The founder of Rolling Stone is selling 49 per cent of the iconic magazine to an Asian billionaire's son.

The Overseas Investment Office has granted consent to the proposed merger of media companies NZME and Fairfax NZ.

COMMENT: Growth in online advertising is creating more demand for moving pictures.

On the Demand.film platform, one person requests a screening at a local cinema and then promotes the screening through social media.

Fairfax and NZME are seeking Commerce Commission authorisation to merge operations in New Zealand.

COMMENT: Film Commission chief Dave Gibson is half-way through what he has insisted was a single five-year term.

Media companies NZME and Fairfax NZ have released further details of their proposed merger to the NZX this morning.

The husbands of the Real Housewives of Auckland are power players in banking, property, marketing and finance.

Four new digital stations including popular radio brands Radio Hauraki, Newstalk ZB, Coast and The Hits are available on iHeartRadio New Zealand.

MediaWorks has an exclusive deal with Vevo that allows them to sell advertising around video content that globally attracts 18.7 billion views.

Selected articles from the New Zealand Herald will soon be available in Chinese on a new website.

Newly-listed NZME said its operating earnings improved slightly over the six months to June.

COMMENT: The Bravo TV channel and MediaWorks are pleased with a promising start for their fly-on-the-wall show Real Housewives of Auckland.

Your days of downloading the latest Game of Thrones episodes might be over if Google has anything to do with it.

Netflix has warned that its Australian customers could face delays in getting new content added to their service. Here's why.

The Commerce Commission has updated its timeframe on delivering its decision on the proposed merger of NZME and Fairfax.

Free-to-air TV won't face such dramatic upheaval as the print media, believes TVNZ head of television Jeff Latch.

Bonds has launched a bizarre new ad in Australia in which men agonise over the impact of having children on their physiques.

The injunction sought to limit the way in which Fairfax was using video from the Games on its website.

A High Court judge will release his decision this afternoon on Sky TV's injunction against Fairfax's use of Olympic video.

It's old news that some New Zealand media companies are no longer treating each other as the enemy.

Fairfax has questioned if Sky TV has the grounds to bring an injunction against it over the use of Olympic Games video.

Fairfax wants the dispute over its use of Sky TV's Rio Olympics footage to go to a full trial.

This is why advertisers are happy to spend the big bucks on their Olympics advertising.

Sky TV tells the High Court Fairfax's use of Rio Olympics video clips online is "exploitation", as the broadcaster seeks an injunction.

Fairfax Media says it expects to hold a minority shareholding in the merged company planned with NZME.

Sky TV has gone to the High Court seeking an injunction against Fairfax Media over the use of Rio Olympics video.

Fairfax is looking to extend its business beyond content provision with a new venture to launch a fibre-only ISP.

Augusta Capital reaped $2.9 million in fees from its biggest property syndication deal on the purchase of the NZME Central complex

COMMENT: It's another dangerous step toward shrinking the view of the world people receive through the social network.