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PPA Festival 2024

The PPA Festival 2024 is coming very soon. Save the date: 23 April, The Brewery, London


Spanning four stages and further breakouts, the PPA Festival will host more than 70 best-in class speakers. All set to share, enlighten, demystify, spark new ideas, and equip our teams to thrive. Expect an essential agenda that gets to the heart of the real issues facing specialist content providers today.

Attended by over 500 publishing professionals in UK consumer and business magazine media, this is the event of the year not to be missed. Tailored to those involved with content, marketing, product, sales, people, creative, data, audience growth, events, audio, digital, video, print, and more.

There will be issue-based sessions, unrivalled networking opportunities, and expert solutions from our event partners. Stay tuned, more information coming soon. In the meantime, you can register your interest here.


Companies in attendance


Testimonials

"Its such a good event to see such a diverse group of companies and attendees come together in one place for a festival of what we do as an industry."

Tom Bureau

CEO
Burda International

"Saj and the team put on an outstanding event. Really energising to hear and meet from so many. Its what the industry needs and great to have the PPA spearheading that."

Robert Jay

CMO
Southbank Research

"A room full of engaged and interested people listening to the incredible speakers wanting to share experiences to talk about learnings - a great day!"

Nina Wright

CEO
Harmsworth Media

"The PPA Festival has been one of the best events so far this year. I enjoyed the speaker sessions and the chance to network with industry peers. Looking forward to next year already!"

Richard Jamieson

Director - Media & Publishing
New Statesman Media Group

Strategic Partners:

Air Business
Pensord
Shutterstock Editorial

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Air Business
airbusiness.com

Established in 1986, Air Business is a market-leader in global mail, fulfilment, distribution and subscription management. As strategic partner of the Professional Publishers’ Association (PPA) since 2010, we are committed to being more than just a supplier. We are a visible and active supporter of the industries we serve.

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Pensord
pensord.com

Pensord is a specialist magazine printing company and the sole strategic partner of the Professional Publishers Association’s (PPA) Independent Publishers Network (IPN).

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Shutterstock Editorial
shutterstock.com/editorial

Shutterstock Editorial is a premier source of editorial images for the world’s media. This collection provides individual and enterprise customers globally a live feed of more than 40 million news, sports and entertainment images, along with a multi-decade archive of iconic images.

Event Partners:

Acorn Web Offset
AdvantageCS
Affino
Amply
ANT Marketing
Batch
CLA
ESco
evessio
InkDesk
Ipsos
Labrador CMS
Nativo
NLA Media Access
PA Media
PLS
United Robots
Vindicia
Workbooks
Zephr

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Acorn Web Offset
acornweb.co.uk

Acorn Web is the specialist A5 & A4 Magazine Printers that are passionate about reinvesting lower costs in cheaper prices. Along with excellent customer service we are the magazine printer to trust!

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AdvantageCS
www.advantagecs.com

AdvantageCS has been developing subscription management solutions for the information industry since 1979. The comprehensive functionality, adaptability, and scalability of our Advantage platform helps leading publishers, content distributors and membership organizations around the world manage their businesses more effectively in the present and be prepared for what’s next.

We are committed to delivering the technical resources you need to satisfy your customers’ thirst for content wherever they are. Content that brings them knowledge, fun, skill, health, empowerment---in short, a better life. We have a strong history of doing just that.

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Affino
affino.com

Social Commerce SaaS Solution. Affino 7 combines Publishing with Online Commerce, full Social Interaction, Marketing Automation, Sales Automation, Customer Incentivisation, Total Monetisation, Social Media, and deep, wide-ranging Analytics.

PPA Festival 2023

Amply
jobbio.com/

Jobbio’s Publisher Partner Programme is designed for niche publications looking to grow their audience, improve engagement and generate a new revenue stream.

PPA Festival 2023

ANT Marketing
antmarketing.com

Ant is the UK's leading independent supplier of Customer Acquisition and Customer Experience services. With a 24x7, multi-lingual service, we can talk to your customers and prospects in their language, any time of the day, and through whatever channel they choose.

We provide industry-leading support at all customer lifecycle stages - we can find you new customers, keep them and grow them - from our two multi-lingual, 24x7 centres in Sheffield. However ambitious your growth targets are, we will be able to help you achieve them.

