Germany’s biggest publisher sales houses unite to fight Google, Facebook and Amazon

Axel Springer and Funke Mediengruppe’s joint sales house Media Impact has joined forces with the joint sales house of fellow publishing juggernauts RTL Groupe and Gruner+Jahr to solidify an advertising alliance that sells the combined inventory of all four media groups. The post Germany’s biggest publisher sales houses unite to fight Google, Facebook and Amazon appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2019-05-28 04:01:59 UTC ]
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Pan Mac wins four-publisher fight for Payne

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Virago wins six-publisher fight for Grush's untold space story

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Publishing Leaders Issuing Warning over Amazon’s Market Power

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US Publishers, Authors, Booksellers Call Out Amazon’s ‘Concentrated Power’ in the Book Market

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