A & N Media trades death announcements business for share in iAnnounce
DMGT’s A & N Media has announced that it is ceding LastingTribute.co.uk deaths notice s site to iAnnounce in return for a minority stake in the company.
iAnnounce acquires the Lasting Tribute site and with it access to DMGT’s ThisIs regional network of sites which creates a single market of 3 million local occasions notices to be provided by iAnnounce. iAnnounce already works with other major U.K. publishers such as Archant, Johnston Press,Newsquest, and Trinity Mirror.
According to iAnnounce founder Alex Stitt the deal creates the largest online family notice business in Europe. Already active in Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, and Russia iAnnounce now has plans to expand to Germany, Italy, and the US over the next few months.
Mike Rowley, Northcliffe Media managing director, said: “Northcliffe Media is looking forward to working with iAnnounce to continue to offer a credible and user-friendly platform for all its announcements, which continues to be an important reader service in the newspapers and on our websites.”
DMGT folds Associated Northcliffe Digital into A & N; Titus out
AND's LocalPeople network reaches 100 site mark
Associated Northcliffe Digital, the consumer digital arm of DMGT, has reached 100 sites in the hyperlocal LocalPeople network within its first year and aims to double that within 12 months.
LocalPeople sites feature user-generated content and community publishers as well as content from existing Northcliffe titles where they exist. The sites also serve to take the company into areas where no Northcliffe title has a base and are all run with a community focus and make their money from local ads sold by a dedicated team of 12 reps.
“Our focus is providing small businesses with a way of reaching a really local audience” said Roland Bryan, managing director of LocalPeople. “The targeted nature of our sites means that our advertisers can achieve this at reasonable cost with low wastage.”
According to the company the network has 330,000 unique users a month.
AND/DMGT acquires job posting provider Broadbean
Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), the digital consumer division of DMGT and owner of owner of the British job board Jobsite.co.uk and the Jobs Group, is acquiring Broadbean Technology, a European provider of online job advert distribution and response tracking solutions for the recruitment industry. Broadbean will keep its brand name and current management team.
Broadbean Technology is the 14th company to be acquired by AND as part of the company’s ongoing strategy to “build a leading position in the core classified verticals of recruitment, property, motors and dating.”
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