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Batch
batch.com/

Batch is the next-generation Customer Engagement Platform for CRM Teams.

But what does that mean? It means we help modern marketers generate an average 600% ROI with a modern, vertically-integrated CRM platform that lets them 1. listen to their clients in real time and 2. orchestrate personalized user experiences at scale with push notifications, in-app messaging, web push and email.

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CLA
cla.co.uk

We are the Copyright Licensing Agency and we exist to simplify copyright for content users and copyright owners.
Our mission is to help customers legally access, copy and share the published content they need, while also making sure that copyright owners are paid fair royalties for the use of their work.

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ESco
esco.co.uk

ESco is a publishing services bureau where outstanding service with integrity is at the heart of everything we do. We have all the experience to manage your subscriptions, optimise your data and fulfil your mailings.

PPA Festival 2023

evessio
evessio.com

evessio is an event management software platform that enables you to host, manage and run all your events in one unified solution. A relative newcomer, Evessio has already been adopted by Dennis Publishing, Media 10, Metropolis Business Media, Dentsu Aegis Network, The PPA, FIPP, TES Global, companies in the Reed group and DVV Media International.

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InkDesk
inkdesk.com

We're an online marketplace platform seamlessly connecting niche publications with relevant brands, ready to collaborate on click-led sponsored content campaigns. Find your next scalable revenue stream now.
Use our marketplace platform to save time & easily collaborate with brands, track performance & get paid for results. Limited time and resources no longer means that your content can’t be creative, relevant, easy to acquire and sufficiently monetised.

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Ipsos
www.ipsos.com

At Ipsos we believe our clients need more than a data supplier, they need a partner who can produce accurate and relevant information and turn it into actionable truth.

This is why our passionately curious experts not only provide the most precise measurement, but shape it to provide True Understanding of Society, Markets and People.

To do this we use the best of science, technology and know-how
and apply the principles of security, simplicity, speed
and substance to everything we do.

So that our clients can act faster, smarter and bolder.

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Labrador CMS
www.labradorcms.com/

Labrador is an all-you-need web Content Management System (CMS) for creating and publishing great-looking digital publications and magazines in a fast and easy way.

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Nativo
nativo.com

Together, we are bridging the gap between content and advertising. Our team is reimagining an advertising ecosystem that is more impactful for advertisers and publishers, while also delivering an improved, more meaningful consumer experience.

PPA Festival 2023

NLA Media Access
nlamediaaccess.com

NLA Media Access (NLA) is a publisher-owned rights licensing and publisher services business with a core aim of supporting journalism.
We work on behalf of the UK’s newspaper and magazine publishers. We license organisations to make paper and digital copies of newspaper, magazine and news website content.

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PA Media
pa.media

PA Media is the UK’s leading provider of multimedia content and services.

We have reporters, photographers and video journalists delivering the top national news stories of the day, as well as breaking news from around the world. Our content reflects every aspect of life from News to Sport and Entertainment with a constant stream of stories, pictures, video, graphics and social media.

PPA Festival 2023

PLS
pls.org.uk

Publishers' Licensing Services’ (PLS, formerly Publishers Licensing Society) core business is to manage collective licensing. PLS has been serving the collective interests of publishers since 1981 and it is owned and governed by four publisher trade associations including the PPA.

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United Robots
unitedrobots.ai

United Robots is a Swedish tech company. What started as a proposition back in 2015 has evolved into a band of robots writing stories based on any data you like in any language you like.

We’ve created our own, unique Content-as-a-Service product based on data science, AI and NLG (Natural Language Generation). A giant content factory, delivering thousands of pieces of automated texts, images, graphics, maps, metadata and more to our clients every single day.

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Vindicia
vindicia.com

We enrich e-commerce connections and transform them to feel simple and personal anytime, anywhere.

At Vindicia, we offer the industry’s #1 failed payment recovery solution. We take the work out of subscriptions, so you can delight your customers, build and retain long-lasting relationships, and maximize recurring revenue and lifetime value. Our payment recovery solution goes far beyond standard authentication tools to automatically resolve up to 50% of declined card transactions. Fueled by two decades of data intelligence and deep payment expertise, we help you launch, scale, engage, delight, and retain your customers. We understand that acquisition is not the end game, and customers are not just rows on your balance sheet. Your customers expect seamless, fresh, and delightful experiences. That’s why we help remove friction and empower you to build and retain long-term customer relationships.

