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Gossip mag confirms Bardella’s romance with Maria Carolina de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles – POLITICO

Gossip mag confirms Bardella’s romance with Maria Carolina de Bourbon des Deux-Siciles – POLITICO

Published by Sam Flores

Bardella’s press team did not respond to a request for a comment. Bardella and de Bourbon have been romantically linked since they were caught on camera leaving a media event together and taking the same car in January. Asked if he was in a relationship with de Bourbon later that month, Bardella said he was a happy man and no longer single, but that “my private life belongs to me.” Scrutiny of Bardella’s private life is certain to increase as France gets closer to next year’s presidential election. He is set to run as the National Rally candidate if Marine Le Pen’s embezzlement conviction denies her a spot on the ballot — and most polls show him comfortably winning the first round of the contest. Since bursting onto the political scene, Bardella has carefully crafted an image of himself as a self-made man who, as the child of blue-collar Italian immigrants, understands the French working class and can be their standard-bearer. His partner has led a much different lifestyle. A duchess by title, de Bourbon …

All you can read sales and auditing changes boost digital mag ABC figures

All you can read sales and auditing changes boost digital mag ABC figures

Published by Sam Flores

‘All you can read’ magazine services Apple News+, Readly, Kindle Unlimited and Cafeyn “All you can read” bundle services continue to dominate digital readership for UK magazines, new ABC figures show. Some 53% of 3.2 million digital magazine ‘sales’ of ABC-audited magazines in 2025 were from all you can read services – down slightly from 55% in 2024. This means issues of UK magazines that were read on paid-for bundling services like Apple News+, Readly, Kindle Unlimited and Cafeyn. ABC all you can read sales include any “digital copy that a consumer has purchased and viewed as part of a multi-publication package”. A view is defined as a minimum of one page of an issue being opened/served onto a device. Only one view per device per issue can be counted. Publishers do not receive the full cover price for these sales but instead receive a royalty fee based on a Spotify-style revenue share model. Five out of 116 magazines with digital editions audited by ABC received all of their digital readership from these all you …

Why UK mag giants have teamed up to offer digital advertising at scale

Why UK mag giants have teamed up to offer digital advertising at scale

Published by Sam Flores

Atria logo surrounded by its partnered titles including Good Food, Empire, Time Out Out and Men’s Health. Picture: PPA Six magazine publishers have jointly launched an advertising marketplace to provide brands with more scale for their campaigns. Bauer, Hearst UK, Immediate Media, Time Out, Hello and Future teamed up to launch Atria. The launch is designed to enable advertisers to deliver “premium” programmatic ads at scale across a portfolio of titles, rather than arranging multiple deals. Revenue will be allocated based on the impressions served on each individual site for each campaign. Cath Waller, managing director of advertising at Immediate and chair of PPA Magnetic which brought publishers together for the initiative, said Atria “should drive incremental advertising spend” by simplifying the planning and buying process. Brands on which advertisers can roll out campaigns include Time Out, Hello!, Elle, Grazia, Good Housekeeping, Empire, Radio Times, Cosmopolitan, Four Four Two, Esquire, Car, Cycling Weekend and BBC Top Gear. Atria’s partnered publishers have a combined monthly audience of 33 million or “48% of the UK’s online population”, …

At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…

At Psych Mag: How Your Brain Allegedly Invented God…

Published by Jenni Sidey

Earlier this month, a curious piece by Ohio State University psychologist and neuroscientist Gary Wenk appeared in Psychology Today. It purports to explain how “the brain” came to “invent the idea of gods” Image Credit: 1STunningART – Adobe Stock Psychology Today has been a mixed bag over the years. I have certainly appreciated Marilyn Mendoza’s sound work on death, dying, and near-death experiences there. That is a topic always at risk of descending into pop science nonsense. Maybe there is a rule that every so often the descent must be made. Dr. Wenk’s article so much fits the pattern of such articles that its best use is to illustrate their general characteristics. The pattern begins right up front: Key points ● Spirituality may be a specific processing capability that developed following a change in the brain’s wiring. ● This may have happened about 40,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens demonstrated changes in burial practice. ● Changes in specific brain regions may have evolved to encourage altruistic behaviors that benefit others. “When and How Did the …