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Vice Media group seeks to sell itself

2023-01-30T19:53:04.486Z


ANALYSIS – The media group, which relies on a free economic model for its online site, is having difficulty monetizing its audience.


Vice Media is for sale, in a fragile market for media across the Atlantic.

In search of a new lease of life, he is now negotiating behind the scenes for his takeover for around 1.5 billion dollars.

A valuation well below the 5.7 billion advanced in 2017, during the last major fundraising of the media group.

More recently, during its failed IPO attempt two years ago, it was valued at around 3 billion…

“Naturally, it is the investors who have put in the pot in recent years who now want to get out

,” explains a good connoisseur of the file.

In recent years, Vice Media had indeed succeeded in attracting several prestigious investors.

Starting with the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, who invested nearly 70 million dollars, the Disney empire or the Fortress Investment Group fund.

Launched in the mid-1990s as a Canadian magazine, before moving to New York to set up its news site in…

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