🧘 Onfolio Acquires Zen

Onfolio's latest acquisition, plus change is coming...

Hey happy new year 👋,

As you know, we have 10+ years of experience in building, buying, and selling media assets. We love this space and have the insights to bring you the best content every week. We also have the expertise to launch a marketplace, a potential option for us.

But what we don’t have is the time. Richard is now focussing on crypto with his DAI newsletter and Chris is focussing back on paid digital magazines.

But fear not, this newsletter will not only continue but will build on the foundations we have created. Next week we will introduce an awesome new owner.

Until then, here’s this week’s top digital media and market news…

Cheers!

📈 Market News

Literally media acquires MEL magazine (Link)

Robinhood subsidiary Sherwood Media acquires Chartr (Link)

Onfolio acquires marketing agency RevenueZen (Link)

Vinyl Group to acquire youth publisher Brag Media (Link)

Adobe and Figma agree to terminate merger agreement (Link)

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📰 Media News

What’s expected in 2024 for SEO (Link)

ViralNova founder on how to create a profitable newsletter (Link)

The state of email newsletters in 2024 by beehiiv (Link)

Fox partners with Polygon to release Verify protocol (Link)

How Google ‘perfected’ the web (Link)

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