 October 2020. If you are planning to utilise the scheme during this period, you may want to take a deep breath and be prepared for some serious head scratching – they have not made it easy.

The Creative Industries Federation has today warned of a “cultural catastrophe” as newly commissioned research from Oxford Economics reveals that the UK’s creative industries are on the brink of devastation.

This week, Scottish Government confirmed that legislation passed to extend the scope of the business rate holiday to include “news publishing” businesses will be defined in a narrow fashion, restricting relief exclusively to newspaper publishers.

The world of digital publishing has continued to be extremely competitive. Ultimately, today’s most successful publishers are investing more in reader engagement than on reader acquisition.

The ASA is announcing the introduction of a UK Scam Ad Alert system in conjunction with the world’s biggest digital advertising and social media platforms, including Facebook and Google. This follows the completion of a successful three month trial of the initiative.

Last week, PPA repeated our call for the extension of the business rates relief scheme to include publishers. Since the start of the COVID-19 crisis we have called for government to extend the scope of the business rate holiday for hospitality, retail and leisure business to include publishers.

Collingwood Advisory has completed a survey of Founders and CEOs of independent media businesses  worldwide to understand their challenges, and priorities through the Covid-19 pandemic.