The war for The Market Herald is not over

Welcome to a midweek edition of Unmade.

Today we focus on yesterday’s twist in the battle for control of The Market Herald, the parent company of ASX gossip forum Hot Copper, and more recently Gumtree, Carsguide and Autotrader.

If you haven’t checked out the website for out first conference RE:Made – Retail Media Unmade recently, it’s worth doing so. We’ve now published most of the program. The half-day conference is in just three weeks’ time. If you need to understand why everyone is talking about retail media, then take a look.

The Takeovers Panel gets involved

You don’t see many announcement from The Takeovers Panel involving media companies. I don’t remember seeing any over the last decade.