Tag Archives: Catena Media

With the working climate constantly changing, Jesper Søgaard, Founder and CEO of Better Collective, spoke to SBC about how affiliates can ensure stability for the forthcoming future, as well as how things have changed over recent years. After being crowned as the affiliate of the year at the SBC Awards 2017, the Better Collective CEO stated the group “are really grateful …

Stockholm-listed industry affiliate network Catena Media has confirmed that it will buy distressed football analysis and news portal Squawka and its related assets. Last November, Squawka a popular football portal with a reported 4 million unique monthly users revealed that it was in financial difficulties, placing itself into administration. Squawka’s website and social media assets have not been updated since …

Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network Catena Media continues its M&A expansion confirming that it has agreed to acquire German focused sports affiliate Baybets Ltd. Updating the market, Catena governance informs that it has agreed an initial payment of €26.5 million to takeover Baybets’ 50 website portfolio. Furthermore, its acquisition deal will have an attachment of a further €65 million in …

Ahead of its Capital Markets Day (6 December), Stockholm-listed industry affiliate network Catena Media has announced that it has reset its enterprise long-term financial targets, as corporate governance seeks to extract optimal value for its investors. Updating stakeholders, Catena’s Board has set the enterprise target of generating a group EBITDA in excess of €100 million (£90 million) by the year …

Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network Catena Media has announced that it has entered the financial services marketing sector by acquiring Malta-based network Beyondbits Media Ltd. Catena governance expects to complete its outright acquisition of Beyondbits Media by the end of November 2017. The company will pay an upfront €9.25 million transaction in which  €2.75 million paid through Catena Media share placement. The Stockholm-listed enterprise has …

Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network, Catena Media has detailed its ‘best ever trading quarter‘ as the company homes in on full-year 2017 corporate targets. Presenting its first trading update as a Nasdaq Stockholm main market enterprise, Catena would record Q3 2017 (period ending 30 September) corporate revenues of €17.2 million up 61% on corresponding Q3 2016’s €10.7 million. Focusing on …

Updating the market, Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network Catena Media has informed that it has agreed to acquire legacy poker resource portal PokerScout (PokerScout.com) and all its related assets Catena management details that its latest acquisition is ‘made in connection with the passage of gaming legislation in the US state of Pennsylvania, which will open a new market for regulated …

Issuing a corporate statement, Stockholm-listed industry affiliate network Catena Media has informed that Chief Executive Officer Robert Andersson has departed as leader with immediate effect. The company has moved to install Henrik Persson Ekdahl as ‘acting Chief Executive’. Ekdahl a former Betsson AB Executive and current partner at Malta-based venture capital firm Optimizer Invest sits as a board advisor for Catena …

Stockholm-listed industry affiliate marketing network Catena Media has confirmed the appointment of Åsa Hillsten as its new Head of Investor Relations & Communications. A seasoned corporate communications specialist, Hillsten joins Catena’s senior executive team having most recently served as Chief Communications Officer for Swedish ‘digital bank’ Collector (2016-2017). Catena governance informs that Hillsten will officially join the company on January …

A record number of delegates, exhibitors and top-level industry speakers attended the second edition of the Betting on Sports conference, held from 12-15 September at the Olympia Conference Centre in London. There were more than 1,300 registrations, a 100% increase on the number for the inaugural edition of the event and a 30% increase on attendance from this year’s biggest …