PPA Festival 2023

Workbooks
workbooks.com

Workbooks core CRM services extend beyond sales, marketing and customer services to include powerful marketing automation, event management, order management and fulfilment, invoicing and supplier management functionalities – at a price which is typically 50-70% less than alternatives like Salesforce or Microsoft.

Workbooks unites the entire organisation around data and processes, promoting teamwork and collaboration. It provides a single 360-degree view of customers and the information is accessible to all customer touchpoints. Productivity and revenue increase, operations are streamlined, insightful decisions are made and the business is better equipped to differentiate against its competition.

PPA Festival 2023

Zephr
www.zephr.com

Zephr is the dynamic Subscription Experience Platform built for the effective optimisation and personalisation of the user experience, in order to drive conversion. With a best-in-breed solution, Zephr combines an intuitive user interface and plug-and-play integrations to let commercial and technical teams develop powerful subscription relationships and deliver personalised experiences for every customer at the right time for the right price. Unlock your subscription revenue potential with Zephr. For more information check out www.zephr.com.

Media Partners:

InPublishing
Media Voices Podcast
Press Gazette

PPA Festival 2023

InPublishing
inpublishing.co.uk

InPublishing serves the UK newspaper, magazine and online publishing community, through its bi-monthly magazine, weekly email newsletter and website.

PPA Festival 2023

Media Voices Podcast
voices.media/

Media Voices is a weekly look at all the news and views from across the media world, featuring leading figures from media and publishing businesses. The team behind the podcast take a common sense approach to media analysis, from the practices of journalism to deep dives into publisher business models.

The Media Voices team have recorded live at media events, featured in numerous roundups of the best industry podcasts, and have interviewed an impressive roster of guests from top organisations such as Mic, The Economist, Facebook, CNN, The Times, Refinery29, the FT, and more.

PPA Festival 2023

Press Gazette
pressgazette.co.uk

As well as all the essential news, Press Gazette’s content pillars include audience and business data, tech platforms and their relationships with publishers, interviews with media leaders and others who are working to create a sustainable future for media, and the weekly podcast The Future of Media Explained. Press Gazette reaches more than 350,000 readers a month via pressgazette.co.uk, and a further 20,000 through its daily and weekly newsletters.

PPA Festival 2024

The PPA Festival 2024 is coming very soon. Save the date: 23 April, The Brewery, London


Spanning four stages and further breakouts, the PPA Festival will host more than 70 best-in class speakers. All set to share, enlighten, demystify, spark new ideas, and equip our teams to thrive. Expect an essential agenda that gets to the heart of the real issues facing specialist content providers today.

Attended by over 500 publishing professionals in UK consumer and business magazine media, this is the event of the year not to be missed. Tailored to those involved with content, marketing, product, sales, people, creative, data, audience growth, events, audio, digital, video, print, and more.

There will be issue-based sessions, unrivalled networking opportunities, and expert solutions from our event partners. Stay tuned, more information coming soon. In the meantime, you can register your interest here.

Companies in attendance


Testimonials

"Its such a good event to see such a diverse group of companies and attendees come together in one place for a festival of what we do as an industry."

Tom Bureau

CEO
Burda International

"Saj and the team put on an outstanding event. Really energising to hear and meet from so many. Its what the industry needs and great to have the PPA spearheading that."

Robert Jay

CMO
Southbank Research

"A room full of engaged and interested people listening to the incredible speakers wanting to share experiences to talk about learnings - a great day!"

Nina Wright

CEO
Harmsworth Media

"The PPA Festival has been one of the best events so far this year. I enjoyed the speaker sessions and the chance to network with industry peers. Looking forward to next year already!"

Richard Jamieson

Director - Media & Publishing
New Statesman Media Group

The PPA Festival is supported by

Acorn Web Offset
AdvantageCS
Affino
Air Business
Amply
ANT Marketing
Batch
CLA
ESco
evessio
InkDesk
InPublishing
Ipsos
Labrador CMS
Media Voices Podcast
Nativo
NLA Media Access
PA Media
Pensord
PLS
Press Gazette
Shutterstock Editorial
United Robots
Vindicia
Workbooks
Zephr


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