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Archant sells off specialist titles as owner readies sale — pressgazette.co.uk

Archant's private equity owners Rcapital signalled a sale late in January, just 18 months after buying the local news publisher. Last week, ahead of any wholesale sell-off (rumoured to be to Newsquest), the group disposed of a series of specialist magazine titles to Kelsey Media.

Kelsey’s portfolio is mainly in automotive, farming, active living and hobbies. The acquisition list includes Canal Boat, Pilot, Agricultural Trader and Country Smallholding. The sale leaves Archant with another 10 specialist magazines.

In a statement to staff, Archant CEO Lorna Willis said, “Specialist content is Kelsey’s core business hence this is an excellent fit for these titles which are much loved within their specialist communities. I have no doubt they will go from strength to strength.” I'm just relieved that the Your Chickens brand has found a forever home.

Twitter steadily grows its audience as it shifts content strategy — www.thedrum.com

Over the past year, Twitter has been diversifying its revenue streams in recognition of the changing economics of creating content. Its latest results demonstrate the benefits of that diversification, reporting $5 billion in annual revenue, up 37% for the year. The numbers see it holding steady on its target of 315 million average daily active users and $7.5 billion in revenue by the end of 2023.

5 non-publishing industries with big ad revenue potential — www.adexchanger.com

Amazon's just announced £31 billion in ad revenues for 2021, and just in case you thought that was some kind of a Bezos-inspired fluke, this piece in AdExchanger lists all the other online retailers that are lining up to steal your lunch. The big takeaway for publishers is... sort out your first-party data.

Netflix orders docuseries on crypto laundering couple — www.theverge.com

Chris called it! We spoke about this truly bizarre story on the podcast this week and Mr Sutcliffe wondered just how long it would be until the Netflix documentary came along. It seems that the tale of a Forbes-contributing rapper called Razzlekhan laundering $4.5 billion worth of Bitcoin with her husband was just too tempting for Netflix to wait. Move over Joe Exotic.

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The Fix Founding Editor Parusinski on cracking the media management puzzle — voices.media

On this week’s episode we hear from Jakub Parusinski, founding editor at The Fix, a trade magazine for media professionals. He and Peter spoke about Jakub’s background across journalism and management consulting, and how that has informed the nuts and bolts approach the Fix takes to ‘cracking the media management puzzle’.

Shortlist 2022 - The Publisher Podcast Awards — publisherpodcastawards.com

Last week we revealed the shortlist for 2022’s Publisher Podcast Awards. Over 120 podcasts have made the list, and it really does reflect the best of the best in the industry. Now, stand by for news of how to get tickets to our actual, real-life awards ceremony in April. 🤩🤩🤩